How do you go to sleep after seeing a spider like this crawl under your bed?

[squealpiggy]

I walk into my room, and from the hallway light I saw one that looked like one of those as big as a small child's hand scurry from my bathroom to my bed about as fast as I could run, or faster.

I took out my flashlight and looked everywhere but I couldn't find it. Who knows where that mother****er is. It's faster than I am, there's no way i could catch it.

Looks like a wolf spider. Nothing to worry about. All they want is a cool dark place to rest, to be left alone to hunt and to lay their eggs in your brain.

Did I say "lay their eggs in your brain"? I meant "be friends always".

[ßringer]

Never understood the irrational fear most people have for insects and/or arachnids, it's just never been in me to be afraid of them. I thought it was pretty common for little boys to grow up fascinated by the "icky" stuff that made little girls wet themselves?

I vividly remember gently handling a black widow I found in the tool shed when I was a boy. And yeah, I knew how "dangerous" it was before I even approached it.

Spiders have the worst PR agent in the animal kingdom.

[Tay Roc]

At the time I was in Dallas. We lived right next to a creek. So there was a f**k load of spiders and ****. One time I walked out at night to get something on the back porch, and when I flicked on the light I saw a big ass snake tail under the grill (startled his ass) and he hauled ass into the bushes. Freaked me the f**k out. And I actually like snakes, but stepping within two feet of a possible water moccasin....ain't my thing, bruh.

[Sweet Pea 50]

Man, fuck this thread.

Eight legged, googly eyed bastards.

May they burn in hell.

[-MAKAVELLI-]

You should let him bite you.

An Asian Spiderman? How cute would that be?!

shooting noodles from his wrists...that would be awesome

[ßringer]

That's one snake I wouldn't mind stepping on...with my mouth.

[New England]

Never understood the irrational fear most people have for insects and/or arachnids, it's just never been in me to be afraid of them. I thought it was pretty common for little boys to grow up fascinated by the "icky" stuff that made little girls wet themselves?

I vividly remember gently handling a black widow I found in the tool shed when I was a boy. And yeah, I knew how "dangerous" it was before I even approached it.

Spiders have the worst PR agent in the animal kingdom.

what is irrational about fearing a black widow spider?

[ßringer]

what is irrational about fearing a black widow spider?

The fact that black widows and brown recluses kill an average of 6 people per year annually in the United States.

Diarrhea kills more people per year than that.

[New England]

The fact that black widows and brown recluses kill an average of 6 people per year annually in the United States.

Diarrhea kills more people per year than that.

and you recognize that that number would be significantly higher if they weren't feared?

[[ DUBBZZ ]]

The fact that black widows and brown recluses kill an average of 6 people per year annually in the United States.

Diarrhea kills more people per year than that.

Dang!

I've made some people sick with my diarrhea, but never killed anyone with it.