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Lets all share our spider stories.

Now I have what I like to call intelligent pussy fear, if I know I'm in now danger I really can't find something frightening, I could ride any rollercoaster and not even be slightly afraid because I know I'm in no risk to be hurt, but I am overly afraid of anything That I know CAN hurt me, even slightly. Spiders for example, I know I don't have any super venom spiders in my house (Probably...) but if one crawls on me I get really scared that it will bite me and hurt like shit, so I bite down a million years of monkey instinct and carfully try to brush the little bastard off, but some memorys stand out. Here are a few. First ones the longest.
>> Anonymous
>>317064
irrational fears are irrational, unless it's a fucking big bastard then it's ok to shit bricks
>> Anonymous
>>317074
I don't fear the spider, I fear the pain a spider will bring me, I don't mind harvestmen walking all over me, but if they look like they have venom I get scared.
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last time a spider scared me, I caught that fucker and set it on fire

pic related.
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I live in Australia and Huntsman spiders are quite common. There's been a couple of times where I have woken up and seen a huntsman on the wall about a metre and a half above my head.

They're big but they're not enormous. The ones I've seen tend to range from about the width of a cassette tape to the width of a CD.

Huntsman spiders are pussies. You have to pretty much stick your finger in their mouth before they would bite you. We once had one living in the letterbox but it never bit anyone.

My mother said she once got one in her hair. Didn't bite her.

Funny incident happened when I was watching the remake of the movie Psycho, unaware there was a Huntsman hiding behind the TV. It was just at the shower scene where it decided to suddenly crawl across the screen. I was sitting there going "Oh, this is so not scary HOLY HELL oh it's just a spider lol."
>> Anonymous
>>317081
Yeah, they're actually pretty fun to play with. There was one on my kitchen table once so I sat down with my breakfast, picked up a pencil and lightly poked it, it'd attack and bite the pencil pretty furiously. It left huge chew type marks in it. I then finished breakfast and got a piece of cardboard and a bowl and put him outside.

They must hurt like a bitch if they bite you.
>> Anonymous
>>317104

Lol. Well, that was a quite representative story. Spiders in general aren't raving lunatics who run around attacking everything possible. Sure, they'll try to defend themselves if you hurt them, but even mice do that.
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I remember one day back in high school there was a spider hanging from the door and since it was English class I had nothing better to do than watch it make its way to the floor. After a while someone else noticed it and started a whole chain reaction of people freaking out so the teacher walks over and crushes it. I was right by the door so I could hear the crunching noise as she stepped on it. I felt nauseous for the rest of the class.
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We have a bunch spiders roaming our house, the common house spider kind. Quite large creatures, but entirely harmless. One day not long ago I found one in the bathroom sink, obviously having hard time getting out of there. I offered it my finger and it climbed onboard. I ferried it out of the bathroom to safer nearby room and let it climb from my hand to the wall. It never even crossed my mind it might bite me. I've handled them I don't know how often and they've never even tried.

Picture related, it's one of them on the hall floor.
>> Anonymous
>>317081
Ohhhhh my god. I live in Texas and have killed a couple small rattlesnakes and cottonmouths in my yard, but these spiders scare the CRAP out of me. You had one in your mailbox?

Thanks for the nightmare fuel, Anon.
>> Anonymous
>>317142
I can't believe you touch them. I hate spiders so much they are just scary. Usually when I find one in my house I get a sheet of paper for it to crawl on and carry it outside while praying to god it doesn't start crawling towards me.
>> Anonymous
one i was putting something into the microwave
a spider came out
>> Anonymous
During my first year of college, I had a...quarter sized...or so fuzzy white jumping spider that lived in my messenger bag. I gave him shelter, he ate the bugs that tended to climb on the outside of my pack during the 4 hour wait before my last class.

He's get out and move around the bench I would sit at, till some fuck decided to sit across from me then squish it with a book when they saw him.
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I am afraid of spiders, though I know it's mostly irrational. I had a nest of black widows in my backyard, and my brother always used to tell me how he was going to gather them up one day and put them on me while I slept. Also, pretty fukn unnerving to be taking a shower and have one crawl into your tub... A more vulnerable situation I can't imagine! Those fuckers can jump >_<. I saw a brown recluse once, but I just stepped on it. Squish goes the speeder. I still skeeve like a bitch when spiders come around me, though!
>> Anonymous
>>318964
D:
>> Anonymous
>>318964

Hey! One of those used to live in my computer desk, he was more half-dollar sized though, and he had blue markings. It would sometimes just stand upside down on the top part of the desk staring at me with those big old-school VW bug eyes. Occasionally he'd come down to the actual desk part and I'd chase him away with the tip of my finger, he'd hide behind my USB drive and wait a few moments before peeking around then come back towards me, sometimes with his front legs held up in the air.

Never found a dead body, not sure where he went, haven't seen more like him either.
>> Anonymous
>>318964
>>318970

Sounds like a Phidippus mystaceus, a bit larger than I've seen/photographed them though.