Sooo...the summer Spider season is starting again

[Noxia]

Irrational phobias are not the same as being scared for a 'proper' reason. I know the Spiders I encounter here can't hurt me (rare exceptions) but it doesn't stop me sweating whenever I see one.
I have a size limit that decides if ones I see live or die. My girlfriend can get close enough to capture them in glasses but she wont kill them so we make a good team.

 

[Dr.EM]

I don't normally hoover the ceilings, but may have to make an exception. Just can't get comfortable in this room knowing that is up there...

 

[AmyS]

Aww don't hoover them up, it's a horrible way for them to die

I hate spiders but could never kill one.

 

[Something Else]

I try to capture the big ones and put them outside. I can't relax if there is one in the room but I can deal with them. Unfortunately my job involves crawling through small dark and warm tunnels in 60+ year old buildings so its awash with spiders.

 

[jas72]

Even my wife isn't bothered by them.
A couple of weeks ago she pointed out a monster right above our heads in the lampshade and it had built a web but a few days later I did remove him because I don't think he would have had much luck there.
Funnily enough me, the wife and eldest daughter have zero fear of them but the youngest daughter is petrified even though she was brought up like the eldest.

Translation:

We're all flaming mad apart from 1 daughter who is apparently sane although she was brought up in the same house.

 

[Yaayuh!]

In my garden

Spoiler

I had 3 separate "collections" or "gatherings" of spiders exactly like this in and on my shed. There's thousands of them!!!

 

[schumi84]

I had a lovely garden spider make its web right across my front door so when I opened it he was sat in the middle at about chest height, thankfully.

I don't kill spiders, however I feel that if the web had been at head height I may well have gone into my boxing stance.

 

[Mat]

Our offices at work are surrounded by tall bushes etc, with the some either side of the doors, so being the tallest in the office I unfortunately tend to be the one who gets the webs in my hair/on my face :/

At home I place all spiders outside unless they take me completely by surprise and look as though they're making a bee-line for somewhere I won't find them. In that case it's goodnight Vienna unfortunately.

 

[TrixiBuG]

I have this guy on the outside of my window at work

Spoiler

He is called Timothy and seems to have a healthy appetite for a spider that lives 15 stories up

 

[dan958]

Quite a large one was in my room climbing over some dirty clothes I left on the floor. Nope.

 

[Akagi]

You realise that arachnophobia is a very common phobia, and some of the people who seem genuinely scared of them probably suffer from it?

Phobias are irrational fears. Just because someone has a fear of spiders doesn't mean they are a "wuss" and insulting these people gets incredibly wearing, boring and annoying. Use some common sense.

Would you call a claustrophobic a wuss because they can't stand in a locked cupboard without having a panic attack? Would you call an acrophobic a wuss because they can't stand on that foot thick sheet of glass at the top of the Spinnaker Tower?

It is pointless. Calling someone who is scared of spiders pathetic, and holding one in your hand to show it isn't dangerous won't help.

Chasing one of those people with a big spider in your hand is like me chasing you with a loaded shotgun and a crazy look in my eyes.

 

[Nix]

Exactly. They sit there for ages. Waiting. Waiting. Then..... AHBLOOBLOblOBLOBLOBLOHBLUHBLOHBLUHBLOUHBLohBLUH!" (that's the scary noise I imagine it makes when it runs).

Can't. Stop. Laughing.

 

[Father Ted]

If you see a spider running towards you gently blow on it. The don't like the air currents and will immediately change direction and head off the opposite way. Simples.

 

[Mat]

Quite a large one was in my room climbing over some dirty clothes I left on the floor. Nope.

One fell out of the shorts I was just about to put on yesterday

(reference my previous comment about being caught by surprise)

 

[dan958]

One fell out of the shorts I was just about to put on yesterday

(reference my previous comment about being caught by surprise)

I have it programmed into my brain to shake everything before I put it on . (including shoes) I had a similar incident before. Never again.

 

[XeNoN89]

If you see a spider running towards you gently blow on it. The don't like the air currents and will immediately change direction and head off the opposite way. Simples.

In b4 spider jumps up and bites your face off

 

[Grimley]

Get some daddy-long-legs: they eat the big hairy housespiders.

Its the other way round methinks. Nothing wrong with a garden spider feasting on an annoying daddy long legs every September.

 

[Edrof]

Its the other way round methinks. Nothing wrong with a garden spider feasting on an annoying daddy long legs every September.

It seems strange and illogical, but those spindly little DLLs do eat housespiders far larger than themselves. The first time I saw it happen I couldn't quite believe it.

I can provide photographic proof if you like, courtesy of my garage.

 

[Cosimo]

In b4 spider jumps up and bites your face off

That's only in Oz.

 

[~>Dg<~]

That's only in Oz.

my mate has licenses to keep some of the spiders he has.

some are as big as a dinner plate

he takes the skin they shed and mounts them in a frame you cant tell difference looks ace.


generally i leave spiders alone especially big ones . in uk they took some skill not to get squashed