A spider just crawled down my neck..... - Page 2

CharmedHour · #16 08-05-2008, 06:28 PM

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Originally Posted by SuzeQuze

When traveling in Africa this huge spider was crawling on the mosquito net around my bed. I flicked it across the room knowing it would still somehow get me. I woke up with a swollen hand that was very itchy. The bastard came back and bit me while I slept!

That makes the hair on my arms stand up!

iamnotafraid · #17 07-20-2010, 11:43 PM

An unfortunate update.........

Tonight while watching Seinfeld, I see this spider run
across my bed. For some reason I'm wide awake again. Oh,
the spider didn't make it.

jannieC · #18 07-21-2010, 06:04 AM

I can't read the replies and I almost fainted at the tarantula photo. Just wanted to come and offer support to iamnotafraid.

paleshadow · #19 07-21-2010, 07:31 AM

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Originally Posted by GODDESS6

they eventually found it, & it was huge when it went missing it had doubled in size~ i always wondered what it was feasting on during it's adventure out to make it so huge

~

Maybe that's a different spider and the first one is still at large!

I just watched a story on the cbs morning show about bed bugs, so I'm already itchy.

ButterCookie · #20 07-21-2010, 07:46 AM

WHY WOULD YOU GUYS POST AND QUOTE A PHOTO OF A TARANTULA?!

*dies*

jaycee · #21 07-21-2010, 09:06 AM

Am I really the only one here that likes all creatures great and small?

Here's a fun story for the faint-of-heart - once I walked into my bedroom and noticed a huntsman spider (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntsman_spider) in the top-left corner of my room. I tried to sweep it up with a dustpan, but it jumped away and ran under my bed. Two hours later I cared to mention it to my mum and stepdad, which subsequently resulted in them tearing my room apart in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to find it. (Fortunately the only private possessions I have are a pair of disposable latex gloves that I keep strategically hidden in the loungeroom.) My room was later restored, and several hours later I went to bed. During the night I turned the light back on for some reason or other, and I happened to notice the spider on the ceiling in a different corner of my room. Once more I tried to sweep it up, and once more it jumped, this time in an unsuccessful attempt to land on my bed. It then ran on my bookshelf, and I was able to trap it and throw it outside. Despite knowing I removed it, for a few nights after my mum couldn't sleep in the room opposite me, and instead opted to sleep with David and keep him awake all night with her snoring.

All that said, I naturally hate any bugs crawling on me, and can instinctively flinch at seeing what I think are spiders (a prime example being, of all things, a small brass door-hinge of a cupboard door near my bedroom appearing like a spider in low light... it gets me every time!

).

holidayroad · #22 07-21-2010, 09:19 AM

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Originally Posted by CharmedHour

Oh! That just scared the sh*t out of me!

I am so afraid of spiders! A couple of months ago me and my friend went out shopping and got ice cream, well we were on our way back to my house and I felt something crawl accross my hand, and there was this big honkin ass spider! I gasped really loud, threw my feet up on the dash board and reese cup bits went everywhere! So of course my friend screamed, we turned down a side street and got out of the car, and we couldn't find the spider!
I was shaking my shirt out, and my hair, and of course it was dark, so we couldn't see jack. Some guy was standing on the pourch and he walked over to us and asked us if we were ok.

We never did find the spider!

The other day, my husband and a co-worker were coming home from work. All of the sudden, this girl is in front of them in the road, blood running down her face and yelling for help. It turns out she ran her car off the road into a creek, absolutely totalling her car, could have been killed.......all because she was trying to get a spider off of her!!!!!

jannieC · #23 07-21-2010, 02:33 PM

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Originally Posted by jaycee

Am I really the only one here that likes all creatures great and small?

My husband feels this way. He will not kill anything, period. I've never had to test him with a cockroach, but I think he would probably feel badly about killing one. Any creepy crawler in our house gets a safe escort out the door. It's one of the things I admire and love most about him.

estranged4life · #24 07-21-2010, 05:16 PM

black widow outside on one of the trees in my yard...Cute lil' killer.

I have seen not as many scorpions this summer as usual (Only one thus far) but plenty of rattlesnakes. I'm not afraid of snakes, spiders, etc.

JWS · #25 07-21-2010, 07:07 PM

I was stung by a bee at the Hollywood Bowl last night. Good thing I'm not alergic.

MissLadyLoki · #26 07-21-2010, 07:18 PM

I go into a girly panic when I see a spider, but it's inchworms that really get me. I'll be walking around my neighborhood and one'll come dangling down a la Spider-Man when you least expected. I swear, I go into a major freakout when one of those things get on me.

DefDumbandBlond · #27 07-21-2010, 07:33 PM

^ Me too.

Ugh I hate the bastards. The spider could be the size of a pencil point and I'd still lose my mind.

iamnotafraid · #28 07-21-2010, 09:00 PM

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Originally Posted by jannieC

I can't read the replies and I almost fainted at the tarantula photo. Just wanted to come and offer support to iamnotafraid.

^ my heroine.

Today while mowing the grass (huge yard btw) I ride through this big
spider web full of those huge garden spiders. I think I made it
through without them getting on me. They have the strongest web I've
ever felt, and some of them get almost as big as a hand.

So taking a Gatorade break, I come in get refreshed to go back out.
And make a quick dash to the bathroom, and look up in the mirror,
and on top of my hat another SPIDER. He might be in
another world now. I'm not as nice as JannieC's husband.

It was unbelievably hot today. So sweating like crazy I crawl off the
mower to make my way to the shower. PG13 warning, I run down the
hall naked as a jaybird (I was home alone) to hop in the shower. Standing
there in the cool water I see dirt, pieces of grass and a worm wash
off of me down the drain.

So really it's been just another Alabama Summer Day.

(missladyloki the worm story was for you.....and it's true)

jannieC · #29 07-22-2010, 04:27 AM

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Originally Posted by iamnotafraid

^ They have the strongest web I've
ever felt, and some of them get almost as big as a hand.

I first read this as the spiders being almost as big as a hand and died a little bit.

iamnotafraid · #30 07-22-2010, 04:53 AM

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Originally Posted by jannieC

I first read this as the spiders being almost as big as a hand and died a little bit.

JannieC, Actually that is what I meant, I just didn't write it right.
The Garden Spiders can grow to be as big as a hand. Not as thick
as some spiders, but still rather large.