Now I can handle ticks any day over spiders. I grew up with dogs, and dogs having ticks were just a fact of life back then and the only way to get them off was to pull them off with your fingers. Then you either mashed them on the concrete with a rock or threw them in an old soup can full of gasoline to kill them. You could fill up a can pretty quick in the summertime. Kinda gross I know.
But Spiders kinda freak me out when they get on me. I don't mind looking at 'em, in fact I think they're kinda cool, but I don't want 'em ON me. I guess because there's so many Brown Recluses and Black Widows around here. We're just a regular cornucopia of insect life I guess. ;o)