[scott7278]

Now I've got the eebie-geebies. I never will forget when I was in my old apartment and felt a tickling sensation on my left arm. I laid there for a moment, thinking I was dreaming, and then I turned on the light in time to see a HUGE spider running behind the bed.

IT TOUCHED ME! IT TOUCHED ME! OH, THE HUMANITY!

I hate those darn things.

[templar]

I turned on the light in time to see a HUGE spider running behind the bed.

I grew up in Oklahoma. We had Tarantulas twice as big as grapefruits everywhere. The darn things actually seemed to travel around in herds of hundreds of spiders. We kids used to catch them and tie a string around their waist with the other end pinned to our shirt. They're a pretty docile critter in spite of standing a foot high and being big, black and hairy. Treat them gently and they don't bite. Get one mad enough to bite you and they are really painful. Someone once told me that the males make better pets as they aren't as likely to ever bite you. You can buy little bitty (baby?) ones in pet shops, usually only three or four inches across. Hopefully you could, in captivity, grow one to be large enough to protect you from small dogs though. Or maybe consume a burglar or two on the side.

[tuckrdout]

I can not get this off my mind now! I CAN'T SLEEP!!!

I went to the site and looked at all those pictures and just have the shivers! I have the feeling that spiders are crawling all over me!!

I am so sorry for all of you who have had this horrid thing! But, right now I wish I never knew about it!

[hunyb]

I can do you one more, one morning (i was in high school, living in Wichita Falls, TX), we lived next to an undeveloped field (got scorpions all the time, same color as the carpet, different story!!), well, one morning, i'm coming out of the shower, it's still dark in the house, and i walk into my bedroom and thought i had stepped on a big rubber band, so i turned on the light and BAM, there was this ENORMOUS spider crawling away from my foot.....I screamed for my dad to come and kill it.....family laughs at me to this day, but i will say this, that thing was HUGE!!!!! gackkkk!!! hated spiders ever since!!!