Creepy Crawlies

Katrina Orchid · Creepy Crawlies

Why is with spiders? They are tiny in comparison to us yet we are pretrified of them.

Also what is it with people (men in particular) who are so against removing a spider from a damsel in distress' room??

I still can't find the big creepy crawly because it crawled somewhere else whilst I was out but when I do, I'll make I have found a hero to save me. (though a hero is harder to find than the little bugger)

Herr Geist

I think men are more afraid of spiders than women. Nearly every person I know that has a spider as a pet is a girl. Very few guys keep them.

I am personally terrified of spiders. If I'm alone and I see one, I run. Fast. Usually screaming like a drag queen who just found a really great pair of shoes in his size. It's not pretty.

But if I'm around someone else and they're scared, too, my protective instinct kicks in and I chase the spider down until it's dead. No, I don't play nice and scoop it up and throw it outside. Spidey dies. Period. haha.

I wouldn't say that's heroic. I'd say it's just the normal male response to seeing a girl get scared. I'm surprised no one is helping you.

Miss Kitty Lou

Diva Hollywood

You guys will never be able to stay in my house I am so sorry it is full of spiders. I have got used to them now there are so many and so big, they think its there house I think its mine lol
Hopefully the new place in Brighton will be spider free so you can all visit.
Diva x

Pieman

I'm not a great fan of spiders, I have got better so that I can stay in the same room as one, but it has to be the opposite side of the room to me and not moving!

I got very freaked at work when I was 16, I was in the store room on a Sunday getting stuff to go down and a tiny money spider just walked past my face along the shelf!!! I was so scared I went straight downstairs and excused myself to go and get a coffee to calm myself down!!!

Herr Geist

Hmmm. I don't think I was ever afraid of the little ones. It's weird because I didn't have a fear of spiders until I was about 7 or 8 years old. My mom told me I used to play with spiders before that which she always found very odd.

I can pinpoint the day and the incident that brought on my fear of spiders. We were living out on the horse ranch so, needless to say, there were spiders everywhere in various sizes and species. Black widows, brown recluses, wolf spiders, etc. I knew which ones to stay away from.

Anyway, one day I'm in the bathroom changing in to my swim attire because we had set up the collapsible wading pool in the yard. I'm completely naked when this black spider darts out from under the toilet and runs straight up my leg. Male instincts being what they are, I immediately feared for my fun parts and screamed as I start trying to slap the spider off of me. I finally did get it and kill it but after that I was always deathly afraid of them. But only certain sizes and types. Anything smaller than a quarter is fine. Anything the size of my palm or bigger and I start getting nervous in a very big way. I can now be in the room with one just like Pieman. It has to be across the room. If one appears within a few feet of me, I either run or strike after weighing my options. But if it comes time to do the killing because someone else is more scared than I am... it's going down.

I have lots of spider stories. One including me, a spider, and 4 wheeler tumbling down a large hill on the side of a dirt trail. It wasn't fun but I didn't get hurt which surprised everyone who saw it, including myself haha.

Damn spiders.

Minnie the Minxtress

We're over run with the hairy little munchkins here... I don't mind them unless they're too big or weird looking. We had one who lived by the fireplace and would sit happily in the evenings minding her own business. I named her Maude and she cohabited with us happily until one night she ran along the back of the sofa and jumped on a friend of mine. Alas, Maude received a very nasty swipe and now languishes in the Great Web in the sky. I do remember though, screeching 'No Jackie.. don't panic it's just Maude..' - but by then, the damage had been done. Sad

CrimbleFairy

I hate the way they move............ shudder........!

lushem

i used to be scared of them, till i had kids,
Being a single mum for a little while I had to prove to Zack that I was "brave" and disposed of spiders humanly,

There was a little one that lived in the corner, it came down the wall the other day,
Bayley showed me the remains on his thumb!

Katrina Orchid

Herr Geist

Stuart the photographer

Bit of a tangent, but I had a dream the other night that there was a giant blue hairy spider on top of the garden shed, about 1 ft across. It was vaguely menacing and kept on scoffing down whole pheasants. Cheese dreams don't get much better than that.

PS I am fine with spiders, I just wouldn't choose to hang out with them as a preference.

starletvonsparkle

I HATE spiders. And 99% of all bugs for that matter.

My sister and I had pet stick insects, they were ok. We also had giant snails and they were pretty cool.

Seriously though, I HATE bugs. I completely freak out and squeal until Nick gets rid of them. For some reason we kept getting really big spiders in our house last autumn. And by big i mean they had at least a 5" leg span (if there is such a thing?!) and were those big shiny terminator lookin spiders. The amount of times myself and the other girl who lives with us freaked out in the bathroom was astonishing.

HATE BUGS!

Horse ranch eh? I used to work on a stableyard many moons ago. That meant getting bitten to death by horse flies, and swarmed by midges, and those flying ant things that everyone says don't bite, but they totally do. I got a bite between my shoulder blades that was so bad I thought someone was shooting at me and the horse I was riding with a BB gun. Had to have the core removed by a doctor. Sexy.

xxx

Herr Geist

haha yeah, I've got some scars and war stories from my time on the ranch. As much as it sucked back then, I'm very glad I had that experience. I miss parts of it but I'm just too much of a city boy. I can ride a horse and hang with the cowboys, but I can't live that far away from people. I do miss being able to go shooting anytime I wanted without the cops getting called. haha

ameliesoleil

tee hee i like little bugs...when we moved to our new flat i spent the first day finding bugs and introducing myself to them... as you do...

we have walter in the bathroom, burt in the office and arabella behind the bookshelf but she also loves our orchid

we had woodlice in our house in bristol... that was actually horrible cos we didn't have a bed and slept on the floor waking up to find woodlice crawling on the bed... not nice at all..

edd has a tale of playing with a marble hole when he was a baby in australia. He was batting marbles with big chubby baby hands and then spied a spider and started to bat that till his clever sister picked him up just as a funnel web spider was about to bite him... if it had got him well he'd be brown bread!!

the last time we were in oz, i was taking a shower and turned around to find a huntsman spider on my shower curtain....perfectly harmless but about the size of my hand... shat myself...

xx

Herr Geist

That must have been hell to clean out of the shower. Very Happy