Share your spider stories here.

[PrincessFiona]

Right. This post was inspired by my morning.

I was driving 70+ mph down highway 94 heading into the cities this morning when I felt something on my hand. I quickly moved my hand and noticed something fall to my pants. Insert panic and hysteria. I looked down and discovered (much to my horror) that it was a spider. The spider appeared to be dead. It was lying flat on my pants. I couldn't help myself. I started screaming and crying. I was sweating. I grabbed a tissue paper to kill it. Just as I reached for it, the thing literally lept up onto the back of the steering wheel. I have no idea how. I screamed and cried hysterically ... in my car ... driving down the highway.

I called Thomas and was half-hysterical until I could see it on my steering wheel. My hands were shaking, but I was able to kill it with a piece of tissue.

I stuffed the tissue in the drink holder next to me and spent the rest of the trip worried that I hadn't killed it and it was roaming around my car ... or that it had friends.

When I got to school, I checked the tissue. It was dead.

Yipes.

Share your spider stories here. (I might not be able to read them LOL)

Kris

[Thirteen]

Wolf spider (or its cousin?) in my kitchen sink, about a week before DS2 was born.
It was hiding under some dishes.
I always run the water before washing dishes now, and try to not leave anything in the sink.


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[Bittersweet]

Spiders are the worst! While nursing my youngest in the middle of the night, I felt and saw a giant spider crawl up my bare stomach and over my shoulder. I consider it one of my best mom moments that I didn't throw my infant trying to get the spider off of me. Believe me, I was tempted.

[MsSassyBaskets]

In our last place a couple years ago, we had an infestation of the garage and parts of the exterior of the house. There were different kinds, but mostly just your basic brown web-weavers. There was a gap between the garage and the house large enough to fit 3 cars. Spiders would build webs from car to car, eventually reaching the back door. We would drive or sweep them down, and they would be back within hours. Finally the spiders reached the house and started building webs around our side door and mailbox, and it got so bad that they would drop from the doorway when we opened the door to get the mail, and the mail carriers hated delivering to us. Keep in mind this only happened over the course of 2-4 weeks, and we rented so we weren't about to hire an exterminator, nor was our landlord. So by about week 3 we bought the heavy-duty spider killing Raid and went to town all over the exterior doors and windows and the garage. Literally hundreds of spiders started dropping off the buildings. They were RAINING. It was completely horrifying. The amazing thing is that the whole season, we only saw maybe 1-2 spiders inside the house.

And then there was the time a few weeks ago when one of these was on the outside of my car window when DH was driving home, and I couldn't get out of the car until it was gone: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GnG5xtueC1...ing_spider.jpg

[SuzySunshine]

Did you see this? http://www.people.com/people/mobile/...861675,00.html I.would. DIE!

[houseelf]

I don't have any spider stories. They don't scare me. In fact, I'm the designated bug killer in our house.

I might just pass out if I ever go the edge of the Grand Canyon though.... Heights <<shudder>>

[fluffhead]

Our first house was awash in spiders. Here's DD's bite - she was 3 YO at the time.
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