[Lesley Silvester]

Oh my dear gods, terrifying.
I am no wuss normally but I suspect I am the biggest arachnaphobe on here. I am nearly crying just looking at the pic

I bet you're not.  I couldn't enlarge the photo and I feel sick now.  I can't even look at pictures of ordinary big ones.

[Mammyshaz]

Give me an aggressive share pei any day!!

Evil, evil eight legged man eaters are spiders. they always head towards me!
This thing is..is..is.  Aaaaaaahhhhhhh!!

[ballingall]

Oh my dear gods, terrifying.
I am no wuss normally but I suspect I am the biggest arachnaphobe on here. I am nearly crying just looking at the pic

I bet you're not.  I couldn't enlarge the photo and I feel sick now.  I can't even look at pictures of ordinary big ones.

I find it easier to just not look at that pic....

[plumseverywhere]

Oh my dear gods, terrifying.
I am no wuss normally but I suspect I am the biggest arachnaphobe on here. I am nearly crying just looking at the pic

I'm terrified of them too CW - I'm sure it must relate to a childhood incident (being teased with one or something?) but each time we get a huge spider in the bedroom I go into meltdown because I cannot bear to think of sleeping with it 'on the loose'. My 9 year old picks them up, has a chat with them, names them and then sticks them out in the garden for me and has done since she was about 4!


Mini domestic the other night because OH told me I need to Man up and catch them myself after I sent him a FB message to come and get it because I couldnt' leave the bed and he couldn't hear me shouting!! 

[Sylvia]

So, what happened to the spider? I hope you didn't swat him   Did you get a "Spiderman" out to remove him?

[plumseverywhere]

No, I couldn't kill one. I can't kill anything (apart from fleas and redmite, oh and bluebottles)


Well, he eventually came in the bedroom and said words along the lines of "oh for goodness sakes..." and informed me that Boris had been living in our bedroom for days and what was my problem. Then, he stuck a plastic cup over it and said "there you go, I've done the hard bit - YOU get it out". Oh my knees went wobbly at this point and I told him a few hometruths.


I tried to pick the cup up with a bit of paper but was shaking and muttering about how HE was actually too scared to do it and maybe I should pop next door to our good looking neighbour as I doubt he's scared of spiders.... Rather miraculously, hubby got back out the bed, lifted the cup and spider up and put it out the window. Result  [size=78%] [/size]

[luckylady]

but each time we get a huge spider in the bedroom I go into meltdown because I cannot bear to think of sleeping with it 'on the loose'. My 9 year old picks them up, has a chat with them, names them and then sticks them out in the garden for me

Same here Plums.  And can I have your 9 year old on speed-dial for spider emergencies?  I'll send a taxi for her!! (but not Tizzala's with the radioactive cat in it. lol) 

[colliewoman]

Some of you may relate to my annoyance of the following 2 comment then!
 
'it's only a spider, it won't hurt you'
 
Thanks for that, I am well aware of the reason it is called an IRRATIONAL fear
 
My all time favourite?
'it's far more scared of you than you are of it'
Well that's odd cos I have never seen a spider weep with fear in my life. If I'm so sodding scary why does it ALWAYS run towards me???
 
Fortunately for me Red-Dog is quite the spider hound and will do anything to get the crawly protein snacks 

[plumseverywhere]

Can definitely relate to those!! And no, I've never seen a spider that looks scared. Ever. 

[Sbom]

Colliewoman, you wouldnt have to feed Red-Dog for a week if he got hold of that one!

[luckylady]

Tiz, I think you should have put a spider warning in your subject heading - you've probably set many arachnophobes back to square one in their therapy.     

[plumseverywhere]

Tiz, I think you should have put a spider warning in your subject heading - you've probably set many arachnophobes back to square one in their therapy.     

 

[colliewoman]

Colliewoman, you wouldnt have to feed Red-Dog for a week if he got hold of that one!

True, I think that one is bigger than her

[Lesley Silvester]

If we have a spider on the bedroom ceiling, OH has to go and get the hoover.  Can you imagine the scene?  There I am, OUTSIDE the room and peering round the door, while he holds the hose up to the ceiling, and me saying, "left a bit, left a bit, ok now."  If he misses and the spider runs, I scream and OH nearly falls off the bed with shock.  It doesn't help when I have to say, "Not that left, the other one."  (cos I'm dyslexic and have trouble with lefts and rights).

[northfifeduckling]

well....there always used to be the rumour that these kind of things come with bananas? I wonder if it left some eggs in a corner