Arachnophobia: The Fear Of Spiders

Do you hate spiders?

  • Yes, I kill them no matter what.

    Votes: 21 29.6%
  • No, they deserve to live as mother nature intended.

    Votes: 11 15.5%
  • Only if they annoy me. I don't bother if they mind their own business.

    Votes: 39 54.9%

  • Total voters
    71
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I absolutely cannot stand these little demons. It's sad that I refuse to be in the same room as a spider. If there's a spider on my ceiling, and I'm racing on GT5 or editing soundtracks on Audacity, I will actually either begin to shiver uncontrollably, or just leave the room cussing. Usually I just end up sucking them up with the vacuum. Even the small spiders that are about the size of a piece of hair, I have to kill before I can do anything else. I'm not sure why I'm so afraid of spiders, I guess that's just how I am.
What about you folks here at the Rumble Strip? Are you afraid of spiders? If not, what do you think of spiders in general? Do you consider us to be cowards?
 
I have a small fear of them but usually I leave them be if I'm too tired or if they're huddled up in their web.

Otherwise I stomp them.


Centipedes are a little more nerve-wracking.... natural instinct to fear animals with more legs?
 
I do not fear spiders, at all. I don't like them either, but no fear.

I do have Cynophobia (fear of dogs - yes... just laugh if you like :crazy:), so I don't see people with Arachnophobia as cowards.
 
Dude it was 3am one time and I was so tired. I get in my bed, lean over to turn the light off, in the last second I notice a darker spot on my ceiling. I'm like hmm maybe I won't turn the light off just yet. It's too far to see so I get up to take a look. It's a decent size spider right in the corner of the ceiling and the wall. Worst part is I couldn't kill it because it was too high and above my entertainment center so impossible no matter what. I couldn't just sleep knowing it's right there. I wait for it to move so I can get a shot at killing it. Finally it moves and starts running right in that corner line but in my direction. It kept stopping and running again. I was trying to mess with it by shinning a flashing on it. I get out my bed now and just wait. It's about half an hour later and I'm so tired I'm debating saying screw it and sleeping. As I think this the Bastard deviates from the corner part, runs down in a diagonal right towards my bed, right where my head to the wall would be. Clearly there's no way I'm sleeping until it's dead now. I went towards it ever so slightly and it ran back up to the ceiling. I think it knew what was going on. I waited and waited and it literally managed to run around the entire room and back to where it started. So tired and pissed now. It starts running again. I can't just kill it anywhere because I can't reach number one and/or number two it's over something important like my bed. Finally this guy runs to a spot which is a good location to die. I sat there waiting for him to come down just a little. He starts creeping down ever so slowly. I'm not making the same mistake by moving too quick and scaring him back up like last time. I wait until he's down far enough and run towards the wall. He spots me and takes off. We are both running at top speed to end this. I reach the wall, raise my arm up, just barely long enough to reach and, SPLAT! It's now past 4am and the battle it over. Finally I may sleep.
 
Good read! That was interesting! Usually I spray the bugger with my AXE body spray. That either freaks them out and makes them run, or they slowly dangle down. Once a spider dangled into my fish tank, and got attacked by my adult plecostomus fish. It was funny, he kept dragging it down underwater. I think he ended up eating the spider, because I found two legs floating in the water the next morning.

In conclusion, don't mess with my pleco!
 
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Within the native American culture, the spider is regarded as an eight legged man, and evil.
Spiders also keep one's home clean (if needed) by eating up a lot of small household bugs. If you see a spiderweb - it's usually a net across a well travelled bug traffic pattern.

As a home renovator, and landscaper, I meet spiders a lot. I would pick the 4th option. (Other) ;)

Pics! Tarantula courtship wins Silken Cord Award.
 
I was scared of spiders when I was young. I still don't like them now, but I'm less afraid of them than I was.
 
It really depends on the size. I don't mind small spiders if they don't bother me, and aren't dangerous. If they are larger though, I do end up killing them.

However, if a spider ever gets wings... :scared:


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I'm irrationally afraid of spiders because I'm always worried they're the dangerous kind, even when they probably aren't. The problem is that I have no idea how to tell the difference so I usually just assume the worst.

Though at the same time, I figure if I don't bother them they won't bite me, so I try to just let them go somewhere else and leave me alone. If I was one crawling up my leg, I'd probably get a little freaked out and try to get it off without making it angry.
 
No, they deserve to live as mother nature intended.

If I come across a spider in my home, I catch these spiders alive and let them go, elsewhere
Some of them, I catch some spiders with my bare hands, others with a jar.

I use to play with cross spiders and let them crawl on my hands. The only thing that made me a little bit anxious, was when they crawled in my sleeve. I didn't like that.
 
As long as they stay out of sight (before I'm made aware of their presence) then I'm cool.
 
I'm not afraid of anything off the top of my head. Especially something the size of my index finger-nail. That's just absurd IMO.
 
If they are in my bedroom, or anywhere near where I sleep, they die.


If they are hanging out in the bathroom or the living room or outside or whatever (so long as it doesn't violate the above two things, ie: they are outside but in my bedroom window frame), they're fine. Spider eggs, on the other hand, are unacceptable in all cases.
 
I think I have it quite bad when it comes to having a fear of spiders. I get chills even seeing one.

I'm literally terrified of big spiders, I won't go anywhere near them.
 
Kill 'em, kill 'em all!!

Hate 'em, use the adrenaline, must kill them in 10 seconds or less, then the fear does start to kick in. Unless it's tiny I can't even bare think about them on my skin.
 
My house has a few of them. I guess they did not leave any eggs because the moment I see eggs on my property (Yes, it includes outside) It gets destroyed. Most spiders come and go from my house, I never really bother them as long as they stay away from me.

I will say this. Living next to my neighbor who has tons of spiders outside of his house has really made me more calm around them. I even lasted a night in a family members house where there were decent sized spiders in almost every corner of the house.
 
For those who hate them or are scared of them, just remember the average person swallows around 8 spiders per year in their sleep.



















Sorry, I had to.
 
Spiders rarely bother me, in fact, I have a great interest in them as they are quite fascinating.

I live in an old house with a lot of exposed brickwork, so I see many spiders. If they earn their keep by maintaining a fly-free home, don't make webs in silly places (across doorways!) and don't traumatise my girlfriend too much (and even then I never throw them out, just put them somewhere where they won't be disturbed) then they are more than welcome to stay.

The only two that annoy me with any frequency are the False Widow and the Tube Web Spider - the last one likes to hang out in exactly the kind of environments that I work in, and have a painful bite for something so small. Maybe it serves me right for putting my hands where I can't see?
 
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