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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-08 11:30 PM
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"I'm walkin' into spider webs...."
No, not the No Doubt song.


I was outside looking for a black miniature schnauzer in our pitch black backyard, and as I was coming back to the house I walked through an active spider web, leading with my face.

I screamed like a 6 year old girl, dropped the flashlight, and did this for three minutes:

I still have both the heebies AND the jeebies :scared:
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elshiva Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-08 11:32 PM
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1. Sorry, Richardo.
This smiley is hilarious:
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Fenris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-08 11:33 PM
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2. I do that all the time.
Spiders here think it's a good idea to place their webs across the places I have to walk through the most. I don't like killing them for no reason and it bugs me when I mess up their webs, but Jesus Christ, pick a better place!
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-08 11:36 PM
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3. I was once stalked by a spider.
Edited on Thu Aug-07-08 11:37 PM by GoddessOfGuinness
Got up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom, and one of those jumping spiders hopped across my bare feet. I screamed "EEEeeeeee!" then went looking for him. Couldn't find him anywhere. So I went back to bed, and had just started to drift off, when I felt the damned thing hop-hopping over my bare legs. I screamed bloody murder. Mr GoG fed him to a killer fish he had at the time. If he'd let me catch him in the bathroom, I would've let him outside. But he had to play games with me, so he became Bubba's midnight snack instead.

Glad you didn't meet Shelob face to face... :hi:
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-08 11:37 PM
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4. Serves him right
Edited on Thu Aug-07-08 11:42 PM by Richardo
Bastard. :mad:


On edit: "Face to face". The reason I got so panicky is because when I was a kid, I opened the door to a storage unit we had (this was in the desert) and walked straight into a black widow web that was spanning the door opening. The spider itself was RIGHT at eye level and I got to about a millimeter away before I was able to run away. I had arachnophobia for many years after that.

I thought I had gotten over it, but tonight changed my mind. Now where did I put that Xanax?
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-08 11:55 PM
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7. Yikes!
That would be terrifying! I've only seen a black widow once...a small one that a neighbor found in a woodpile. He had it in a jar, fortunately. :hug:
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elshiva Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-08 11:38 PM
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5. Who's Bubba?
Bill Clinton likes to eat spiders?
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-08 11:56 PM
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8. Bubba the killer fish.
He died, years ago.
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-08 11:58 PM
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9. Too many spiders I bet
:)
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-08 12:03 AM
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11. Probably...
Or else he choked on a fish bone. He was quite the cannibal, that one.
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elshiva Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-08 12:01 AM
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10. Sorry.
:hug:
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-08 12:07 AM
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12. He led a full life...
Very full.
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elshiva Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-08 12:08 AM
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13. What kind of fish was he?
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-08 12:10 AM
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14. I'm not sure.
Mr GoG found him in a pond that was about to be dredged to make way for the Metro.
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elshiva Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-08 12:14 AM
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15. Great rescue story.
Mr. GoG is my hero.

How big was the fish?
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-08 12:19 AM
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16. About 5-6" at the time of his passing
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elshiva Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-08 12:28 AM
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17. Big boy.
Maybe a trout? RIP Bubba.
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-08 01:25 AM
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18. I found a pic of one...

It was a bluegill.
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elshiva Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-08 01:32 AM
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19. Beautiful.
As Dubya said, I hope that man and fish can peacefully co-exist.
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Arkansas Granny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-08 09:46 AM
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31. I'm afraid that if a spider hopped across my bare feet while I was in the
bathroom, he would have drowned in the puddle that I involuntarily made on the floor before anyone could have rescued him.
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-08 10:51 AM
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32. !!
:rofl:
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Shakespeare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-08 11:46 AM
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39. You have just confirmed my Great Spider Theory.
If you encounter a spider in your house, and do not dispose of it (in one way or another), it will climb into your bed and wait for you.

And jumping spiders have always scared the living shit out of me. :scared:
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AmyDeLune Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-08 11:40 PM
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6. Good thing you don't live in my neighborhood then,
every time I go down the front steps or out of the basement door I have to wave my arms in front of myself like the Lost in Space robot (*DANGER!*DANGER!*:P) or get a face full of sticky spiderwebs (sometimes with spiders, ick).
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Bunny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-08 02:31 AM
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20. I bet one of them got into your ear, burrowed into your brain, and laid eggs.
Bet on it.














;) Sorry you went through that, Richardo. :hug: Spiders don't squick me out too bad, but you're well aware of my terror of mice. I behave the same way when I see one, even a dead one.
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-08 05:25 AM
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21. You're the worst person in the world.














I'll cover you re: mice if you cover me re: spiders ;-) :hi:
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Bunny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-08 06:46 AM
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22. Got your back, dude!
:pals:
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tekisui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-08 07:03 AM
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23. That is considered good luck!
Congrats, have a great day! It's an old mountain superstition.
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-08 07:20 AM
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24. Well that's a positive outlook...
...but it was BAD luck for me to walk into it in the first place. :shrug:
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-08 09:08 AM
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25. So, did the spider exact revenge on you while you were sleeping?
...for destroying her web?
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-08 09:11 AM
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26. See Bunny's post #20
I may not know for sure until the eggs hatch :scared:
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-08 09:13 AM
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27. Sounds like that episode of Night Gallery...
The Caterpillar :scared:
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-08 09:29 AM
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28. Earwig
And yes, it does. :scared:


Bunny is teh evil.
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Shell Beau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-08 09:39 AM
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29. I wonder what kind of spider it was whose home you just ruined!
:P

That is icky when that happens.
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EstimatedProphet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-08 09:44 AM
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30. I had that happen when I was 12
BIG black and yellow garcen spiders. I still can't look at them without getting nauseous.
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Shell Beau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-08 11:05 AM
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34. Those are pretty spiders. They are on the large side though.
Their webs are neat too!
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EstimatedProphet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-08 01:24 PM
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43. Have one crawling on your face, and suddenly they quit being pretty
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XNASA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-08 11:00 AM
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33. Miniature schnauzer?
Is that, like, some kind of sausage?

If so, it begs the question, "Why were you looking for a tiny sausage in your yard in the dark"?
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-08 11:08 AM
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36. The original stealth dog...
It's like the old line about something being darker than some black thing at midnight at the bottom of a coal mine.

When she's not ready to come in, Ruby will seek out a random dark corner of the back yard and stand perfectly still (so her collar doesn't jingle) and watch with what I can only assume is great hilarity while I comb the entire yard looking for her, calling her name, tripping over objects, walking through spider webs, cursing, etc.

When I find her, she's all "OK, Game Over, I'm ready to go in now", and trots toward the back door.

I am the Epsilon dog in our pack.
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MicaelS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-08 12:05 PM
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41. She probably wants just to be left alone
To do her business, and there you are knocking on the bathroom door, so to speak. :bounce:
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-08 01:22 PM
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42. Nah, this is after she's been out for 20-30 minutes
She's just yankin' my chain. :D
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MicaelS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-08 11:08 AM
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35. I was staying in a motel one time
And was almost asleep and fucking goddamn big-ass cockroach RAN ACROSS MY FACE!!! I screamed like a 3 year old. Took me 2 hours to get to sleep. :puke:
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Shell Beau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-08 11:29 AM
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38. I was doing just fine until I read that!
:puke:

I would rather bathe in a tub full of spiders than have 1 roach touch me! :cry:
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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-08 11:27 AM
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37. Out in the country years ago, trousers hanging on a chair back
Edited on Fri Aug-08-08 11:29 AM by UTUSN
I started to put them on the next morning and felt something fuzzy. I hopped out of them fast and shook them, and a tarantula fell out.


Since then I've seen people handle them while gazing fascinated at them. They seem to be really slow moving and non-aggressive, but it will never be ME pal-ing around with them---OR snakes, or most other creepy crawlers. Sorry. I grant space to all living things, just not NEAR me for *most* of them. Most mammals, O.K.
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southpaw Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-08 12:03 PM
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40. I hear ya!
Walking around at night can be dangerous around my yard.

Walking into something like this is far too likely, this time of year.
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-08-08 01:25 PM
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44. That would have been my exact reaction as well.
Hate them.
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