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I consider them allies. And yes, black widows give me the willies too, and I certainly find them often enough. I don't consider them a threat though (and I don't think I've ever found one in the house, always out side or in a garage/shed, so I figure that's fair)
I have a recent funny story about a spider - it was on this sculpture thing I found in a thrift store that I really wanted to buy, but I noticed the spider and got all squeamish. I finally managed to gingerly carry the thing to the register and pay for it, watching the whole time to make sure the spider didn't make a move and try to crawl up my arm (lol, as if). I noticed that there was an egg sac too, which explained why said spider didn't just evacuate when I started picking the thing up and moving it around. Anyway, as I was carrying the thing across the parking lot, being really careful to keep an eye on the spider, it somehow fell off or jumped off and at first it started to run away and then, like after half a second, it turned around like "Oh shit! My kids are still on that thing!" and ran back and lol, you know what I did? I put the damn thing on the ground so the spider could get back on!!! I had been intending to take it to the grass near the parking lot and leave the spider and her egg sac there - which is what I eventually did, but damn, in all of the excitement, the frikken egg sac hatched and suddenly now there were dozen of itty bitty (or is it itsy bitsy?) spiders all over this thing! I got a broom from the store and brushed all the spiders off onto the grass.
Ewwww...! I have a real ambivalent relationship with spiders. They creep me out but yet fascinate me too.
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