Stories of big spiders? Share yours....

[HEyHEY]

Luckily I haven't seen anything the size of my hand. But in Vancouver we used to get them at least palm sized, everything from trees to bears seems to be bigger in the BC/Alaska region. You'd see these huge things make a break for it in the basement and have trouble sleeping at night.

One time, I was awoken by a tickle and instinctively smashed my back, and a HUGE hobo spider....yuck!

That instinct served me well that time. Once it did not. I was in Vietnam with my girlfriend and we were sound asleep. I was scared the entire trip I'd run into some mammoth spider at some point. Especially now that we were in the countryside.

I woke up to see what, in the dim light, looked like huge spider legs on here face...as I was half asleep and not thinking, my instinct kicked in and I smacked the mass of hairy legs as hard as I could..... only it wasn't legs, her hair had just fallen across her face in a way that looked like spider legs. I immediately gasped, "OH MY GOD, I"M SO SORRY!" When I realized what had happened. She just said, "Hmm.... sleep" and rolled over.

That was a freebee.

[cherokeeprogressive]

1. I once had a large tarantula RUN up my leg after a friend accidentally pulled its leg off.

I batted it across the room and it disappeared. No one ever saw it again. It was a friend's pet and we were stoned. I wouldn't go near it and one of my friends picked it up by the leg and swung it in my direction. Its leg came off and it landed on my shoe, then RAN up my leg. I still have nightmares centered around that experience.

That's not what is most scary to me though...

My uncle who served in the 'Nam told me that there were spiders in the jungle that were big enough to cause the leaves to rustle when they moved. While he was sleeping under his poncho, on the ground.

[Skittles]

2. was it this spider?

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=665847

[HEyHEY]

3. that is so awesome!

[cherokeeprogressive]

4. Okay, I'm not even going to click on your link. I know you...

You'd kill the spider for me then chase me around the house while holding the tissue you killed it with. AFTER I changed the oil in your car, tuned it up, built a deck on the back of the house, and put out the fire you started while sauteeing shrimp on the stove.

I ain't afraid of nuthin'. Not even a Skittles ass-whoopin'. Okay, almost nuthin'.

I'm afraid of spiders though, and YES INDEED I can see you chasing me with a dead spider in a napkin now that you know.

There be a monster in you. Yes Indeed.

[HEyHEY]

5. It's not that... click on the link, it's so funny.

[cherokeeprogressive]

6. Now that IS funny. Apologies to Skittles.

As she chases me around with a tissue full of dead spider...

[Skittles]

7. I WILL KICK SPIDER-PHOBIC CHEROKEE ASS

actually, I used to be afraid of spiders but then I lived on a farm a couple of years and got used to picking up wolf spiders and evicting them :D

[cherokeeprogressive]

10. Kick my ass, I don't care... Just kill the spider for me and we'll call it even.

I don't think there's anything that gets me over that fear.

I'm not afraid of many things. I worked the flight decks of aircraft carriers for almost eight years... not scary. Walking through a spider web on a porch? Yeah I'm a mess for a few seconds.

[Skittles]

8. here's another David Thorne

http://www.27bslash6.com/missy.html

[HEyHEY]

12. OMG

"I knew someone who had a basset hound that had its hind legs removed after an accident and it had to walk around with one of those little buggies with wheels. If it had been my dog I would have asked for all its legs to be removed and replaced with wheels and had a remote control installed. I could charge neighbourhood kids for rides and enter it in races. If I did the same with a horse I could drive it to work. I would call it Steven.
Regards, David. "

I was in pain reading that from laughing.

[LiberalAndProud]

9. Oh my goodness. Thank you.

I really really needed that. It just goes to prove that Davids are indeed awesome.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[cwydro]

11. I like spiders

My grandmother said it was bad luck to kill a spider and I still believe her.

I live in Florida and like to be out in the boonies, so there is rarely a day I don't run across one...but I am highly alert for them and when I do run into a web - I do the spider dance.

I try to avoid the webs, not just to avoid the spider, but the poor thing spent all day building it just to have some mindless human blunder into it...no that is just wrong. I'll take the other path or duck under it or whatever.

[kimi]

13. I went out one late night to put my bunnies to bed

This was when I kept my bunnies outside, now they are all indoor bunnies - yes, partly because of the damn spider. On the side of the hutch was this huge - 5 inch wide huge - spider. I was by myself, and could not think how to deal with the beastly devil. There was no bug spray in the house - I don't do that shit. So - I went for the Windex. It was a long and exhausting trial, for me as much as the bunny-killing spider, I'm sure - but I was triumphant in the end. Lots of squealing and panting, gasping and covering of eyes. (On my part, don't know about the spider.) But - the spider lay dead in the end, and my bunnies lived to see another day. To be honest, they probably would have lived anyway - the spider had probably been out there with them for months and I just hadn't noticed . . . still . . .


Eh, that's my spider story.

[Syrinx]

14. I was in Hawaii once...

And me and my brothers and step-sisters were having this ordeal with an evil native idol that was bringing bad luck to everyone that it touched. And I woke up and found a giant tarantula on my chest. But we just left Hawaii and went to the King's Island amusement park near Cincinnatti instead. Unfortunately, we misplaced some blueprints of an important project my architect dad on a roller-coaster.

:)

[hobbit709]

15. One time when I was in Big Bend

It had rained right about dawn and as we were hiking down this canyon early in the morning, the canyon walls had thousands of big yellow and black tarantulas soaking up the moisture.

[wookie72]

16. I like spiders

they eat bad bugs. They get a bad rap. :)

[NewJeffCT]

17. Had a run in with one of these not long ago...