(Way OT) Arachnophobia

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Lesley wrote:

I just walked into our living room just in front of the telly we have
a spaghetti junction of sundry leads and extension plugs etc for the
TV/PC/Video/DVD etc etc. I always make sure I switch it all off and
unlpug it from the mains before we go to bed...so what I don't want to
see is Sarsi in the middle of it turning boxes over and digging round
leads but she's being very persistent- there's something she wants
under something in there...so I turned over the box she was pawing at
and a hude spider shot out from under it and bolted behind the TV
stand! Sarsi was so obsessed with trying to turn the box over she
didn't even spot it notice her prey had vanished!

It just wanted to let you know that it's been listening to your net
posts and it knows all about this discussion we've been having.

--
Loneliness is comforted by the closeness and touch of fur to fur,
skin to skin, or -- skin to fur. -- Paul Gallico

I can't understand why you are so upset. Non-poisonous spiders do an
important job in nature, and are usually unobtrusive while doing it. I
can see why your experience might freak you out, but why not just
"invite" the spider onto a piece of paper and put it outdoors? (You
might have saved yourself the experience of "a gazillion teeny tiny baby
spiders", if so, and allowed them to take up their duties outdoors were
they belonged.)

jmcquown wrote:
No, I'm not really afraid of spiders. Many spiders are beneficial. And
some, like the large black & yellow argiope spiders I had flanking my
patio a couple of years ago are strikingly beautiful.

snip

I don't really expect advice, I'm just venting and freaking out a little
bit at the thought of having to deal with this. I'm sure glad I sprayed
that "mama spider" this morning. If I hadn't I know I'd definitely have
been overrun with them. It's still creeping me out.

Jill

Sherry wrote:


I've had that happen before, too. It *is* freaky and more than a
little disconcerting.
But I've never sprayed, and never had a real infestation of spiders.
I
just "catch and release" for the most part.
I've noticed some years are worse than others for spiders--maybe
weather
conditions affect their numbers.
But I totally understand. *One* spider is no big deal, but seeing
gazillions of
them is creepy. Tarantulas are creepy just because of their sheer
size.

And yet, some people keep them as pets!

Lesley wrote:
I just walked into our living room just in front of the telly we have
a spaghetti junction of sundry leads and extension plugs etc for the
TV/PC/Video/DVD etc etc. I always make sure I switch it all off and
unlpug it from the mains before we go to bed...so what I don't want to
see is Sarsi in the middle of it turning boxes over and digging round
leads but she's being very persistent- there's something she wants
under something in there...so I turned over the box she was pawing at
and a hude spider shot out from under it and bolted behind the TV
stand! Sarsi was so obsessed with trying to turn the box over she
didn't even spot it notice her prey had vanished!

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs

(Who has just realised this means there's a large spider free in the
house....)

You still have a video? How quaint. Do you still use it?

--
Adrian

Adrian wrote:

Lesley wrote:
I just walked into our living room just in front of the telly we have
a spaghetti junction of sundry leads and extension plugs etc for the
TV/PC/Video/DVD etc etc. I always make sure I switch it all off and
unlpug it from the mains before we go to bed...so what I don't want to
see is Sarsi in the middle of it turning boxes over and digging round
leads but she's being very persistent- there's something she wants
under something in there...so I turned over the box she was pawing at
and a hude spider shot out from under it and bolted behind the TV
stand! Sarsi was so obsessed with trying to turn the box over she
didn't even spot it notice her prey had vanished!

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs

(Who has just realised this means there's a large spider free in the
house....)

You still have a video? How quaint. Do you still use it?

Hey! I still have one, too. Also have a DVD player, but I use the
VCR for recording stuff to watch later. Why should I buy a digital
recorder when I have something that already works fine? I have
nothing against new technology, but I am cheap.

Joyce

--
"Sentimentality" -- that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.
-- Graham Greene

Adrian wrote:
Lesley wrote:
I just walked into our living room just in front of the telly we have
a spaghetti junction of sundry leads and extension plugs etc for the
TV/PC/Video/DVD etc etc. I always make sure I switch it all off and
unlpug it from the mains before we go to bed...so what I don't want to
see is Sarsi in the middle of it turning boxes over and digging round
leads but she's being very persistent- there's something she wants
under something in there...so I turned over the box she was pawing at
and a hude spider shot out from under it and bolted behind the TV
stand! Sarsi was so obsessed with trying to turn the box over she
didn't even spot it notice her prey had vanished!

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs

(Who has just realised this means there's a large spider free in the
house....)

You still have a video? How quaint. Do you still use it?


Quaint? I still have lots of video movies and they are better and more
interesting than the cr-- that is on the air presently.

wrote in message
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Adrian wrote:

Lesley wrote:
I just walked into our living room just in front of the telly we have
a spaghetti junction of sundry leads and extension plugs etc for the
TV/PC/Video/DVD etc etc. I always make sure I switch it all off and
unlpug it from the mains before we go to bed...so what I don't want to
see is Sarsi in the middle of it turning boxes over and digging round
leads but she's being very persistent- there's something she wants
under something in there...so I turned over the box she was pawing at
and a hude spider shot out from under it and bolted behind the TV
stand! Sarsi was so obsessed with trying to turn the box over she
didn't even spot it notice her prey had vanished!

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs

(Who has just realised this means there's a large spider free in the
house....)

You still have a video? How quaint. Do you still use it?

Hey! I still have one, too. Also have a DVD player, but I use the
VCR for recording stuff to watch later. Why should I buy a digital
recorder when I have something that already works fine? I have
nothing against new technology, but I am cheap.

Joyce

You beat me to it, Joyce. I was just going to say the same thing. I use my
VCR fairly often.

Joy

"Judith Latham" wrote in message
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Lesley wrote:
On May 30, 7:52 am, Sherry wrote:
. Tarantulas are creepy just because of their sheer
size.

But can have unusual uses....where we used to live was a bad area for
gangs of kids who did things like throwing a door at me from the 5th
floor balcony (If something hadn't made me look up I wouldn't be
writing this)/ripping the head of a pigeon thse little charmers had
just airgunned then shoving it head and all through someones letter
box... you get the picture

The lady next door had a Mexican bird eating spider called "Lyon" (Cos
he was always "Lying still"- must have been a cat in a previous life
and hadn't got out of the habit of extensive napping) and the kids
used to yell abuse at her whilst demanding to come in and see her
"Tarantula" didn't seem to occur to them that abusing her was not
likely to achieve a result and anyway even if they'd asked nicely no
way was she going to invite them in- it would have been a lot easier
to just dump her stuff on the pavement and ask them to take it all way
'cos that's what they would have done if she'd let them in..One day we
were standing outside and a gang of these kids came up and started
asking us if we'd perform acts of a sexual nature (I am being polite
here) and generally threatening us and she said "Do you wanna see my
spider?"so they started saying they did not believe she had a spider
so she calmly reached into her pocket and took out a Band Aid box-
their general opinion was no way did this fornicating female dog (As I
say I am being polite) keep her imaginary spider in a Band Aid
box..She opened the box and tilted it slightly and out came some very
long hairy legs.....followed by the spiders face....at this point the
whole lot of them ran off screaming.....

She never had any trouble with them again as none of them obviously
knew all spiders moult their exoskeleton and what she had was the
shell from Lyon's last moult


Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs

What a brilliant idea!!! She proved that they were really scaredy kids.

Judith

It's usually the ones who try to act tough that really aren't. I applaud
her!

Jill

"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote in message
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Sherry wrote:


I've had that happen before, too. It *is* freaky and more than a
little disconcerting.
But I've never sprayed, and never had a real infestation of spiders.
I
just "catch and release" for the most part.
I've noticed some years are worse than others for spiders--maybe
weather
conditions affect their numbers.
But I totally understand. *One* spider is no big deal, but seeing
gazillions of
them is creepy. Tarantulas are creepy just because of their sheer
size.

And yet, some people keep them as pets!


When I was in the second grade in Vista, CA, the teacher had a pet
tarantula. When it died, she had it encased in lucite and kept it on her
desk as a paper weight

Jill