You're on your bed, you look up and notice THIS in the corner of you room.

[Drunken Irishman]

What do you do?

What DO you do?

[unsavedtrash]

1. get a fork and hot sauce!

That's good eatin!

:hide:

[Drunken Irishman]

2. I should've known...you're from Alabama. :P

[unsavedtrash]

3. over grits of course!

heh.

[trof]

30. DEEP FRIED!

[Rambis]

101. Give up drink!

:evilgrin:

[Guava Jelly]

4. First

I'd slowly roll out of bed.
Grab one sheet and one can of raid.
Slowly cover the floor below the arachnids.
Step back and spray the shit out of them.
Then go sleep on the couch.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

67. to get away from the poison they will all run into the living room and seek safety under the couch

[RevolutionaryActs]

5. Have a panic attack

hyperventilate and die. :scared::cry:

[Guava Jelly]

8. Oh noes!

I'll kill them for ya Rev. :hug:

[RevolutionaryActs]

10. I don't do spiders.

I think I have arachnophobia. :scared:

[lukasahero]

96. Good god yes

My hands are sweating just looking at the picture. I'm pretty sure I would not survive seeing that in my neighborhood, never mind the same room I'm in. :scared:

[JenaLaw]

6. slowly crawl out of bed...

...seal off the room and call Terminex!

Tent the place if necessary...that is a scary intruder.

[peacefreak]

7. Probably

stop drinking the cheap shit.

[SCantiGOP]

108. as they said at Woodstock

The brown acid is not particularly good.

[Shakespeare]

9. Set fire to the place and find a new place to live.

It's the only option.

[Connonym]

44. This is the only sane response n/t

[RoyGBiv]

46. Correct answer ...

I'd never be able to sleep in the place again.

[LoveMyCali]

117. That was exactly what I was thinking

:scared:

[AbbeyRoad]

121. We think alike

That was the first thing that popped into my mind.

[Parche]

11. Its A Tholian Web

:woohoo: :hi:

[av8rdave]

12. They're so cute when they're babies, aren't they?

[LisaL]

19. Yep. Mama and babies-adorable.

[azmouse]

13. The first thing I'd do would involve toilet paper...

The second would be calling an exterminator from my cell phone cause I'd be outta there!

[EastTennesseeDem]

14. Depends on how many hits of the stuff you took

[sammythecat]

15. Is that for real!?

Is it really as big as it looks?

I consider myself fairly tolerant of spiders but that would absolutely freak me out. Maybe it did this before and all the others are having babies all over the house. I think it'd be a while till I could fall asleep in that house again, seriously. That is creepy as hell.

I hope this is some kind of photoshop. Is it?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

16. Scream very loudly, run away,

shut the door to the room and never open it again.

I'm not usually all that afraid of spiders, but THAT would push me over the edge.

[SarahB]

17. Say to my husband,

"OK, this time I'm going to be all girly and make YOU kill the spider!" :scared:

[csziggy]

122. That's what I did last night! When I opened the door to call the cat a large spider came instead

So I put a garbage can on top of it to keep it confined and called dear hubby down from upstairs to take care of it. He's cool with spiders - catches them and lets them free outside.

[LisaL]

18. Feed them. They are so cute.

[Fire Walk With Me]

20. Wonder how you've awoken in Australia?

Then see if the toilet water spins in the opposite direction.

[kentauros]

31. I know, really!

Then try and find someone that knows why you're in Australia and if it has to do with scientific teleportation or Maori Dreaming magic or if they just drugged you and kidnapped you to wake up in Australia for their nefarious purposes :P

[tekisui]

21. Poop in my pants a little.

Then, spray them with whatever chemical I can fine.

[quakerboy]

22. leave Australia and never return

the spiders aren't so problematic, but I believe scorpions live there, and I do not like scorpions.

[XemaSab]

56. There are scorpions here too

:shrug:

Plus tarantulas. :D

[quakerboy]

90. Here?

Where is here exactly? Cause I chose to live somewhere with an absolute minimum of venemous critters, and I do it on purpose. A lack of scorpions is high on my list of priorities in choosing an area to reside.

I don't really mind snakes. Ive met my share of rattlers and they never did me any harm. Spiders, again met my share, and the worst I that ever happened was I became very ill and grew a new vein. I don't like em, but they generally mind their own business. But scorpions are their own world. No thanks.

[XemaSab]

91. California

Probably Oregon too. They're rarely seen, and unless you turn over a lot of rocks, you're unlikely to see one.

[quakerboy]

92. Not my part of Oregon

I got out of California while the getting was good. Now I know you have scorpions I am even less likely to darken your border.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

23. Get the vacuum and

send them to spider heaven :)

[Fire Walk With Me]

62. We're gonna need a bigger vacuum.

[lukasahero]

97. .

:spray:

[Lil Missy]

24. I'd piss myself.

[Generic Brad]

25. I know one thing

It would not end well.

[WinkyDink]

26. Pretty much freak out!!

[Iggo]

27. Die of a heart attack. (n/t)

[Kali]

28. I'd jump up and go look for something to put them in.

Cool!

[hunter]

29. Are they poisonous? Do they bite?

If not, go back to sleep.

My brothers and I used to keep black widow spiders in glass jars and feed them live flies we caught with our hands. It was a bit Addams Family at our house. When I first met my wife she had a pet tarantula.

[Deja Q]

32. Find William Shatner. He knows what to do with spiders...

:evilgrin:

[Deja Q]

33. I'd tell Mrs Spider to buy some condoms for hubby or at least to stop watching the Duggar channel.

:hide:

[graywarrior]

34. Quit taking acid.

[Deja Q]

35. Buy them some flies and watch the herd feast on them

[Mugu]

36. Put the macro lens on the camera.

[Jamastiene]

58. I love love love to see those closeups of spiders.

I especially love closeups of their eyes. They are so adorable close up. :bounce:

[Deja Q]

37. Spill nuclear material on them, let them bite you, become Spiderman and get it on with Kirsten Dunst

:hide:

[Inchworm]

70. Ding ding ding!

:rofl:

:thumbsup:

[Whoa_Nelly]

38. Would have to bring in the Spider Dog

Bigger and stronger!
Would save the day!

SPIDER DOG!

[flvegan]

39. Grab my flamethrower and go to work.

[krispos42]

77. WD-40 and a lighter works for me.

Spray-spray-spray-spray-spray

-THEN-

flick the Bic (while still spraying)



I've got 3 industrial-sized fire extinguishers on my floor. I'll deal with the conflaguration. Once I haul the charred corpse of the spider to the building manager and/or the arson investigator, I'm sure I'll be cleared.

[wartrace]

40. Shop Vac! STAT!

I would grab my shop vac, it would make quick work of those things.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

41. Sell my house

:scared:

[tigereye]

42. fire your house-keeping staff?

j/k - I'd run for the vacuum, I think. Usually I try to place spiders elsewhere if I can, but that one looks kinda big :scared:

[redqueen]

43. That's not real, is it?

Please tell me that's not real.

I would hide under the covers with my cell phone and call for help, seriously.

[Lucian]

45. Kill the fucking thing!

[ElsewheresDaughter]

65. .didn't you ever read the book "Be Nice to Spiders"?

[Lucian]

68. No, and don't care to.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

47. Be glad I always pack extra drawers. n/t

[krispos42]

48. Bolt from the apartment at hypersonic speeds

Pause outside my door to deal with the adrenaline surge. Check the status of my undies. Pound on property manager's door. Tell them to deal with it before I kill it wih fire.

Not sleep for a week.

[Forkboy]

49. Looks like a 12 change of underwear day.

[buzzycrumbhunger]

50. This is why the Dyson was invented

I don't know how I got talked into Florida because I have a serious thing about bugs, so I have to leave the thing plugged in and ready to go at a moment's notice. Surprisingly, spiders are pretty fragile and seem to die upon impact.

FYI, a Dyson can catch a roach a foot away (6" if they're hanging on to your goddamned popcorn ceiling shit) and snap the spine of a good-sized rodent.

Is there a proper emoticon for a bad case of the willies? This one doesn't seem to quite capture the revulsion factor. :scared:

[GreenPartyVoter]

52. A Dyson? Never heard of one, but are you really sure a critter that big can fit inside?

[buzzycrumbhunger]

60. Good grief!

You've never heard of Dyson?


Yes, it would fit. If not, the suction would MAKE it fit. That thing could suck the guts out of a sheep.

[GreenPartyVoter]

107. Not only had I never heard of one, but when you said Dyson I was thinking of this instead

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere

Pretty sure you could fit a spidey into one of those. LOL

[buzzycrumbhunger]

114. The weirdest thing about that is

that my son linked me to the very same page not that long ago. Of course, he was just talking about string theory and not vacuum cleaners.

Synchronicity has a very strange sense of humor sometimes. :)

[GreenPartyVoter]

118. Very strange. LOL

[Ava]

51. oh my god

i'm going to have nightmares :cry:

why on earth did i click on this thread? i should have known better :cry:

[friedgreentomatoes]

53. Same here...

I clicked on it, and on the initial screen I could see a couple of creepy crawly legs, so I knew it was a spider thread. So I covered the pic with my hand and scrolled down. I was all happy, reading the responses w/o having to look at the pic, and WHAM! mid-thread there is another spider pic x(
Who was it? WHO WAS IT! :wtf:

[crimsonblue]

88. Holy shit! That thing's real?

I thought it was one of those Halloween prop spiders. FUCK THAT!

[BeachBaby]

54. Ditto that.

I can't believe I saw this right before bed. Should make for interesting dreams. :scared:

[begin_within]

66. I think that's the "clock spider" or "huntsman spider" which is in Australia, not here.

[XemaSab]

55. Try to hit it with the STREAM of bodily fluids coming out of my hind end

:scared:

[Rhythm]

57. Put you on 'ignore' for posting that without a suitable warning...

~ fucker ~

j/k about the 'iggy', but dayum, dude. Seriously... give an arachnophobe a heads-up, will ya?

[InvisibleTouch]

59. Eh, live and let live.

I like spiders, and don't mind a few cohabitating with me. They eat the mosquitoes in the summer. With such a big family, though, I'd probably try to gather up mom & babies and set them outside (in decent weather, of course), where they could really hunt.

In winter weather ... well, I might keep the mom, but the babies (sorry to say it) would likely become food for my lizards. Yeah, I like spiders, but I'm big on the food chain too. :)

[Jamastiene]

61. Grab my pitiful, ancient camcorder and the tripod, then

get as many light sources as possible and camp out.

Then of course, I'd YouTube it and post it on DU for everyone to see how inhospitable this place is.

We have Carolina Wolf Spiders here. They are just as big, but believe it or not, they are the LEAST of my worries.

They don't do webs or ceilings, thankfully. They mostly march across the floor in the middle of the night in their little spider sized combat boots. They sound like a horde of human sized intruders when they do too. If people ate them, I could make a killing, selling them by the pound.

There are hundreds of them around my yard. If you stand still long enough, they'll come inspect you to see if you are suitable(translated: slow) enough to hunt you down and eat you for supper. Don't underestimate how fast they can run. They have several speeds that I have witnessed firsthand. They can jog, if they have to, to prolong the hunt if you are too slow.

Of course, if you stand still long enough near the fire ant mounds in my yard, the fire ants will make quick work of you before the Carolina Wolf Spider can get to you, then they'll lay in wait for the Wolf Spider and eat him too, for dessert. Tough luck Wolfie. You snooze, you lose, kiddo.

That is, if the cow killers don't get to you before the fire ants do. If the cow killers sting you, it'll make you wish you'd never been born.

Then, there is the mystery bug that did SOMETHING to me while I was weed eating the triffids around the ramp/deck one summer. I was weed eating the triffids, when all of a sudden, something bit or stung my right ass cheek. My eyes opened wider than they ever had before...at that point.

Next thing I remember, after taking my pants off in the yard (not for fun this time), was laying in a fetal position on the couch with my pants around my ankles, holding an ice cube directly on the bite/sting right on my right ass cheek. Yes, I remember WHICH ass cheek it was. I'll NEVER forget which ass cheek it was. I'll never forget that whole ordeal. It was worse than any pain I have ever known and I have migraines and spina bifida.

Then, there was later that same day. After passing out on the couch from the immense pain, I woke up with something tickling my stomach. I had de-shirted and de-clothed, in general, mostly at that point. I reached to brush off the tickling feeling and felt a bug. It had a hard shell. I was trying to hold it still while I found something to kill it with.

That was a mistake.

All I could find was the lighter and I was debating on whether to let go of the bug and burn the hell out of my stomach or hold on to the bug and burn the hell out of my fingers.

What to DO?

That's when I realized that this certain bug
"Little Bastard - closeup with inset for sizing"


"Little Bastard - with ruler for sizing"


had jaws like a Pez Dispenser.

I let go instinctively when it opened its mouth like that. I could have sworn I saw teeth. I lay there in horror as it chomped a PIECE out of my stomach. I shit you not. It took a PIECE out of my stomach.

That was when my eyes opened the widest they ever have to this day. That was the fastest I have ever woke up from a deep sleep. I'll never forget the horror as it opened it's mouth and bit the living HELL out of my stomach.

After the Little Bastard chomped down, I was FULLY awake then.

I immediately jumped up off the couch, fully awake although still very wobbly from whatever had bitten my ass and knocked me out earlier in the day, and screamed better than Yvonne De Carlo EVER screamed. If there had been audio of that scream, it could be used in place of every woman screaming in every horror movie of the future.

Then, I got pissed off. I hunted the little bastard down, beat him to death for his transgression, and scanned him for your viewing pleasure, in hopes that someone would be able to identify him. Better yet, my hopes were that someone could identify which type of chemical warfare I needed to use to combat the little fuckers. I never did find out. Now, I just know, don't fucking touch those little bastards. They have teeth and bite literal chunks out of your skin. I still have a scar on my stomach. It actually bled.

That was a horrible day mowing the triffids. All days mowing the triffids are horrible. I have someone come do it for me now. They sometimes flee, screaming, from my yard too. I should tip them knowing how bad it is out there. It's not a yard. It's a jungle.

Then, this past fall, I was walking past my aunt's bathroom door. The door was closed. We keep it closed because we made an access for her and her scooter from the bedroom.

She told me she thought she saw a scorpion and to look in that area for it. While I was looking, I turned the light on in the foyer...That's when I saw it. It was a magnificent, perfect, huge spider web all the way across the bathroom door. In the center was the spider. It was one of those yellow and black argiope spiders that put the zig zag in the center of their web. It had somehow gotten INSIDE MY HOUSE and set up housekeeping.

I never did find the scorpion.

Sigh.

Then, there are the triffids, themselves. They are all thorny and have eyes that follow you around the yard. Other than that, they meet you eye to eye when you step out the door even though you just mowed them down a week ago. Mostly, the triffids just cause the lawn mower to cut off from the strain of trying to cut them and cause you to have to sharpen the blades on the mower (after buying higher quality blades) AT LEAST ONCE, per mowing.

The triffids, while annoying and thorny, are at least not TOO PAINFUL. The bugs they harbor, though, I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. I don't need any stinking moat. I have triffid dwelling bugs that bite, sting, wear combat boots, and have mouths like Pez Dispensers.

Anybody who found themselves wondering around in my yard wouldn't make it very long. The mutant biting, stinging bugs would leave no trace of them either.

It's damn creepy in my yard.

I shit you not.

So, if i woke up and saw that in my bedroom. I'd just know not to try to touch it and to find a way to co-exist. I've had to learn to co-exist with other horrors already. What's one more spider and her zillions of babies? Maybe, they'll eat all the Little Bastards, cow killers, and fire ants.

That? That's nothing. Pfft.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

69. LMAO....you need to write...I mean books!...you are one hell of a story teller!.....Thank you

[Jamastiene]

71. Thank you.

I'd love nothing more. I have some stories to tell. I'm naturally clumsy and if there is something that can go wrong, it will go wrong with me. I have to document it somehow, lol. It's all so painful and funny in retrospect. :)

[BulletproofLandshark]

73. Holy shit.

I'd move to the Arctic Circle if I had to deal with all that.

[Jamastiene]

79. After a while, you learn the ropes and get used to it.

I've discovered three great rules for dealing with them:

1. Don't stand still in the yard for too long. Translated: Five seconds and you could be carried off by hordes of ferocious, pissed off insects.

2. Spray the house TWICE in the fall when they start trying to move in. After the initial territorial battle for INSIDE THE HOUSE in the fall, it gets easier.

3. Don't step on them or touch them in any way, if you know what's good for you. These aren't the "petting" types of critters around here.

and one rule just to grow on:
When inside the city limits, know that one of these bugs may be lurking there too. Just because I lived in the city limits until I was 32 years old, doesn't mean these bugs were never around in the city. It just means there were fewer of them around. So, I had less contact.

I really do believe all insects and critters in the city limits are friendlier and more civilized. Out here in the country, they are brutal and HUNGRY.

[krispos42]

76. You need to move to Minnesota

Where the cold KILLS DEAD all insects for six months out of the year!



Keee-rist! :scared:

[Jamastiene]

80. After some of the days I have had here,

I'd be tempted to go buy some major cold weather clothing and try that. I'm sort of getting used to it now, but there are still those nights when I stay up "reading" (translated: I keep the lights on for as long as possible to look the room for any lurking hungry, pissed off things before I go to sleep).

Also, there are still those nights when my boy cat, Yogi, brushes up against me while I'm asleep and we both end up standing on the floor with the lights on and shocked looks on our faces in the middle of the night.

He has learned that I am "jumpy" since we moved out here. If it's any consolation, when I encountered my first Carolina Wolf Spider, he was the one who found it. He alerted me to its presence and then hid behind my legs the whole time I did battle with it. He was scared of it.

I ended up chasing the wolf spider from the laundry room to the kitchen sink. They can run up vertical terrain, like the kitchen cabinets, easily. That was a dilemma all its own. The spider was too big to fit down the drain, so I had to continue doing battle with it until I finally learned that even when cornered, they aren't apt to really hurt me. The worst he did was rear up his front 2 legs at me. It almost looked like a surrender. I started feeling sorry for him at one point.

That's when I started getting over my fear of spiders. The wolf spiders are just SO BIG here. It was creepy at first. Now, I don't freak about them so much. I look for spiders and try not to touch them, but I mostly leave them alone now. They eat the other stuff. It's the other insects/bugs here that are damned dangerous.

Yogi won't go near most of the bugs here. Even Sunday Girl, my older girl cat, with her expert hunting skills and ravenous appetite (anything that is not nailed down is fair game) won't mess with most of the bugs out here.

I think the night I got pissed off when the Little Bastard bit me like that was the night I changed from city girl to sort of in between city and country girl. I still don't want them ON ME, but I can coexist.

[krispos42]

84. **Wikis "wolf spider"***

Ack!

***Google Images search for "wolf spider"***

ACK! ACK! ACK!

KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!



You need to pave your lawn and paint it green! :scared:

[Jamastiene]

89. Awww, they are not so bad once you realize they are more afraid

of you than you are of them. If you want a real thrill, shine a flashlight toward the ground in your yard in the summer. You can see their eyes as they sit in their burrows. :evilgrin:
http://www.creepycrawlyzoo.com/wolf_spider.htm


Here is what the emerald green reflection looks like: (It's a rather large picture)




It's the biting, stinging crap in my yard that I want to get rid of. The wolf spiders come in handy for some of that. They eat anything up to and including their own size. :)

[PaddyBlueEyes]

63. flamethrower

..or deodorant and a lighter, at least!!

[ElsewheresDaughter]

64. awww she looks like she's a good momma......didn't you ever read the book "Be Nice to Spiders"?

[emilyg]

72. All those things from one Momma?

[Inchworm]

74. We had a spider birthing upstairs a few years ago

They were much smaller and had a red tint.

My daughter hollered.. da..dad . .DAD .. DAAaaaAAaaD!!@!

I thought she was nuts and told her that 'til I went up there. We sat there and watched them for a bit until they started getting a bit far from where they all started.

Hoover saved the day.

:P

[texanwitch]

75. That is Charlotte and her babies.

I loved Charlotte's Web.

[Robeson]

78. Put the bottle down.

[ghostsofgiants]

81. Cry.

A lot.

[Tektonik]

82. move out

[BreweryYardRat]

83. Depends. In my nice bug-free apartment...

...shoo it out or go get the vacuum. That or see if it/they can eat one of my roommates' friends' Chihuahua.

In my mother's roach-filled rathole of a house? (She refuses to use pest control. Even outside. Even organic non-toxic stuff like cedar flakes. Even though her backyard's a jungle. In FLORIDA. Yet another reason we don't get along.) Far as I'm concerned, if it ain't poisonous, it can stay. Spiders eat roaches. That makes them all right in my book.

[Broken_Hero]

85. Jesus....

I'd catch my breathe...and then dispatch of the intruders, in an orderly fashion...

[Pierre.Suave]

86. Roll over and go back to bed...

But seriously, I would not panic, just take care of it somehow...

[crimsonblue]

87. scream like a schoolboy bitch..

and then grab a towel and smack it until it is no longer recognizable.

[Jamastiene]

93. Would you wet the towel first and snap it on their asses?

:evilgrin:

I can't help it. That was the first thought that came to my mind when I read that. I've never heard of a towel for spider fighting. Baseball bats, brooms, hunting knives, BB guns, yes, but I've never heard of anyone using a towel. :rofl:

[crimsonblue]

104. had i any of those things, I'd use them

I guess I do have a broom, but a spider that fracking huge would make me lose all rationality.

[SoDesuKa]

94. First, Calm Down

You can tell by looking at the web that the spider has been there for some time - it did not just arrive. If it wasn't so threatened by you that it had babies in a very visible place in your house, it's probably not such a threat to you either.

Got a bug question? Ask Professor Kimsey, who is chair of the Entomology Department at the University of California, Davis. That's California's premier agicultural college, and Professor Kimsey is generous with her time. On her website, she invites people to send in insect questions.

http://entomology.ucdavis.edu/faculty/facpage.cfm?id=kimsey

I'm going to send her an e-mail and ask her what she thinks. I will post her answer here.

[Jamastiene]

95. Spiders are good.

Creepy, but good. I wouldn't worry too much.

[texas1928]

98. Leave a Texas1928 size and shaped hole in the wall.

Then get the biggest bug bomb I can find and bomb the hell out of the whole damn house, then spray ortho all over the place.

[Zuiderelle]

99. It's the entire arachnid cast of Arachnophobia!

There are at least 100 little babies there.

[NJmaverick]

100. MOVE! Immediately

[originalpckelly]

102. KILL IT WITH FIRE! THEN KILL FIRE WITH EXTINGUISHER!

[KG]

103. before or after I wet my pants?

[Rabrrrrrr]

105. Leave house as fast as possible. Go to friend's house. Stay there. Call professional in morning.

Tell professional bug guy to do whatever it takes AND that he has to clean everything up, dispose of everything, and do it out of my sight because I'm leaving and/or waiting outside (if it's warm enough) and not entering the house again until he tells me it's clear.

I then tell professional bug guy while I'm paying him that he's completely out of his mind batshit insane totally fucking nutters, and that I am very thankful he is.

[ET Racer]

106. Sweet!

Sadly, the mother is dying, and she will be food for her young until they moult a time or two..
I love Wolf spiders..they really are docile unless they're hungry.

[Shell Beau]

109. Get the f**k out!

And typically spiders don't scare me but DAMN!!!!

[bikebloke]

110. It's bad luck to kill a spider.

Unless you're in Sweden, then it only causes it to rain.

I don't mind a spider or two living with me in my flat. They eat any other wee critters crawling about.

Though while camping in Australia, I woke one night with a monster spider (wearing army boots) sitting a few inches over my head on the mesh. I evicted that one with my bicycle pump.

[snooper2]

111. When the babies hatch it's like Charlottes Web

The end of the movie when her babies fly away in the wind---


I pulled the car in the garage pre-hail storm last year, and was sitting there drinking a beer and saw some little things falling on the car- then more- all baby spiders....


Talk about freaking the fuck out- I kept looking for the sac and mom but nowhere to be found....most of them had a very short life span- and I usually just move spiders I find inside outside. This was too much... :)

[Heidi]

112. I would get up, go to my laptop and check www.bugmenot.com to see if they're a threat.

If they're a threat, I would turn the situation over to our resident handler of creepy threats, Call Me Wesley. If they're not a threat, I'd get the dust mop, gently sweep 'em down and leave the dust mop on the patio overnight to ensure their safe relocation.

I might get flamed for this, but I'm pretty sure our local spiders were here before I was, so unless they're threatening me, I'm not gonna do more than relocate them to the great outdoors. :hi:

[Jamastiene]

120. You won't get any flames from me.

That is exactly what I try to do nowadays, since "Little Bastard" (not a spider, see post above) bit me. I kind of like the spiders now. I know they'll eat all the "Little Bastards" flying around here.

[MrScorpio]

113. Spraycan Blowtorch?

[Connonym]

126. I actually did that once

I must have been 19 or so and I was in Florida. There was some giant bug on my hotel room wall and I took my Aquanet and a lighter and whoosh. I don't know if it actually incinerated the bug but the bug DID disappear. In retrospect I realize that I could have burned down the entire hotel but at the time I didn't care.

[Sugar Smack]

115. Scream. Grab the cat. Drive to Florida.

GAWD, just the picture, JUST the picture freaks me out. :wow:

[buzzycrumbhunger]

125. LMAO. . .

Your solution is to run to one of the most bug-infested places on earth? I think Hawaii is the only state that's got it worse.

[hunter]

134. The roaches in Hawaii are as big as rats...

... and they run faster too... if they are not flying.

[Marrah_G]

116. I can't even look at the picture

I would probably just be dead because I would pass out (literally) and they would all get me :(

I am extremely phobic to the point of absurdity.

[petronius]

119. Switch sides with my wife (without telling her why, of course)... (nt)

[Drunken Irishman]

123. Imagine sleeping under that and waking up with one in your mouth.

[Career Prole]

124. I really, really need

an MP3 of Sam Kinison screaming right now...but this'll do for now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Czmb6tEwFE8

[CollegeStudent01]

127. I'm a guy...

But I'll be honest - I'd freak the heck out.

[sohndrsmith]

128. skip coffee? n/t

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

129. Well, pardner, I'd just grab my Colt 45

and drink it all down, to get enough courage to run like hell.

:hi:

[JNelson6563]

130. Get a can of hairspray and a lighter.

Or maybe some of that wasp killing stuff you can shoot from like 30' feet away. When the deed is done you vomit and find another place to live. Like in a region where they don't have that kind of scary shit. OMG. Too horrifying for words IMO.

Julie

[Maine-ah]

131. shoot it.

seriously, I don't care how big of a hole I would leave in my wall. :scared:

[peekaloo]

132. offer up a human sacrifice

and welcome your arachnid Overlord.

[dropkickpa]

133. Awwwww! It's a mama and babies!!!