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blythe025

Spiders and other creepy-crawlies.

Jun 23, 2006 14:59

Last night I was walking away from my desk, I spotted a huge, fat, ugly spider running across the floor. As I freaked, shrieked, and jumped up on tip-toes to avoid it, the spider changed direction and began running straight for me. More shrieking ensued as it passed me, heading for the desk. I attempted to beg and bribe my brother into killing the ( Read more... )

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freakin_sweet June 23 2006, 22:56:09 UTC

MIce are more terrified of us than we of them. Rats get rather ballsy though. I have two (quite tame) as pets (in addition to four dogs and five cats. One dog technically is not my and shouldn't be staying long though.) Spiders I will carefully scoop into a dish and move them either outdoors or to the far end of the house. Snakes scare the living bejesus out of me, dead or alive. I worked for awhile on overcoming this phobia with my brother-in-laws pet snake, but the idiot drove to Alabama with said snake, and then left poor Seven in his cage, in the car-with the windows up-for a good six hours. Seven fried to death in his cage. :o( Other reptiles I don't mind so much.

blythe025 June 23 2006, 23:26:08 UTC

Eeek, poor seven. I know a lot of people who are afraid of snakes, so while I don't get it (I love 'em), I certainly understand.

With spiders . . . I'm always kind of freaked out about any poison or reaction I might get from being bitten. Plus I get that whole crawly feeling under my skin. :)

freakin_sweet June 24 2006, 00:50:10 UTC

I live in the land of brown recluse,..and there's another poisonus one around here I can never recall the name of. I think the Indiana Jones movie--with the snake pit--is what started the snake phobia thing. I don't remember being afraid of them before that. My grandparents live in the mountains, and snakes are plentious (?) up there, so I got used to seeing them all of the time. I even attempted to bag a dead one to put in my older cousins bed after he wrecked my bike. That was after the IJ movie though.

blythe025 June 24 2006, 01:40:25 UTC

Yeah, we have brown recluse here, too, I think. And black widows, and many other kinds, though I'm not sure which ones are actually poisonous.

That's a pretty good/bad trick to pull on your cousin. I'm impressed. While I like snakes, don't think I'd mess with them dead though. Don't know why -- just gross dead things, I guess.

freakin_sweet June 24 2006, 01:53:47 UTC

Yeah,..I wanted to be a mortician/medical examiner when I grew up, but dead things are better seen at a distance, fascinating as they may be. My friend that lived near my grandparents and I spent a LOT of time burying dead birds, squirrls, fish and such that we would stumble across. The space under my grandparents porch is a boneyard of little animals!

Black widows--we have those. THEY ARE CREEPY.

blythe025 June 24 2006, 04:52:32 UTC

You created your own little pet semetary under your grandma's porch, huh. I think I would freak out if I knew there was a pet cemetary under the porch and then I read that book. ;)

freakin_sweet June 25 2006, 01:23:10 UTC

Her side of the family is very haunted, so it doesn't bother her at all; but it scares the HELL out of my kids when they go up there. They think her house is haunted, and claim to have seen various 'things' there! I don't doubt them either. I grew up on familly ghost stories. Therefore I technically should be OK around dead bodies and should really be an ME, but I got the screwy part of the gene pool. Damn't. @___@ I'm excellent at funerals; those bodies I can handle. Weird.

blythe025 June 25 2006, 01:32:08 UTC

Wow, freaky as that is, it's really cool, too. Wish I had some family ghost stories in my family. :)

Have you read Stiff by Mary Roach. It's all about human cadavers and what happens to them, and how they are used when the bodies are donated to science. It's really fascinating, and she handles it in a way where it's not too gross.

She recently wrote another book which handles belief in life after death. Though I haven't read that one yet.

freakin_sweet June 25 2006, 01:51:47 UTC

That waas is on my list. I recently read Corpse which covers a history of forensics and the beginngs of the Body Farm in Tennessee. I can't think of the guys name that wrote it.

I don't think my grandparents house is haunted, but it is creepy. It's in the middle of nowhere, and it's so much darker at night. bears and wild cats running around and things like that; tis very creepy. My aunt in Michigan has a VERY haunted house. My other grandmom did too, but sold it a while back. Both sides of my family are haunted. *shivers*

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