Spiders and other creepy-crawlies.

[blythe025]

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

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[freakin_sweet]

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]

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]

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]

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.

[layer]

i love mice, but having one run across my foot... mostly because i kept thinking rabies.

[blythe025]

I would probably freak out by the sudden contact, but I woulnd't consider it creepy. Though the rabies thing is certainly something to consider -- still though. :)

[mortaine]

Snakes give me the heebies when I see them, because the part of my brain descended from smaller mammals sees the reptilian movement and goes "EEEP!"

I said "any kind of insect" in your poll, though it's not actually "any" kind of insect. It's "earwigs." Earwigs give me the jeebies, big time. Also, maggots in my kitchen. Actually, any bug in my kitchen makes me go ballistic.

[blythe025]

Earwigs and magots -- definitely jeebie inducing.

[earthdog]

Rats and raccoons totally creep me out. I am always afraid I will get rabies.

[blythe025]

Hm. I have never really freaked out about rabies, but it's definitely a concern with wild animals.

[junglemonkee]

In all those scary movies where some kind of tiny thing - army men, dolls, sentient bugs have evil intelligence and want to kill the good guy, they're always shown lurking in cupboards and potted plants and creeping behind the sofa, waiting to kill the unsuspecting good guy who can't defend himself because tiny creepy shit never comes singly, only in huge hordes.

[blythe025]

*shivers*

That's true. One of the scariest things I've read invovled a huge wave of ants that would eat everything they came across. They moved like a river kind of just devouring every thing. And these people had to escape them, or be eaten alive by ants. Definitely shiver inducing.