"Spiders! Why did it have to be spiders?"

[servergirl]

"Why couldn't it be, 'follow the butterflies?'" I so identify with Ron Weasley. I don't really have a strong liking for spiders. For some reason, though, they always seem to make a public appearance when I'm home, in the bathroom, usually getting ready for work. Now, I know spiders are supposed to bring good luck, or something, and Lord knows I

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[spritelyone]

Word on the spiders. *shudders* Craig is my bug-killing hero.

[raisa]

I can take spiders a little bit better than other bugs. They still creep me out and I must scream, but I do let them live in my garage. I feel like we have an alliance at that point - they eat the bugs and I cheer them on. Just no crossing the threshold into my house.

[librarian_aviva]

Agreed. We actually had a few in the laundry room that all too closely resembled Shelob for my taste. The only spiders I can stand are daddy-long-legs. Ones that look like they're wearing the pelt of the last mammal they killed less than a foot from my bare foot have me grabbing containers to catch it in and calling Davey to "Look. At. That. Monster!" rather quickly... I wanted proof it wasn't just my typical arachnophobia kicking in but this thing was scary!

[pleasantlyevil]

Daddy long-legs. . . The most poisonous in the bunch. . . Excellent. . .

I have found, strangely enough, that insects probably can't handle Splenda. . . I had left out a cup that I'd had some iced tea in, sugar-free Arizona Iced Tea, in fact, and there was a little, little bit left in the bottom of the glass, surely not enough to drown a stink bug, yet there was a dead one in the bottom of the glass the next morning. I'm thinking it was the splenda, or maybe all the other crap that might be in Arizona Iced Tea. . . ;-)