Spiders scared the crap out of me! I almost ate a few!

[Evadman]

Wow, that was new.

I picked up 2 new air lines fro my compressor and was putting the quick connect ends on today. The stupid ends were machined too large to fit in the standard coupler, so I was sanding them down with some 220 paper. I went to blow the grit off one when I noticed it was full of one of those spider cucoon things. They never really bothered me or anything, and I thought it was pretty cool lookin.

I went to blow the cucoon out with my mouth so I could check the inside, but I was unable to get it out. So I took it back out and looked at it thinking about how I could get it out and came up with a skewer ( from the BBQ )

I was walking down the stairs witht he ting in hand when I felt something on my hand.

I looked down, and 3 spiders had come out of the cucoon thing and were crawling on my hand and arm!

Yes I screamed. A nice loud manly scream Scared the bejesus out of me. I ran out the back door while looking at the coucoon, and seeing more spiders come out. I threw it out my back door into the park, while I *quickly* brushed the spiders off me.

A few minutes later i went out and retrieved the fitting and used a skewer to push the cucoon ( that was still moving ) out the bottom of the fitting.

So, Thanks for scarring the sh!t out of me mother nature. Good call

 

[LOLyourFace]

why are guys so scared of spiders? I don't get it. Girls I can understand since they're scared of everything.

Spiders don't do anything. They don't naturally bite people (like ants) nor are they unsanitary (like roaches) They just wander around minding their own biz... ignore it or kill it with a tissue.. sheesh.

 

[dolph]

the average person will eat 8 spiders in their lifetime, or so snapple bottle caps would have us believe.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

As long as it was a nice manly scream there's no reason to be ashamed.

BTW, almost all people eat many spiders in their lifetimes, mostly because they can and do crawl into your mouth while you're alseep. Sleep well tonight

 

[Evadman]

I don't have problems with spiders. They are all over. It is when a ton of them come out of something that you just had your moth on, and start crawling all over you, that I got *worried*

I did manage to to kill any of them ( I think anyway ) which is cool. Go eat some annoying skeeters.

 

[thawolfman]

 

[dejitaru]

Beh, I like spiders. I have a few.

 

[Dhawk]

Yes I screamed. A nice loud manly scream Scared the bejesus out of me. I ran out the back door while looking at the coucoon, and seeing more spiders come out. I threw it out my back door into the park, while I *quickly* brushed the spiders off me.

LOL. That reminds me of once when I was hunting. I went to step over a little gulley that ran into a lake. As I started to step over it, I looked down and there was a Water Moccasin snake with it's head up in the air, in the strike position, ready to nail me. The moment I saw it, I did a 180 in mid air and let out a "not so manly scream" (like a little girl). I gained my composure, aimed and blew it ten feet in the air. Becuase it scared the p1ss out of me. Not that it deserved to die. (To all the bleeding hearts here: I felt bad afterwards and wish I hadn't shot it. Not)

 

[gopunk]

Originally posted by: LOLyourFace
why are guys so scared of spiders? I don't get it. Girls I can understand since they're scared of everything.

Spiders don't do anything. They don't naturally bite people (like ants) nor are they unsanitary (like roaches) They just wander around minding their own biz... ignore it or kill it with a tissue.. sheesh.

some spiders bite, just like some ants don't bite

 

[LOLyourFace]

umm.. ALL ants have the tendency to bite. And we're talking about those found in houses..

 

[Dragnov]

Because they look disgusting. *shudder*

 

[gopunk]

Originally posted by: LOLyourFace
umm.. ALL ants have the tendency to bite. And we're talking about those found in houses..

harvester ants don't bite unless provoked, in my experience.

 

[Ornery]

I hate 'em too. They scurry way too quick, that's the problem. The quicker they are, the more they give me the willies.

I used to pump gasoline 25 years ago. One time I flipped the license plate down to access the filler and a fair sized SOB literally jumped out toward me! Holy sh|t! :Q Well, maybe I flicked him toward me with the plate, I dunno, but I almost sh|t! Worse, instead of scurrying away when he hit the ground, he came straight toward me! Double sh|t!! :Q :Q The owner of the car is wondering WTF. The guys working with me are wondering the same... I don't care, that little SOB ain't gettin' on me!!!!! And even worse, he then headed toward the curb and disappeared in a crack, so I couldn't kill 'em!!! Triple sh|t!!! :Q :Q :Q He's probably still out there, waiting...

 

[DrVos]

*SHUDDER*

If there is one thing I cannot stand its spiders. Especially the chunky jumping ones. Gah. I feel queazy just thinking about them. Roaches, rats, snakes and the like are fine by me. But, man, spiders freak me out.

 

[Kadarin]

Yep, the only thing worse than spiders are those spider cocoon things that are just about ready to hatch.. If you just look at the thing wrong, you get an explosion of baby spiders all over the place. Blech. One time I was working on my car (that had been sitting a while), and this happened. I reached for the nearest thing I had, a spray can of carb cleaner, and killed them all in their tracks..

 

[Greyd]

Me no like spiders:frown:

US spider - reason to scream

A reason to hate spiders

Well, ok...so all spiders dont frighten me..but these two do.

 

[Cuda1447]

Originally posted by: Ornery
I hate 'em too. They scurry way too quick, that's the problem. The quicker they are, the more they give me the willies.

I used to pump gasoline 25 years ago. One time I flipped the license plate down to access the filler and a fair sized SOB literally jumped out toward me! Holy sh|t! :Q Well, maybe I flicked him toward me with the plate, I dunno, but I almost sh|t! Worse, instead of scurrying away when he hit the ground, he came straight toward me! Double sh|t!! :Q :Q The owner of the car is wondering WTF. The guys working with me are wondering the same... I don't care, that little SOB ain't gettin' on me!!!!! And even worse, he then headed toward the curb and disappeared in a crack, so I couldn't kill 'em!!! Triple sh|t!!! :Q :Q :Q He's probably still out there, waiting...

Dude omg, you just gave me the biggest laugh of my life!!!!

 

[bonk102]

i'm allergic, and i've been bitten and put in hte hospital from a spider bite, so that's why i'm afraid

 

[yobarman]

we just moved into my new house and there's all these spiders in the basement (where I sleep!) thank god im moving out in like 2 months..

 

[eakers]

Originally posted by: LOLyourFace
why are guys so scared of spiders? I don't get it. Girls I can understand since they're scared of everything.

its funny because its true.
<-- doesnt mind spiders.

 

[ddwbi0]

i was just talking about this to my roomate last night! i believe that since there are so many diff spiders, and some are poisonous....id rather kill first and ask questions later. i dont have time to learn about each and every diff kind of spider

 

[StevenYoo]

spiders... not too much of a problem...

but CENTIPEDES!!! those suckers are scary

good thing i don;t live in arizona where the BIG-ASS centipedes are.

 

[Praetor]

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
As long as it was a nice manly scream there's no reason to be ashamed.

BTW, almost all people eat many spiders in their lifetimes, mostly because they can and do crawl into your mouth while you're alseep. Sleep well tonight

:Q

/me vows to never, ever go to sleep again.

 

[Zenmervolt]

I'm generally fine with anything that I see coming. I'll watch a spider drop from the ceiling and I'll try to catch it. However, if that same spider falls on me without warning, I tend to freak. Over-active startle reflex. I'm the guy who jumps back when I'm surprised by someone coming around a corner in a hallway.

ZV