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To suddenly hate spiders at age 47 (a little long)?

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flummoxedlummox · 08/08/2013 22:41

I've never had a problem with spiders, apart from one other incident a few years ago which wasn't the spiders fault. I even had a spider living on the ceiling for several weeks above my bed, I named it Norman.

Anyhowwho, 15 minutes ago (it's taken this long for me to recover) I'm sitting happily perusing the loveliness and light vipers nest that is MN on my laptop when a huuuge spider crawls over from the back of my laptop screen to the front.

a) I spew a mouthful of Guinness over the laptop, wall and computer desk.

b) Fall over backwards sitting on my chair landing on my poor dog who was happily sleeping on her bed. Dog is still giving me baleful looks.

So, AIBU to suddenly have developed a hatred of spiders at my age?

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wintertimeisfun · 08/08/2013 22:48

nah, i am more nervous about loads of things than i used to be although i have always been scared of large spiders :-D this is the time of year when the buggers appear. i am alot more scared of flying too

frogspoon · 08/08/2013 22:59

YANBU

I'm not scared of spiders, but I just found a massive one (2 inch legs) in my bed and it did almost made me jump.

It was one of these (except it only had seven legs)

Still feeling a little jittery now.

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flummoxedlummox · 08/08/2013 23:03

Feeling calmer now, but just remembered in all the kerfuffle the spider disappeared.

frogspawn yy this one was about two inch leg size though may have to check if I find it . Seven legs? Do you have spider traps in your bed?

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flummoxedlummox · 08/08/2013 23:04

Apols frogspoon

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quesadilla · 08/08/2013 23:15

There is nothing unreasonable about hating them. I live in abject terror of the things (I am so afraid i wont even type the wird.) they haunt my dreams and if I could rid the world of them I would.
Nuclear holocaust is too good for them.

craftycottontail · 08/08/2013 23:17

My DH used to feel like that and I had to be the spider killer in our house. Now we've had a baby he's suddenly decided he's manly enough to deal with them himself, hooray Grin

YANBU, people are obviously changable!

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flummoxedlummox · 08/08/2013 23:22

quesadilla I don't think I've reached the point of wanting the entire species dead as I've always hated flies.

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BrokenSunglasses · 08/08/2013 23:26

YANBU.

quesadilla · 08/08/2013 23:30

flummoxed yes but that would be a rational, clear-headed approach to it.

To give you some sense of the scale of my arachnophobia, I tried to talk my DH out of going away for a week last summer because I didn't know how I would cope if I saw one. A run in with even a medium sized one leaves my adrenaline in overdrive for days and unable to sleep.

Crinkle77 · 09/08/2013 14:15

Yanbu and I hate this time of year when the massive ones appear. I can cope with the smaller ones but those huge harvestmen terrify me. It is the way they run so fast and their big hairy legs. Even the thought makes me feel sick. LAst year I woke up to find one on the pillow next to me and I was so petrified that I had to get up at 7am on my day off. I am so paranoid that I have to check my clothes before I put them on and check the bed before I get in it. Although I hate them I don't like to kill them as they get rid of flies

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