How do you react when you see a spider?

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Especially a big one?

awwww sweeet

Oh no, it's not spider time of year again is it? I hate them. This thread is makling me shudder all over and I've only skimread about 5 posts. Bleurghhhhh.

If I see a big spider I scream and shout at DH to hoover it up or remove it somehow. Preferably kill it, but he prefers to put it outside where it can loiter menacingly before coming back in again. If I'm on my own I have to summon the courage to fetch the hoover myself, while shaking all over and going dizzy.

Fio, you should get rid of that huge fat spider from your house, not let it ambush you! Gahhh.

i think 'oh,ive got to put the poor thing out in the cold before dp sees it and freaks out'

i like spiders,they are good,clean things to have in the house.but i know that if i saw one and left it then dp would get revenge by putting baked beans on me

I always wait for DH to see them and shreik before putting them out.

I'm ambivalent

at least they eat the flies

Bay leaves behind all the furniture and no spiders in my house...(she said with confidence and eyes shut just in case there is one lurking)

If I do see one though, I can't breathe and run for the hoover.

I give it a steely stare then carry on my business.

It is a spider.

Oh freak!! I scream like I am being murdered. Can't stand them but strangely can't stand killing them either - the crushing noise is more than I can bear.

Hate, hate, hate daddylonglegs too - the way they clatter around the walls and fly in your face...

Don't mind mice or snakes though. Not that I have encountered many snakes in my house...

I'm a lot better than I used to be!

I don't want to get near them but I could probably remove one from the house with a glass and piece of card if I really wanted to.
I get Dh to do it though if he is here.

Thing is, if I have to remove one myself, I can guarantee i will get nightmares about them crawling all over me that night.

With disinterest

had a spider creep into the spare room last week and i went into a cold sweat screaming to ds "oh god please help me, help me please!" what a twat!

like whatever but dh feigns similar disinterest yet hops about the place saying things like "ooh look, he's over there now" etc and I think he's passed on his fear to ds (3) who ran up the stairs today to tell me there was a spider downstairs and that it was very big and ran very fast!

I think "Ooh that's interesting, how amazing" I love it in the autumn when they make their webs in bushes and you see them with all the early mornign dew on
Spiders are great!

I don't like the idea of them getting into my hair though as I have a long, thick curly hair and it might take a while to get it out!

doh - minus the a

It's the way they move so fast... and their big black crunchy bodies. And their long, black, scuttly, hairy legs. I swear they are trying to get into my mouth...

I KNOW it's irrational. But fear is not always rational. I could hold a venomous, 5ft long snake (I have actually) quite happily but make me hold a 1mm wide spider?? No sireee.

Gibberish - your post could be mine!

I go 'Waaahhh!' and get a glass and leave it under there until dp gets home and he lets it run free in the garden, only to come back later I'm sure.
Really hate daddy-long-legs 'Shut that window with the light on!! You'll let in all the daddies!!' and those Harvestmen, urghhh! I don't feel so bad about killing them though and they go up the hoover, condemned to a dusty death, poor things

My fear is rodents. Don't like beetles either.

Used to be absolutely fucking terrified , but since becoming a single parent, have looked my arachnaphobia straight in the face & just get on with scooping them up on a bit of paper, or on the end of the duster, & helping them outside - all the while telling DD how lovely & fascinating they are. Seems to be working so far. She thinks spiders are cute

Also, coming face to face with an adder in my garden a couple of times recently has put my phobia into perspective somewhat...

... eek!

spinspinsugar (great name -love that track) I agree. In Oz it's a different thing altogether

I quite like garden spiders though, they're quite cute (in a fashion) and smallish spiders. It's those massive house spiders, but I still couldn't kill them.
MIL kills them and reasons it with 'Well, if I walked into a spider's front room then it'd be well within it's rights to kill me too' What are you on??!

Well I regularly walk into spiders front rooms (being tall and daft)as I never notice cobwebs til it's too late. Not one of em has ever tried to kill me. Bless

m dh is nearly 6ft tall and well built,he calls me to come and remove them !

Late breaking news...MAMMOTH spider season seems to have started in Cambridge....bathrooms across town are being evacuated...

Seriously I have never seen a UK spider of the size that is currently lurking in my bathroom. I put my hand against it for comparison and reckon it had a leg span of 10-12 cm (not stretched out, either). There's no way you'd fit it in a pint glass.

While I'm normally live and let live with spiders, I'm gonna have to hunt this one down just to submit it to the arachnid version of 'record breakers'. There's also a very real chance that DS2 will attempt to eat it, so capture and rehoming is going to be safest all round.