I killed a black widow in my house today...

[BigmanPigman]

15. I am afraid of spiders and have been ever since I was 8 and had hair that I could sit on.

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A neighbor boy put a Daddy Long Legs on my head and it crawled down my hair. We had a house in the mountains and they were all over the place.

As an adult a teacher friend told me not to even hang fake spiders in my classroom for Halloween since she was really afraid since she put her shoe on and a black widow was in it and it bit her. An old boyfriend thought he had food poisoning when he was vomiting violently and was in pain and had to go to the hospital. It turned out that he was bitten by a Brown Recluse when he wiped its web away (I know...DUH!). He said that if he had a gun he would have shot himself the pain was so bad. They gave him meds but the whole thing relapsed two weeks later with the same symptoms but no new spider bite. I saw a spider in the drawer of student artwork in my class (fortunately the kids had gone home). I found out first hand that spiders jump far...about 5 feet. I jumped even further. Another teacher came to try to catch it to show to her class but I made her kill it. Schools have HUNDREDS Of them underneath the lunch tables and it took the PTA to go to the school board to get rid of them.

They like dark, cool places so always have a can of Raid on hand since you never know what type of bite you may get. With the cost of Health Care it is a lot cheaper to get a can of Raid than a $50,000 hospital bill.