Reply #5: Really?

[janx]

I've known people who hate them, and I have an aversion to a spider from time to time (if it's big), but I've never understood the spide hatred. I dated a guy for awhile who was petrified of them, and at first I thought he was joking. He was not! I had to take care of all of our spide occurrences.

I have some of them in my house that are annoying simply because they are so prolific (they're like small daddy longlegs and reproduce like crazy), but just this afternoon I admired a very cute little spide that was crawling on the wall up to the ceiling. This little guy (or gal) had big plans. Tiny spide! Before I knew it, it was dropping from the ceiling onto my desk! :rofl: It's still in here somewhere... :shrug:

When I was little, my mother used to insist that we grab them with a Kleenex and take them outside to let them go. And she loved to play with the little ones. The big ones were a drag and had to be caught in a jar.