I'm exactly the same way. My baritone voice immediately becomes a high tenor that would rival that of any Opera house "fat lady" on the planet when confronted with them 8 legged devils! I send the wife into a room to kill the spiders! Yet I've had pet Boas and Pythons before she and I got married (not now because my feelings on spiders are her feelings on snakes). It's kinda funny how a 6'5" 250+ "manly man" can be reduced to a quivering little "girly man" by such a small creature aint it!