Originally Posted by
super_hunt54
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!
That doesn't work for me, my Mrs. is just as scared as I am! We usually argue over who has to go for the fly swatter!
Oddly enough, my Mother was deathly afraid of snakes so you would think I would have acquired that mindset. Neither she or my Dad were afraid of spiders and I saw my Mom swat a good many of em' dead with her bare hand if they got in the house. Otherwise she just left them alone.
A good friend of mine was bitten on the back by a Recluse (fiddleback) spider several months ago. A half dozen Dr. visits and a pile of $$$ on treatment and he's healing up pretty good now. I hate ALL arachnids!!
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