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Originally posted by Nachtrafe:
LOL...Hey, what can I say...I'm a safety guy. 
You know...I had an experience something like that actually. Back in high school, I was spending the night at a buddy's house. He lived in a finished attic. In the peak of the roof was a big spiderweb. I'm rather arachnophobic(was bitten by multiple black widows when I was 5. Never really recovered psychologically :weaksmile: ) Anyway, I asked about it, but he assured me that the spider living there was non poisonous. So I resolved to ignore it. Skip ahead to the middle of the night. I was asleep on the floor, lying on my back. I wake up for some reason, and I see, about 6 inches above my face, a HUGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! wolf spider swinging down directly at me! Needless to say, I screamed my head off and swatted the thing off to the side. Jumped out of bed, still freaked, and almost killed myself trying to turn on the light, and grab a bat or a hockey stick at the same time. He jumps out of bed, sees what I'm doing and starts laughing hysterically. I finally managed to get the light on, and started looking for the spider. Finally cornered it, but he wouldn't let me kill it. I got dressed and went home. Just for the record...the spider was over 4 inches across from leg tip to leg tip. I know cuz it was sitting on a 3x5 notecard when John picked it up to return it to its web.
Man...just sitting here and thinking about it is giving me the willies.. *shudders*.
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LOL!! Sorry about that, Nachtrafe. I didn't know. Maybe I shouldn't have joked about it then. :S But I had something similar happen to me too, only the dirty bugger ran across my bare flesh under my SHEET when I was about 6! OOOhhh! Still gives me the creeps. I've just learned to tolerate spiders well (as long as they are at least 5 feet away and NOT coming my direction). Although, sometimes I get the urge to go look at one up close. Like the little 'jumping' spiders. They are actually neat little guys (for a spider). Also sorry to hear of your run-in with the black widows. Widows are the ONLY spiders that truly creep me out. I've had to get rid of a few blacks and even a red widow or two from my house. *shudder*
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