I mean, I would freak right the heck out, personally. I'd get it off me as soon as possible, then probably try to catch it, but the freaking out would be totally concurrent with these activities.
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The very least, I would be pantless. Not just for a tarantula; any kind of spider would do. Personally those huge wolf spiders creep me out waaaaaay more than a tarantula would.
What kind of question is this anyway???
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Politely excuse myself, remove my pants, shake out the tarantula, entrap it in a box, don my pants, and rejoin the group, having a show-and-tell with my new pet tarantula, Levi.
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Which part? In the pocket? Up from the leg? Someone dropped down down my front?
1. Pocket: Pants off, me jumping up and down on them, and then throwing them away.
2. Up from the leg: lots of dancing around, possibly shouting, probably running into a lake. There should be a lake. There's a tarantula in my pants - I had better be outside enjoying myself.
3. Someone dropped it down the front: lots of screaming, blood, and plots of revenge would ensue. None of them mine.
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Would the massive case of the willies I would get from tarantula guts smashed into my underclothing be any worse than the massive case of the willies I would have from having a giant spider in my pants?
I don't think I would want to touch it with my hands to get it off either (You know, unless I was mopping up it's ichor.)
I'm with Mandy though.. What kind of question is this??? (and why am I answering it?)
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I wouldn't be able to kill it...the feeling of 'squish and crunch' would be too much for me I think.
I also wouldn't be able to rip off my pants in public. I'd find a movie poster or something to hide behind (because of course this happened in a very realistic 3D version of a spider movie.)
I was chatting with mackillian, and she told me of a conversation she had with another Hatracker, who had been surprised by a tarantula crawling up inside her pants while she was on the computer.
Evidently this was a spider of significant size. She was not sanguine about it, but her fella shrugged it off with "It's just a spider."
This became a discussion topic, with some of our buddies asserting that they wouldn't freakout, while others claimed to be ready to die on the spot.
So I thought I'd see how the Hatrack population at large would handle such an event.
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Drop Trough Unfold my knife Slide blade slowly down my leg Blunt on skin Edge slightly away Get under the Spider before he notices Flick it away Raise Trough swiftly Stomp the life out of spider
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I'd be worried about killing the spider... I always wanted a tarantula
BUGS on the other hand - everything below the waist is GONE and I'm a screaming streak headed to the bathroom to check my butt crack in the mirror. How do I know? It's happened. In about ten seconds flat. My best friend's daughter still laughs when she talks about my "Happy Dance"...
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I think I'd be doing that dance (the Tarentella) to get the spider out of my pants. And I'd totally be freaking out.
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Probably about 20 seconds of blind panic which would include knocking off the tarantula, removing the pants and throwing them, and running, along with expletives.
Then I wouldn’t be able to go anywhere near the spot I was standing.
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Ah! I don't want to think about that! The spider in the pants is slightly more tolerable than snakes up a toilet! Ah!
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I wouldn't "do" anything, having just dropped dead from the heart attack which occurred upon realizing there was a tarantula in my pants.
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quote:who had been surprised by a tarantula crawling up inside her pants while she was on the computer.
I would never have thought to worry about such a thing... until now. Luckily, there aren't many (any?) tarantulas just walking about around here. At least I hope there aren't.
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I still stand by my reasoning that if there was a tarantula in my pants and it crawled out on it's own, I would catch it and sell it on EBAY.
However, if it was still in my pants at the time I noticed it there, I would see if I could reach into my pants to grab the thing. If not, I would immediately take my pants off and capture it, and sell it on EBAY for even more.
I mean... if you saw a object that said "THIS SPIDER WAS IN MY PANTS!!!" with a very articulate story behind it, you'd bid on it. I could probably make a good 30 bucks off that. Probably 50 if I threatened to kill it.
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quote:Originally posted by T_Smith: I mean... if you saw a object that said "THIS SPIDER WAS IN MY PANTS!!!" with a very articulate story behind it, you'd bid on it. I could probably make a good 30 bucks off that. Probably 50 if I threatened to kill it.
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lol, 30 seconds of stunned panic then wild screaming, I had a similar experiance with a giant bumblebee buzzing straigh for my eyes, I was sitting down so I leaned my chair backwards and fell over.
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To clarify, I think they are fairly common where the girl lives, if I have the story straight. She felt something tickling, shook her pant leg, and a tarantula fell out.
If that happened to me, I'd freak right the heck out, for at least a minute. THEN I'd catch it and show it to the boys. Or maybe scare the bejebus out of my husband, the arachnophobe.
If this happened to him, he would spray the whole house before he went to bed, even if it took floodlights on at 3am.
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I would start crying, wet my pants, and pass out, because when it comes to spiders, I am a huge wuss. The bigger the spider, the bigger the wuss. When I wake up, I would hope that it wasn't digesting my, uh, parts.
And the little hairs that it shoots would just add insult to injury.
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I've had spiders crawl on me before. If I knew it was a poisonous variety, I might wait it out, until it left my pants. Non-poisonous, then it's dead. On the spot.
Shower...
Then chemical warfare.
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I would certainly become hysterical. I become hysterical when I SEE spiders. I have run into brick walls before when I even think I have one on me, just trying to get away from it. I have a completely irrational fear of them. I hate, hate, hate spiders.
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I just don't wear pants. Solves most of my problems. Still can't get a date to homecoming for some reason though.
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When we were both teens my brother chased me around the house with crawfish heads on his fingers.
He and my stepdad had been eating them (my mother and I were too civilized to eat such nastiness) and when he finished he put crawfish heads on all ten fingers and chased me.
I did not like it, not at all.
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A friend of mine from Georgia had never had lobster other than the easy man's way (already out of the shell, etc). So, unsuspecting, she ordered lobster while visiting me up here.
Out came the lobster nicely done up on a plate at the restaurant, still fully intact and pleasantly red.
My friend=
However, she was brave and attempting eating the lobster, all while feel sorry for the poor creature, bless its heart.
Me, being the friend I am, pointed out that his eyes were still looking at her. Then another friend with us picked UP the lobster and made it dance.
That was the end of my friend eating the lobster.
I don't think she's forgiven us for that.
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Talk about topical...my girlfriend's cousin got back from a camping trip yesterday, and as he was taking off his pants, he noticed a tarantula in them.
As it was related to me, he screamed and ran out of the room. His mom and sister didn't believe him, so they went in, saw the thing, screamed and ran out of the room. Finally his dad went in and caught it in a mason jar.
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