quote:Originally posted by Olivet: 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.
I live in a place like that. Snakes (Goffer, Rattle, Cobra, Grass, King), hundreds of Spiders types, field Mice, Rats (no neck types, twitchy neck types, Kangaroo types), Possum demons from hell, other bugs, that sort of thing.
Just the normal So. California type of oddities. Spraying doesnt always help. I remeber on time i was in my bedroom and out of the corner of my eye i see this three inch Black spider emerge from this tiney dot opening in the corner of the wall.
Another time, more recently, I was reading on the corner of my bed and out of the vents a freckly sort of spider drops down onto my book Mission Impossible style.
At work is worse! I wont tell you all horror stories but once I saw a Orange and White thing about 2 1/3 inches long clinging to the other side of the window. Naturally i assume it's a Scorpian. So I grab the Fog style Black Flag kill all and foam it to death. As it writhes in pain on the floor i realize it aint no Scorpian, the baby was a neon orange spider.
Honestly Im more scared of the bugs we got out were i work then the Coyotes.
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I had a 4-5 inches across wolf spider in my underwear once in Coventry. Alas, I wasn't wearing them at the time; that would've made for a far better story. I was *about* to wear them though. I've always been glad it wasn't in, say, the big sweatshirt I was putting on instead. 5 inch spiders are relatively easy to spot in women's underwear. Sweatshirts hiding large spiders can more easily lead to disaster, by which I mean the increased likelihood of my falling down two flights of stairs while flailing trying to take off the sweatshirt and breaking not only my neck but those of the people inevitably coming up at the same time because that's how my luck goes.
But you know, I think squashing the big grasshopper inside my shoe with my bare foot that one time was worse.
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I would FREAK OUT! First of all- reading this whole thread has been making me shake, shiver, twitch the whole way through (I saw the movie arachnophobia too many times as a child- starting when I was like 4) Then I'd run to the nearest private place get my pants off as soon as possible and crush the thing until it was dead- until I could see its little ooze coming out of it- otherwise- *shake*
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I'd like to say I'd calmly shake the tarantula out, pick it up, and place it in the garden.
But bunbun would read it and tell you'd I'd do an amazing rendition of the Jump Around Removing All One's Clothing While Screaming Like a Little Girl dance.
According to the article I was reading in the September* 2005 Discover today, camel spiders don't even have any venom and are pretty much harmless to humans. They just have a really bad rep because they look scary.
There were some other spiders in that article that really freaked me out, though, like the hobo spider (main subject of the article) and its cousin the brown recluse.
I have now exhausted the majority of my spider-knowledge.
As for what I'd do if there were a tarantula in my pants . . . I'd freak out. But after reading that article, I'd freak out about most spiders (since the two dangerous ones I mentioned pretty much just look like normal spiders and I'd want to get rid of them before they bit me) anywhere near me. Except the camel spider, as it is pretty unique looking, and I could recognize it now. I would just look at it for a while before getting it to leave the apartment (because even if it's not dangerous, I don't want large spiders around my home freaking out any guests I may have).
*Not that this has anything to do with the topic, but it really bothers me that magazines are always dated way, way later than when they actually come out.
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quote:*Not that this has anything to do with the topic, but it really bothers me that magazines are always dated way, way later than when they actually come out.
I like it. It makes me feel like I am in the know before everyone else.
The best is Sports Illustrated, because they'll print the results of games that haven't been played yet. Spoils some of the suspense, but it's great for betting with the bookies.
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Tarantulas and snakes are my two biggest fears. I've had a bad, bad experience with a snake and tarantulas are just creepy. If I caught one in my pants? Probably reach in, grab it by a leg, throw it far, and run away with a stream of inappropriate words coming out of my mouth. If it were a snake wrapped around my leg, I can't even begin to imagine what I'd do.
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I once had a cockroach (one of those BIG southern Cali roaches) crawl up my pants. I was at someone's house in Santa Ana and tried to kick the roach out of the door instead of smashing it into their floor. However, it was quite agile and managed to scurry up my shoe and into my pants. I calmly (well, I was much calmer than my mission companion who shrieked and jumped around all crazy-like) went to the bathroom and removed my pants and then the roach scurried under the bathtub...lucky for him!
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I entered the foray a bit late here but I thought the right answer to the question should be:
Q: Hypothetically, if there were a tarantula in your pants...what would you do?
A: Introduce it to all the other amazing creatures down there and hope there is not some struggle for territory...
But seriously folks, I am WAY WAY freaked out by bugs, and I mean insects. If a spider crawls on me, I don't even flinch. I don't mind them. But if 2 or 3 teeny tiny ants crawl up my arm, I am shaking and flinching like a frightened school girl in pigtails...
Even gnats freak me out.
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quote:Originally posted by LordKaosnix: I live in a place like that. Snakes (Goffer, Rattle, Cobra, Grass, King), hundreds of Spiders types, field Mice, Rats (no neck types, twitchy neck types, Kangaroo types), Possum demons from hell, other bugs, that sort of thing.
Just the normal So. California type of oddities.
Where the heck in SoCal do you live?! Please tell me it's far away from me! Posts: 32919 | Registered: Mar 2003
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Being English, I missunderstood the question first time round.
But if there were a tarantula in my trousers on the other hand ... No I can't, just thinking about it gives me the shivers!
I did once call into my tent to find a scorpion and a snake on my sleeping bag (camping in the Ecuadorian jungle). We got rid of them but the guides wandering hands were even worse. I ended up sleeping on the stove. Not comfortable but at least safe!
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I am now wearing tighter (so a tarantula would have a hard time getting in at all), easy to remove (providing the ability to get them off faster in an emergency) pants because of this thread so now I am wearing those lovely, elastic waist grandma pants three sizes too small. You have ruined all my fashion sense with this spider thread. THANKS! Posts: 1319 | Registered: Jul 2005
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Where the heck in SoCal do you live?! Please tell me it's far away from me!
I live in small Californian town calld Wasco Were I work is in a even smaller and dryer town calld Lost Hills.
Eighteen Miles from Wasco, Lost Hills is were all the mutations live. Lost Hills also has a lot of refineries, oil fields, garbage dumps, and truckers.
Wasco, mostly just the normal stuff, is 48 miles from Bakersfield.
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