I'm freaked out by this spider loose in my room - Page 2

johnnyshaka · 10-02-2008, 10:15 AM

Izulde hasn't posted yet this morning...

Galaxy · 10-02-2008, 11:55 AM

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Originally Posted by johnnyshaka

Izulde hasn't posted yet this morning...

Oh no............

Schmidty · 10-02-2008, 12:01 PM

I love spiders. I used to have a tarantula named Oscar.

I try to never kill one if I can pick it up and put it outside, and if I can avoid breaking a web, I do. I actually found a Hobo Spider in the house and was able to escort it outside without it biting me (which would have been bad).

Now if we're talking about rodents, even hamsters, I scream like a little girl when I see one.

sterlingice · 10-02-2008, 12:02 PM

Is there a new man in tights swinging around from rooftop to rooftop in Izulde's town this morning?

SI

sterlingice · 10-02-2008, 12:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Schmidty

I try to never kill one if I can pick it up and put it outside, and if I can avoid breaking a web, I do.

I'm actually one of those, too

SI

Fidatelo · 10-02-2008, 01:03 PM

Spider's absolutely creep me out. I don't like any creature that I can't gauge it's 'feelings'. For instance, I know a cat is pissed off if it arches its back and hisses. I know a dog is mad if it bares it's teeth and growls. I know a spider is mad if... it bites me? No thanks.

Izulde · 10-02-2008, 01:14 PM

So I stayed up until 2 or 3 am to shorten the time between being bitten and hospital in case I did happen to be bitten during the night.

I also, after reading that black widows are not fans of light, left the light on, which kept my bed entirely illuminated.

Normally, this is no problem for me to sleep with full light on. It alters my dreams significantly and puts them in more bizarre cast, but still able to sleep just fine.

Not so last night.

I woke up every 10-15 minutes with the phantom feeling of the black widow being nearby. I'd search the bed to make sure she wasn't there, go back to sleep and wake up again 10-15 minutes later.

So needless to say, I'm sleep-deprived to the surreal/hallucinatory level today.

I called Housing this morning to let them know the situation and they said they'd send somebody over at some point today to either look for the spider or put something in the room that would kill it.

I haven't heard back on that and will be leaving for the apartment shortly. Just got out of my office hour.

Izulde · 10-02-2008, 01:15 PM

dola,

One of the professors mentioned today that they'd been bitten by black widows twice before and that they got really sick both times... like having the worst case of the flu imaginable.

It seems as though type and severity of reactions vary from person to person, but I'm not at all eager to find out where on the spectrum I'd fall.

GoldenEagle · 10-02-2008, 01:24 PM

Welcome to Arkansas. I have spiders all over my house and yard.I have those huge, giant webs in the trees that border my property.

Lathum · 10-02-2008, 01:30 PM

you seriously called housing to tell them there is a spider in your room?

path12 · 10-02-2008, 01:45 PM

I like spiders. I hate snakes.

gkb · 10-02-2008, 01:46 PM

I hate spiders. If I see one in my room I can't sleep until it's found and destroyed.

Dr. Sak · 10-02-2008, 01:47 PM

I'm scared of pigs.

gottimd · 10-02-2008, 01:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Lathum

you seriously called housing to tell them there is a spider in your room?

Did you take off your skirt before or after you called?

Izulde · 10-02-2008, 01:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Lathum

you seriously called housing to tell them there is a spider in your room?

It's a poisonous spider. Getting bit by it would be a bad thing even if it's not deadly. And even if it doesn't bite me, what about the next person who comes in and might not be aware of it?

It's the courteous thing to do.

If it was a harmless spider, then I obviously wouldn't call.

Sun Tzu · 10-02-2008, 02:36 PM

I hate you people.

Sun Tzu · 10-02-2008, 02:39 PM

Dola

I'm so glad I live in California. Looking up the main places you can find Black Widows/Brown Recluses, it sounds like they like to stick to the hot and humid southeast. All we have to deal with out here is the occasional rattlesnake when hiking (I've already had a VERY close call with one of these), and ESL's.

MacroGuru · 10-02-2008, 02:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Sun Tzu

Dola

I'm so glad I live in California. Looking up the main places you can find Black Widows/Brown Recluses, it sounds like they like to stick to the hot and humid southeast. All we have to deal with out here is the occasional rattlesnake when hiking (I've already had a VERY close call with one of these), and ESL's.

Utah had a ton of Black Widows...I am dealing with aggressive Hobo Spiders here in Buffalo. I had one lunge at me the other day....he died with a big splat crunchy sound. And i do consider myself the spider crusader. I hate them, I have a borderline arachnophobia tendency with them...

I have to build the courage up to kill them.....Watching the movie Arachnophobia wasn't good for me. Eight Legged Freaks gives me the heebies...

Rodents I can handle...spiders....I cant.

Bearcat729 · 10-02-2008, 02:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Sun Tzu

Dola

I'm so glad I live in California. Looking up the main places you can find Black Widows/Brown Recluses, it sounds like they like to stick to the hot and humid southeast. All we have to deal with out here is the occasional rattlesnake when hiking (I've already had a VERY close call with one of these), and ESL's.

My mother told me that when she and my father were in the Air Force in Northern California they had black widows all over the place.

Sun Tzu · 10-02-2008, 02:48 PM

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Originally Posted by MacroGuru

Utah had a ton of Black Widows...I am dealing with aggressive Hobo Spiders here in Buffalo.

I looked up what a hobo spider looks like, and it looks uncannily like the standard house spiders that I've been seeing since I was 5 years old. Very, very strange...and not in a good way. Oy, I need to leave this thread alone!

Sun Tzu · 10-02-2008, 02:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Bearcat729

My mother told me that when she and my father were in the Air Force in Northern California they had black widows all over the place.

I've seen "imposter" black widows around here before. They look almost exactly like the black widow, but the underneath doesn't have that red hourglass shape. Apparently they are completely harmless, but sure give you a good scare when you see it.

MJ4H · 10-02-2008, 03:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Dr. Sak

I'm scared of pigs.

Welcome to Arkansas?

Fidatelo · 10-02-2008, 03:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Sun Tzu

Dola

I'm so glad I live in California. Looking up the main places you can find Black Widows/Brown Recluses, it sounds like they like to stick to the hot and humid southeast. All we have to deal with out here is the occasional rattlesnake when hiking (I've already had a VERY close call with one of these), and ESL's.

This post cracked me up because I've always associated ESL with "English as a Second Language". So at first it seemed like you casually dropped some racist statement about having to watch out for rattlesnakes and foreigners.

That said, what does ESL mean in this context?

GoldenEagle · 10-02-2008, 03:32 PM

The other day I came upon a wasp eating some sort of spider on my trash can. I did not get a good enough look to see what the spider was, but it was still a pretty cool to see.

My neighbor claims he killed a tarantula in his yard. I have yet to see any of them.

Thomkal · 10-02-2008, 03:34 PM

Geez see what this thread has done, its made the spiders angry. Walk through a spiderweb this morning, have a daddy long legs type spider drop down into the sink next to me when I was in the bathroom just now.

Galaxy · 10-02-2008, 03:36 PM

The sequel to Snakes on a Plane, "Spiders in a Dorm Room".

MJ4H · 10-02-2008, 04:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Fidatelo

This post cracked me up because I've always associated ESL with "English as a Second Language". So at first it seemed like you casually dropped some racist statement about having to watch out for rattlesnakes and foreigners.

That said, what does ESL mean in this context?

I had the same reaction.

Rich1033 · 10-02-2008, 04:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Izulde

So I stayed up until 2 or 3 am to shorten the time between being bitten and hospital in case I did happen to be bitten during the night...

... It alters my dreams significantly and puts them in more bizarre cast, but still able to sleep just fine...

...So needless to say, I'm sleep-deprived to the surreal/hallucinatory level today...

...I called Housing this morning to let them know the situation...

Oh Jesus F'ing Christ. Man the F*** up.

MJ4H · 10-02-2008, 05:03 PM

I think you mean cowboy up?

Rich1033 · 10-02-2008, 05:11 PM

Nah, I would view 'cowboy up' as a step above 'man up'. He doesnt have to go that far.

Scoobz0202 · 10-02-2008, 05:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Rich1033

Oh Jesus F'ing Christ. Man the F*** up.

No shit. I get up every morning at around 6:30 and normally stay up till around 2:00 to 2:30, and if I would hallucinate because of that then I never would have had to take that LSD.... Damn it!

st.cronin · 10-02-2008, 05:14 PM

I routinely see scorpions around my house. I have seen tarantulas in my backyard.

gkb · 10-02-2008, 05:41 PM

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Originally Posted by st.cronin

I routinely see scorpions around my house. I have seen tarantulas in my backyard.

I would move. Seriously, this to me would be along the lines of finding out the tree outside my son's window had tried to eat him during a thunderstorm.

st.cronin · 10-02-2008, 05:59 PM

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Originally Posted by gkb

I would move. Seriously, this to me would be along the lines of finding out the tree outside my son's window had tried to eat him during a thunderstorm.

Tarantulas are actually very cool. The scorpions weirded me out a bit at first, but now when I'm outside with bare feet I just make sure to watch where I step.

Lathum · 10-02-2008, 06:25 PM

The Wiki spider bite page, I think you are in the clear

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider_bite

MJ4H · 10-02-2008, 06:30 PM

OK, look. Spiders I hate. I used to be so arachnaphobic that even a tiny spider would freak me out. There's actually a really weird reason for that (a kid's game called Beware the Spider that was similar to Operation--you tried to scoop little scorpions and bugs off of a metal "spider web" with a little metal-pronged scoop and if you touched the metal spider web it would launch this big hairy fake spider through the air at you. Holy CRAP that was an awful game and the reason I was freaked out by spiders since I was very young when I got this game as a gift).

I'm much better about spiders, now. Only the big ones creep me out. But scorpions man. All freakin bets are off. I will scream like a little GIRL if I ever see a scorpion near me. That crap is crazy.

samifan24 · 10-02-2008, 06:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Izulde

It's a medium sized black spider with a red stripe on its back.

How big is "medium sized?"

Galaxy · 10-02-2008, 07:51 PM

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Originally Posted by samifan24

How big is "medium sized?"

You really want to know?

lordscarlet · 10-02-2008, 09:38 PM

Doesn't a shoe take care of this problem rather quickly?

samifan24 · 10-02-2008, 09:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Galaxy

You really want to know?

I'd say I want to know in the "don't want to know but need to satisfy my curiosity" sort of way.

JeeberD · 10-02-2008, 10:08 PM

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Originally Posted by st.cronin

I routinely see scorpions around my house. I have seen tarantulas in my backyard.

When we lived in El Paso, we routinely found scorpions inside the house, and one time, when it was just my mom and myself at home, we caught a tarantula walking DOWN the living room wall...

Of course, our neighbors had a rattlesnake get into their home and kill their dog (and nearly get the wife...she thought it was a toy snake at first), so we got off easy.

Fidatelo · 10-03-2008, 08:42 AM

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Originally Posted by st.cronin

I routinely see scorpions around my house. I have seen tarantulas in my backyard.

On a trip with my parents when I was younger (I think in Florida, maybe California), we spotted a bunch of giant pine-cones by the road and stopped to collect some as souveneirs. Apparently I decided that I should bring one back for each kid in my class (I was about 8 I think) so we filled up 2 or 3 bags of these things and stuck them in the trunk of the rental car.

A few hours later we are cruising down the interstate when my brother looks down and sees a scorpion sitting on his leg. He yelled 'Scorpion!!' and flicked it off his leg, so now the thing is loose somewhere in the car. I started to panic and began wailing things like "AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHSCORPIONAAAAAAAHHHHHHPULLOVERPULLOVERGETITOUT!!!!!" while I literally jumped around in the back seat. The next 45 seconds are a blur of screaming and yelling as my dad tried to pull off the interstate while my mom tried to calm me down and my brother laughed hysterically. When the car finally stopped we all jumped out and my dad eventually got the thing out of the car.

Lathum · 10-03-2008, 08:45 AM

did you also remove the pinecones?

RainMaker · 10-05-2008, 06:15 AM

I'm glad I'm in Chicago. The only thing I deal with are those damn house centipedes. They are harmless but pretty gross and fast as hell.

RedKingGold · 10-05-2008, 06:29 AM

Seriously, are you gay?

Fidatelo · 10-05-2008, 10:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Lathum

did you also remove the pinecones?

No, we really liked those! Besides, how many scorpions could there be?

10-02-2008, 12:01 PM	#53
Schmidty Coordinator Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Early, TX	I love spiders. I used to have a tarantula named Oscar. I try to never kill one if I can pick it up and put it outside, and if I can avoid breaking a web, I do. I actually found a Hobo Spider in the house and was able to escort it outside without it biting me (which would have been bad). Now if we're talking about rodents, even hamsters, I scream like a little girl when I see one. __________________ Just beat the devil out of it!!! - Bob Ross

10-02-2008, 12:02 PM	#54
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10-02-2008, 01:03 PM	#56
Fidatelo Pro Starter Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Winnipeg, MB	Spider's absolutely creep me out. I don't like any creature that I can't gauge it's 'feelings'. For instance, I know a cat is pissed off if it arches its back and hisses. I know a dog is mad if it bares it's teeth and growls. I know a spider is mad if... it bites me? No thanks. __________________ "Breakfast? Breakfast schmekfast, look at the score for God's sake. It's only the second period and I'm winning 12-2. Breakfasts come and go, Rene, but Hartford, the Whale, they only beat Vancouver maybe once or twice in a lifetime."

10-02-2008, 01:14 PM	#57
Izulde Head Coach Join Date: Sep 2004	So I stayed up until 2 or 3 am to shorten the time between being bitten and hospital in case I did happen to be bitten during the night. I also, after reading that black widows are not fans of light, left the light on, which kept my bed entirely illuminated. Normally, this is no problem for me to sleep with full light on. It alters my dreams significantly and puts them in more bizarre cast, but still able to sleep just fine. Not so last night. I woke up every 10-15 minutes with the phantom feeling of the black widow being nearby. I'd search the bed to make sure she wasn't there, go back to sleep and wake up again 10-15 minutes later. So needless to say, I'm sleep-deprived to the surreal/hallucinatory level today. I called Housing this morning to let them know the situation and they said they'd send somebody over at some point today to either look for the spider or put something in the room that would kill it. I haven't heard back on that and will be leaving for the apartment shortly. Just got out of my office hour. __________________ 2006 Golden Scribe Nominee 2006 Golden Scribe Winner Best Non-Sport Dynasty: May Our Reign Be Green and Golden (CK Dynasty) Rookie Writer of the Year Dynasty of the Year: May Our Reign Be Green and Golden (CK Dynasty)

10-02-2008, 01:15 PM	#58
Izulde Head Coach Join Date: Sep 2004	dola, One of the professors mentioned today that they'd been bitten by black widows twice before and that they got really sick both times... like having the worst case of the flu imaginable. It seems as though type and severity of reactions vary from person to person, but I'm not at all eager to find out where on the spectrum I'd fall. __________________ 2006 Golden Scribe Nominee 2006 Golden Scribe Winner Best Non-Sport Dynasty: May Our Reign Be Green and Golden (CK Dynasty) Rookie Writer of the Year Dynasty of the Year: May Our Reign Be Green and Golden (CK Dynasty)

10-02-2008, 01:24 PM	#59
GoldenEagle Grizzled Veteran Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Little Rock, AR	Welcome to Arkansas. I have spiders all over my house and yard.I have those huge, giant webs in the trees that border my property. __________________ Xbox 360 Gamer Tag: GoldenEagle014

10-02-2008, 01:30 PM	#60
Lathum Favored Bitch #1 Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: homeless in NJ	you seriously called housing to tell them there is a spider in your room?

10-02-2008, 01:45 PM	#61
path12 Coordinator Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Seattle, WA	I like spiders. I hate snakes. __________________ We have always been at war with Eastasia.

10-02-2008, 01:46 PM	#62
gkb High School Varsity Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Colorado	I hate spiders. If I see one in my room I can't sleep until it's found and destroyed. __________________ BALLERZ YO, fo shizzle. - QuikSand

10-02-2008, 01:47 PM	#63
Dr. Sak Grizzled Veteran Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Stuck in Yinzerville, PA	I'm scared of pigs.

10-02-2008, 02:36 PM	#66
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10-02-2008, 02:39 PM	#67
Sun Tzu Pro Starter Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: In the thick of it.	Dola I'm so glad I live in California. Looking up the main places you can find Black Widows/Brown Recluses, it sounds like they like to stick to the hot and humid southeast. All we have to deal with out here is the occasional rattlesnake when hiking (I've already had a VERY close call with one of these), and ESL's. __________________ I'm still here. Don't touch my fucking bacon.

10-02-2008, 03:32 PM	#74
GoldenEagle Grizzled Veteran Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Little Rock, AR	The other day I came upon a wasp eating some sort of spider on my trash can. I did not get a good enough look to see what the spider was, but it was still a pretty cool to see. My neighbor claims he killed a tarantula in his yard. I have yet to see any of them. __________________ Xbox 360 Gamer Tag: GoldenEagle014

10-02-2008, 03:34 PM	#75
Thomkal Head Coach Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Surfside Beach,SC USA	Geez see what this thread has done, its made the spiders angry. Walk through a spiderweb this morning, have a daddy long legs type spider drop down into the sink next to me when I was in the bathroom just now.

10-02-2008, 03:36 PM	#76
Galaxy Coordinator Join Date: Apr 2005	The sequel to Snakes on a Plane, "Spiders in a Dorm Room".

10-02-2008, 05:03 PM	#79
MJ4H Coordinator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Hog Country	I think you mean cowboy up? __________________ My YouTube channel My Twitch channel My Sharona

10-02-2008, 05:11 PM	#80
Rich1033 High School Varsity Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Sylvania, Ohio	Nah, I would view 'cowboy up' as a step above 'man up'. He doesnt have to go that far.

10-02-2008, 05:14 PM	#82
st.cronin General Manager Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: New Mexico	I routinely see scorpions around my house. I have seen tarantulas in my backyard. __________________ co-commish: bb-bbcf.net knives out

10-02-2008, 06:25 PM	#85
Lathum Favored Bitch #1 Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: homeless in NJ	The Wiki spider bite page, I think you are in the clear http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider_bite Last edited by Lathum : 10-02-2008 at 06:37 PM.

10-02-2008, 06:30 PM	#86
MJ4H Coordinator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Hog Country	OK, look. Spiders I hate. I used to be so arachnaphobic that even a tiny spider would freak me out. There's actually a really weird reason for that (a kid's game called Beware the Spider that was similar to Operation--you tried to scoop little scorpions and bugs off of a metal "spider web" with a little metal-pronged scoop and if you touched the metal spider web it would launch this big hairy fake spider through the air at you. Holy CRAP that was an awful game and the reason I was freaked out by spiders since I was very young when I got this game as a gift). I'm much better about spiders, now. Only the big ones creep me out. But scorpions man. All freakin bets are off. I will scream like a little GIRL if I ever see a scorpion near me. That crap is crazy. __________________ My YouTube channel My Twitch channel My Sharona

10-02-2008, 09:38 PM	#89
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10-03-2008, 08:45 AM	#93
Lathum Favored Bitch #1 Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: homeless in NJ	did you also remove the pinecones?

10-05-2008, 06:15 AM	#94
RainMaker General Manager Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Chicago, IL	I'm glad I'm in Chicago. The only thing I deal with are those damn house centipedes. They are harmless but pretty gross and fast as hell.

10-05-2008, 06:29 AM	#95
RedKingGold College Starter Join Date: Oct 2002	Seriously, are you gay? Last edited by RedKingGold : 10-05-2008 at 06:29 AM. Reason: Not that there's anything wrong with that...

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