OK so Spiders don't normally bother me, pick it up put it out side easy. Well this weekend was a bit different. I was in my garden Friday night I sat on the step out side the door and saw what I though was a mouse I though ahh as you do but no it was no mouse it was a massive spider! It stopped right in front of me (Frozen with fear I guess) well I was frozen too. Finally I ran back to the house locked the door. Few thats the end of that! Wrong. As I got ready to go out last night I saw it again this time in the house! I called Simon to grab a pint glass but when he got it to me i noticed it's legs were too pig to fit and I didn't want to hurt it. Then it ran!

So on returning home I wanted to watch a film but couldn't bring my self to sit on the sofa so got two dinning room chairs and sat on them. I was on edge the whole time.
This morning I just didn't care I thought right if I see him or her I'll just grab it.

Four hours later my brother tells me, he was laid on the sofa last night with his son, when he's son went white and stutted spider. Sure enough it was sat right next to my brothers head!
He killed it. 

Not only do I feel guilty for not catching it I feel worse because i knew if my brother found it he would kill it.   
My Nephew now thinks he's a hero though from saving his dad from the spider!

Turns out it was a wood spider. I've looked up some pictures they look like they could shave! LOL
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I'm terrified of spiders, even the ones those little tiny jumping spiders, they just freak me out!!
My sister used to have a kitten that ate spiders...The harmless ones, of course, though it was still useful. Normally, I just squash the little eight-legged buggers with a shoe or something. 

If I had encountered that inside, I would have plastered myself on the ceiling with a shriek.

I'm not fond of most bugs but spiders - I am a real arachnophobe.

If it's a small spider, it lives.

If it's large and looks like it's dangerous, I'm screaming and this is the time when I play "damsel in distress" and make the boyfriend kill it.

I don't think that any of us want to kill them, but in a situation where I don't know if it's dangerous or not (I'm talking big spiders -- small ones are okay and live to see another day, we generally don't even move them outside) I'd rather be safe than sorry.

Big spiders aren't any more harmful than small ones, though, most common spiders are about as dangerous as a honeybee.  Even the more medically significant bites can be counteracted with proper medical care.  I argued at length about this on another thread, I'm not gonna get all into it here, it just kills me when I see this kind of thing, on a board that's so ultra knowledgeable and tolerant about other animals.

*SHRIEK* Just a few minutes ago, I saw this freaky, GROSS brown spider on the keyboard, then it leaped onto my lap!! I made this weird sort of squeal sound, which killed my voice completely, I already have a raspy voice from my virus. Now it's crawling around the room somewhere, I don't know where it went.

We used to get huge spiders in Ohio....well what I thought were huge spiders, until I moved to Texas! The saying is true y'all, Everything IS bigger in Texas! I wasn't so worried about the spiders though (unless they were in the house) it was the cockroaches that freaked me out. And the bee's! I saw a lot of wasps (and I am deathly allergic) and they were (no kidding) the size of a 50 cent piece at the smallest! YUCK!

<snigger> British pints are bigger, though 

AFIneohilim, you really think I'm going to watch a youtube vid of something which may or may not be an evil, hideous trick to lure me into total freak-out-dom?  I'll send it to my mum to vet first. If she freaks out and never speaks to me again, I'll know it's too risky for me. 
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I wouldn't do that... it's not a video that would scare you... at all.

*shudders* I am so not watching that! Stupid irrational arachnaphobia  , i'm weird in that videos of spiders seem to freak me out more than seeing the real thing (so long as the real thing is outside!!!). Once when i was very young I saw an ad on TV for pest control that showed a redback spider (small, fairly deadly spider) crawling across a womans foot while she was on the loo. For years after that I could not use the toilet without holding my feet up in the air  . It scared me that much!

Another nasty childhood spider memory was back when we lived at our hold house, my younger brother and I were downstairs on the computer and we heard light footsteps walking towards us. We though, 'oh cool Sebastion (our cat at the time) is coming to see us!' I looked down... Sebastions asleep on my lap... We look into the hallway and this GIANT huntsman is slowly walking towards us 

As terrified as I am I still don't like killing them. I'd rather get someone to take them outside for me.

we have brown recluses in my apartment, they get killed on  site. I cannot risk letting them live in my home with the rats, last thing i need is for one of them to go "ohh yummy bug" and grab one. They only bite out of self defense(there venom is to precious to them), but a rat trying to eat you is major self defense time.  we have a "rabid wolf spider" that lives in my flower garden, one night when we came home he was sitting in front of our door lime a gaurd dog.  i don't mind spiders out side, i do have pretty sever arachnophobia, but i don't mess with them so long as they don't mess with me.

A huntsman is a brown hairy incredibly ugly spider that can grow pretty damn big. They're aggressive and have a nasty bite but fortunately they aren't poisonous.

I have a bagless vacuum with a see through chamber. I don't want to imagine having to see the spider everytime I wanted to clean the floor. Why are they so creepy!