Auto-Arachnophobic Response....and the most disgusting situation...

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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So the summer is waning and this morning I decided to take the canoe and do a little fishing at a lake a few miles away. So I put the canoe in the Avalanche, hoped in and hit the road.

About a half mile down the road I notice a glitter coming from the back seat. I look closer in the rear view mirror and see a HUGE, MONSTROUS, GIGANTIC SPIDER WEB FULL ON STRETCHING THE LENGTH OF THE CAB, WITH A PALM SIZED* BROWN HAIRY SPIDER IN THE MIDDLE…:eek: :frowning: :eek:

I did the worse possible thing, I applied the brakes to pull over and get it out so could get on my way…However, I was going 50 mph and when I hit the brakes, a little too hard, The web moved forward…forward enough that it hit the back of my head and immediately dettached and pulled off it’s anchors and wrapped itself around my head.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

I swung the car to the side of the road onto the back and THE FUCKING SPIDER CRAWLED ACROSS MY CHEEK!!!

I swipped it off and proceeded to do - what must have looked like - the silliest ICK dance thing I have ever done. I swiped off and cleaned my face with lightning speed about a thousand times the entire time make the uuhhgg and ahhh sounds…

Rated number 1 as worse spider experience of my life in 33 and 3/4 years…I’m still getting the biggest heeby-jeebies even as I write this…

  • Ok so the spider was the size of a half dollar…big wup…still sucked.
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The middle sentence about swinging the car onto the back, should read…swung the car onto the shoulder of the road…

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OBJECTS IN MIRROR ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR

Nasty, nasty experience.

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I’m fairly sure I saw this same scene on the SciFi channel. Oh, wait, you weren’t devoured, were you?

Reflex is a rotten way to deal with insects. It bought me a yellow jacket sting yesterday.

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If you didn’t damage the vehicle, you did well. I almost crashed my car once because of an insect. I was driving along and was coming up on stopped traffic at a light, when I sensed the glare of a beady-eyed one. I glanced down, and there was a giant praying mantis sitting smugly on my chest. I nearly rear-ended the car in front of me.