# So I'm just going to have to get over my arachnophobia, aren't I? :( **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 25, 2015, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-im-just-going-to-have-to-get-over-my-arachnophobia-arent-i/726179 "2015-07-25T20:04:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2015, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-im-just-going-to-have-to-get-over-my-arachnophobia-arent-i/726179/81 "2015-08-04T17:23:20Z")
> [@kambuckta](#): > > Interesting thread, but mainly because I’ve just realized that the house we moved into two months ago doesn’t appear to have any spiders! > > And I LIKE spiders. We had some dandy ones at the last house…especially a St Andrews Cross spider just next to the back door with her egg sacs and every month or so we’d see squillions of teeny weeny baby spidies in her web after they’d exited the sac. It was brilliant. > > But now at the new joint, it seems we’re spiderless. It’s funny because this is a very old house, timber, with lots of vegetation around and LOTS of nooks and crannies for the spiders to hang out in. > > Weird. Hear, hear. 🙂 I like spiders, too. (They scared me when I was a little kid; now I know better. ) Once I learned that these eight-legged critters eat flies and other pests, my attitude toward them improved. I once even watched a spider eat a fly! Eccch. As a gardener, I always asked my customers to leave their spiders be, because of their taste in hunting. One year, near Halloween, I zwas in line behind a man and his little daughter. She was looking at a display of spider-print decorations. I said, “Spiders are good guys.” She said, “I’m scared of them.” I answered, “They might be scared of you.” ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2015, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-im-just-going-to-have-to-get-over-my-arachnophobia-arent-i/726179/82 "2015-08-04T21:37:51Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > Hear, hear. 🙂 > I like spiders, too. (They scared me when I was a little kid; now I know better. ) > Once I learned that these eight-legged critters eat flies and other pests, my attitude toward them improved. I once even watched a spider eat a fly! Eccch. As a gardener, I always asked my customers to leave their spiders be, because of their taste in hunting. > One year, near Halloween, I zwas in line behind a man and his little daughter. She was looking at a display of spider-print decorations. > I said, “Spiders are good guys.” > She said, “I’m scared of them.” > I answered, “They might be scared of you.” Here’s [a ode](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-P2_z94aQS4U/UfGKdRZylfI/AAAAAAAAD7E/8CD0lmNy4CU/s1600/1004770_610149592337043_1475864700_n.jpg) just for you: ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2015, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-im-just-going-to-have-to-get-over-my-arachnophobia-arent-i/726179/83 "2015-08-05T16:39:01Z")
Thanks for “a ode.” If you look upthread you’ll note that I already watched a spider do that once. Better the gross sight of a spider dining on choice flies than flies swarming in your home, hmmmmmm? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2015, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-im-just-going-to-have-to-get-over-my-arachnophobia-arent-i/726179/84 "2015-08-05T17:59:40Z")
> [@Catamount](#): > > The bolded part happened to me in the shower once. I squealed, but then I realized it was Juletane, my bathroom spider. She had been hanging out in the corner above the showerhead, but that day she decided she was going to crawl over to the back of the shower and slide down her thread right in front of me. > > I let her live. She did good at killing the bugs I didn’t want. But I did yell at her. The bugs spiders eat are worse than the spiders. They are like eightlegged ratters. Or maybe Vincent Prices warning on Alice Coopers Black Widow was right after all. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2015, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-im-just-going-to-have-to-get-over-my-arachnophobia-arent-i/726179/85 "2015-08-05T20:03:22Z")
> [@Catamount](#): > > The bolded part happened to me in the shower once. I squealed, but then I realized it was Juletane, my bathroom spider. She had been hanging out in the corner above the showerhead, but that day she decided she was going to crawl over to the back of the shower and slide down her thread right in front of me. > > I let her live. She did good at killing the bugs I didn’t want. But I did yell at her. Awwwww…that’s not nice. If you’re close enough to give that spider a name you shouldn’t yell at her. Chide her a little. You don’t want her to bad mouth you to her fellow spiders. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2015, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-im-just-going-to-have-to-get-over-my-arachnophobia-arent-i/726179/86 "2015-08-05T21:51:34Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > Awwwww…that’s not nice. If you’re close enough to give that spider a name you shouldn’t yell at her. Chide her a little. You don’t want her to bad mouth you to her fellow spiders. She’s lucky I didn’t swat her. I don’t wear my glasses in the shower. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-im-just-going-to-have-to-get-over-my-arachnophobia-arent-i/726179.md?page=4)