# Sorry about that, spider... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 16, 2014, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-about-that-spider/679010 "2014-01-16T22:52:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2014, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-about-that-spider/679010/1 "2014-01-16T22:52:42Z")
… but you oughtn’t have hidden in my slipper. So I’m disrobing so I can take a shower, and I see something on my toenail. I reached down and picked it up, and it was a dead spider. The only place it could have come from was my left slipper. I catch spiders and take them outside; not kill them. Pity, it chose a poor place to hole up. Down the sink it went. ---
**Author:** ![gracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8e7dd6/32.png) [@gracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gracer)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-about-that-spider/679010/2 "2014-01-17T02:17:28Z")
[Mean](http://www.quickmeme.com/Misunderstood-Spider/). There, now you’ll feel bad. 😛 I love spiders, and usually just leave them, but one time a very big one decided to watch arachnophobia with me. Nope. Sorry spider. That just crossed a line. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-about-that-spider/679010/3 "2014-01-17T03:16:00Z")
I once rescued/relocated a spider, only to see it pounced on by another spider the moment I set it down. That was rather depressing. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-about-that-spider/679010/4 "2014-01-17T04:08:23Z")
I’m not fond of spiders but I leave them alone, as long as they remain in dark corners or on the walls & ceiling. But if a spider crawls across the floor or on my furniture, it dies. It has nothing to do with hating spiders, it’s specifically to discourage that particular evolutionary path – the fewer floor-crawling spiders survive, the more unlikely they are to reproduce and create more floor-crawling spiders. It genuinely works. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-about-that-spider/679010/5 "2014-01-17T05:22:01Z")
> [@buddha\_david](#): > > But if a spider crawls across the floor or on my furniture, it dies. What if it crawls across your bare foot? I was brushing my teeth one morning, and one of those big giant house spiders crawled across one of my feet. After I finished brushing my teeth, I caught it and took it outside. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2014, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sorry-about-that-spider/679010/6 "2014-01-17T06:35:05Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > What if it crawls across your bare foot? I was brushing my teeth one morning, and one of those big giant house spiders crawled across one of my feet. Actually, no spider in recent memory has ever crawled across my bare feet, thanks to my Arachnid Artificial Selection Program. 🆒 Crickets sometimes do, though. And crickets really squick me out, oddly enough. I hate the way they shudder and swirm in the paper towel before I crush the life out of them (they are also subject to the A.A.S.P., y’see – my apologies to all insect lovers, but it’s in the name of science.)