So there I was, running around buck naked...

[Jamastiene]

I was in the shower Sunday night and I decided to go ahead and wash my hair. I had had a migraine headache for 5 days straight and I was still disoriented and dizzy. I leaned back to rinse my hair and got shampoo in my eyes. At that point I was just cussing and grabbing my eyes like I had been premanently blinded. It fucking hurt, I tell ya. Well, I finally got enough of the shampoo rinsed out of my eyes so they just felt extremely dry even under the water, but I could at least see again. So, I leaned back to finish rinsing my hair and then I saw it.


That spider was fucking HUGH!!1! I'm SERIES!!1!!!! I told him if he stayed up there, we'd both live, but if he fell down into the shower with me (my shower is one of those single size shower stall dealios), I could only promise him one thing, he'd die. About that time, he slipped and almost fell down into the shower with me. I ended up running around buck naked in the shower, screaming like Bush during a terrorist attack. It was something else, I tell ya. It was a sight to behold.

:P

[billyskank]

1. Ah, Jama

:hug:

[Jamastiene]

4. It's probably good that I can laugh about it now.

I finally ran that headache off, I think.

:hi: :hug:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

2. OMG! I think we're long-lost cousins or something!!!

I would have soooooo done that and then posted on DU about it.

[Jamastiene]

5. I had to share it.

At the time, it wasn't funny, but now, it's freaking hilarious. Yep, we could be cousins. What the heck, if we think that much alike, and we do, let's just make ourselves honorary cousins. :hug:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

7. Okay cousin.

:hug:

[Jamastiene]

15. Cousins, it is then.

:hug:

[Truebrit71sbruv]

3. I have to say...

... I am currently suitably medicated to be able to deal with such an image without permanent deep psychological damage following....

[Jamastiene]

9. Hehe,

sorry. :hug: Didn't mean to possibly damage you. Please laugh now so I can tell everything is all right. :hug:

[Truebrit71sbruv]

11. ~chuckles deeply~

[RevolutionaryActs]

6. I only laugh hysterically... because I would do the same thing.

:rofl:

[Jamastiene]

10. It's just an instant reaction.

I think he was a brown recluse, but I'm not sure. He sure didn't like all that steam I was sending his way and he REALLY didn't like my screams. :rofl:

[Bossy Monkey]

18. Brown recluses are pretty small, also reclusive, hence the name

The HUGH1!! ones are mostly orb weavers, I forget which kind. Also, they aren't found in the Carolinas except for the western tip of NC: http://www.uky.edu/Ag/Entomology/entfacts/struct/ef631.htm So worry not.:)

[Jamastiene]

21. Thank you.

I know the orb weaver females, but I haven't seen a good picture of the males to be able to identify them. It might be one of them. I have been watching the egg sacs of a female that nested on my deck earlier in the season. Think he's a male orb weaver and hitched a ride when I wasn't looking? He's not nearly as big as she was, but still pretty big when I don't have shoes on.

[NewWaveChick1981]

8. You sound like my sister...

...:rofl: When we were roommates just after I graduated from college, I heard her scream bloody murder at 2 AM one morning. I jumped up and ran to her room, thinking she was being attacked. Just before I got in there, I heard her turn on the vacuum cleaner. Now vacuuming an intruder is not a good way to get rid of one, so I was confused. When I got in there, she was furiously vacuuming in the corner of the room. I said, "What in the HELL is going on??? It's 2 AM!!!" She said, "Oh, my GOD! There's a hopping spider in my room!!!" I said, "There's no such thing as a hopping spider. What the FUCK are you talking about?" I looked in the corner, and there was a camel cricket. It sorta looks like a spider, but it's not. Camel crickets are totally harmless and just sort of hop around. I picked it up in my hand and put it outside. :P

[Jamastiene]

13. I salute you.

The spider is still in my shower. I ain't brave enough. No way. Beside, maybe he's eating something else in there that I really don't want to meet. I've seen those spider things your sister was so afraid of.

Another funny thing happened not long ago when one of those snapping bugs got inside the house. My cat, Yogi, pictured in the middle, was standing in the kitchen jumping flat-footed on all fours every few seconds. I wondered what he was doing so I went and looked. I'm not afraid of that certain bug, but every time it would hop, I would too. It was hilarious. I couldn't stop my reflexes. Every time that snapping beetle looking thing would jump, I'd jump straight up about 2 inches. I lost total control laughing at both me and Yogi. I ended up laying on the floor clutching my stomach from the stitch I got from laughing.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

16. At least you checked on her, which is more than my family does.

This past summer, I saw a huge spider drop down onto the windowsill next to me. This was up at our cabin in CT. Anyway, my parents had just gone to bed. Even though they weren't asleep, I figured I wouldn't bother them. So I screamed, ran to get one of my stepdad's sneakers, and proceeded to pound the fuck out of the spider while continuing to yell. It was obviously just as loud in their bedroom as it was in the living room, since the bed was about 7' away and uninsulated walls with a sheet door covering doesn't exactly insulate any sound.

When I was satisfied the thing was dead, I go, "you guys should be very proud of me, because I just killed a really big spider all by myself." My mom says back, "oh we thought you were trying to fix the Nintendo."

[Jamastiene]

20. My chest is wet and I'm not showering right now.

:spray:

:rofl:
We really are cousins.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

22. I think the best is my mom's comment.

I mean, how the hell could screaming, running, and beating on the wall with a shoe while yelling something to the effect of "AHHH!!!! DIE!!!!" possibly be miscontrued as fixing the tempermental old school Nintendo we have up there.

[Jamastiene]

23. I don't know. I used to take things apart to fix them so much

as a kid, that I would do some of that every once in a while because it was always the plastic parts that wore out and broke preventing me from performing one more fix. If it was me, they'd assume something else wore out. I used to scream and cuss the whole time I tried to learn BASIC programming on my old Atari 800XL years ago. :rofl:

[hunter]

12. The spiders in my house are sort of like pets.

So long as they don't start looking at me like I'm food, I tend to let them be.

I always feel sort of bad if they fall into the shower and go down the drain.

[Jamastiene]

14. I didn't end up killing him, just scaring him with my

blood curdling screams. I'm sure he's still around somewhere, although he has since moved from the shower since Sunday. :P

[Arugula Latte]

17. Oh, Jeebus!

What is it with these fucking HUGH spiders lately? Gawd, they creep me out ... :scared:

[Jamastiene]

19. The only spiders I have been able to get over

my creeped-outness with are the garden (writing) spiders. I still can't bring myself to try to touch one, but I did videotape one recently. Most spiders damn near make me piss myself.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

24. I got chased by daddy long legged spiders all weekend.

I feel your pain.
One more thing: You were running around the shower. Are you so skinny that you have to run around to get wet? :evilgrin:
Duckie

[Jamastiene]

25. Thank you.

Actually, I've gained some weight in the last year due to my antidepressant's side effects, but it sure feels good to hear someone ask that. :evilgrin:

I was running because I thought ol' spidey was going to fall on me. I FREAKED when I thought he was going to land on me. I had no shoes on. I thought for sure I'd have to touch him to get him off of me or stomp the poor thing to death. Most people would say he was more afraid, but I'd compare out heartbeats at that moment and wager a bet they matched or mine was faster. Spiders do have hearts don't they? :think: