Gigantic Floridian arachnids, and morning drama.

[Ethan Van Sciver]

So I'm sittin' heah, doin' nuttin, and Sharis is walking Hunter downstairs to take him to school. All was well until I heard the door open, and Sharis let out and ear piercing shriek. It sounded like Michael Jackson when he grabbed his junk and broke that car windshield with a crowbar. "OH MY GOD ETHAN COME QUICK!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Sharis doesn't yell like that normally, thank god, so I figured the mob had left a dead body on our doorstep.

"GET A SHOE, HURRY, DAMN YOU!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

So I heave myself down the stairs, and she's crunched up against the wall. A very large Wolf Spider let itself in when she opened the door, and now it was trying to make itself very small and unnoticeable in the corner.

"What, it's a spider! Big deal!" "AAAAAAAAAAAA! KILL IT!!!!!!"

So I kicked it, sort of, it get it away from the corner so I could more easily squash it, and when I did, it literally gave birth to a thousand tiny baby spiders. These spread out from her in all directions and looked a little like the Death Star explosion in the first Star Wars movie. Now Sharis is ballistic. She reacted the way I might react if a zombie hand grabbed me around the ankle as I walked though a cemetery at night. They were only baby spiders...a few thousand at most.

Anyhow, I murdered them all humanely with wasp poison, and they kind of melted into a brown streak on the linoleum. But damn if that wasn't a big mother of a spider. Florida has the best scary animals ever.

[ClintP]

You sir and this story will be giving me nightmares for a long time. I hate spiders with a passion. I think I would actually pass out if I had to witness a spider-birth like that. Isn't it odd that Spiderman is my favorite comic character?

[Sully7625]

I guess I am lucky that I only have to deal with black widows at my house. I have not witnessed any spiders giving birth yet.

[Thomas Mauer]

This sounds like something out of The Exterminators. :)

[GelfXIII]

Here in Northern Virginia we dont have too many scary spiders... just scary politicans.



... and we aren't even allowed to hit them with a shoe. :(

[JABSEN]

I guess I am lucky that I only have to deal with black widows at my house. I have not witnessed any spiders giving birth yet.Arent Black Widows really venomous?:scared:

[Sully7625]

Arent Black Widows really venomous?:scared:

Yeppers!!!

[Sharis the Bunny]

First of all, I didn't scream like the Mob had left a body on our doorstep. Whenever they used to do that, I'd always go "Oh, cool!" and grab my dissection kit. Of course, after the 40th or 50th, it was more of an annoyance than anything else. Like finding your home constantly tee-peed. You know, only with a dead body.

Anyhow, *I* am the one who sprayed the darn things, and it is now about 4 hours later and I'm STILL shaking! Those things are beyond gross! I've dissected sheep eyeballs, cats, human hands, and sat in on countless surgeries, but THIS? This was by far the most disgusting display of horror I have ever witnessed. I wish we would have videotaped it, I'd show it at our Halloween party next month and make everyone wet themselves.

Now excuse me, I just threw up in my mouth a little.

[kylethoreau]

guess ya didn't see the little white sac on it huh? I know what this is like.... hell I used to live in a garage that I think housed 2 3rd the population of Wolf Spiders in Palm Bay FL.... I got bit so much by them I actually stopped swelling up after awhile.

[Thomas Mauer]

First of all, I didn't scream like the Mob had left a body on our doorstep. Whenever they used to do that, I'd always go "Oh, cool!" and grab my dissection kit. Of course, after the 40th or 50th, it was more of an annoyance than anything else. Like finding your home constantly tee-peed. You know, only with a dead body.

Anyhow, *I* am the one who sprayed the darn things, and it is now about 4 hours later and I'm STILL shaking! Those things are beyond gross! I've dissected sheep eyeballs, cats, human hands, and sat in on countless surgeries, but THIS? This was by far the most disgusting display of horror I have ever witnessed. I wish we would have videotaped it, I'd show it at our Halloween party next month and make everyone wet themselves.

Now excuse me, I just threw up in my mouth a little.
Just wait till you see the open wounds of a maggot ridden living person in the ER. :shock:

[Sharis the Bunny]

Just wait till you see the open wounds of a maggot ridden living person in the ER. :shock:

Seen it. Not nearly as impressive as a million baby spiders crawling all over the floor in every direction. *shudder*

[RobertTN]

God, I HATE those wolf spiders! The little bastards have a bad attitude; I can imagine the chaos that kind of episode would have thrown my houshold in...it wouldn't a been pretty....

[kylethoreau]

I kept hearing that they can jump like four feet in the air...never saw it myself..but dammit if it made me slightly nervous trying to stomp them.

[The Marvel Girl]

Oh man. I would have died on the spot. I mean, GAH! Ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew ew!

[Brad N.]

Ick. My big bad tough guy act is quickly destroyed the minute I see a big nasty ass spider like that. I feel for you guys.

[joshdahl]

Florida is a very beautiful place.
God made ir beautiful because he wanted it.
HE WANTED IT!
All the spiders, and snakes, and alligators, and swamps, and hurricanes, are God' way of saying GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE!

Josh Dahl

[dEnny!]

I've had the experience of stepping on a spider and all the little baby spiders came out. Fortunately it wasn't at my house, it was on the sidewalk, but I was sooooo not prepared for the hatching of baby spiders by stepping on one. *puke

[St.-]

eeew.

[Dennis K]

Just wait till you see the open wounds of a maggot ridden living person in the ER. :shock:


That reminds me, it's lunch time.

[changingshades]

You tell the sexiest stories Ethan