Guest guest Posted October 20, 2002 Report Share Posted October 20, 2002 OhMyGoodness!!! Were they dangerous, or did they just look like monsters? I don't know if I would appreciate that and I like spiders! That would definitely take some getting used to. Geesh :-o Kris --- genie bottle <geniesflower wrote: > > You think your little house spiders are bad? Try living in the tropics. > Nothing poisonous, but the spiders, including the legs, were the size of the > palm of my hand. The bodies alone were over 1 inch in diameter. I tried not > to kill them as they did eat the big roaches in the house. Big roaches means > bigger spiders. But, if they had an egg sack, out came the Raid. Especially > when the occasional one would make it inside the sanctuary of my mosquito net > covered bed... I may have been in my mid-20's back then, but every neighbor > within yelling distance was at my house the first time I found one of those > spiders in bed with me. The main good thing about the spiders was that they > didn't make webs across doorways. That is the part I hate most about little > spiders... I've never liked webs. The big ones in the Dominican Republic > didn't so I didn't mind them too much... > OK, so here's a funny spider story that I have to tell. I was at that time > only in country for a week or so, living in my host families house in Santo > Domingo. We'd been in training for a couple of days, not long enough for me > to know any Spanish. I needed to get to my vitamin pills in my duffle bag, > which were in a pocket on the side that was not zipped. I reached in to get > it and pulled out, not the pill bottle, but one of those giganitic spiders the > size of my hand. Being very new to the third world experience, I screamed > bloody murder. Every member of my family and a few neighbors came running > into my room to save the stupid American (yes, I was very stupid then)... I > was crying I was so scared. I didn't know the word for spider, so I looked it > up in my dictionary and yelled " sand! sand! " and everyone looked at me like I > was crazy. Not knowing what I had said, I gave the dictionary to my dona, who > fortunately could read, but only after hunting her glasses for 5 minutes. > Finally, she found the glasses, got the dictionary, and read the word I was > pointing to, " spider " . The Spanish word for spider is " arana " and the word > for sand is " arena " and not knowing Spanish at all, I had misprounced the word > for spider... My dona then got the local version of Raid, Baygon, and > sprayed my room, not that it did any good. > Later, I told my training class the storey, they were all laughing, but > terrified. All of learned the hard lesson of zipping closed anything that > could be! > Genie Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting./ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 20, 2002 Report Share Posted October 20, 2002 , genie bottle <geniesflower> wrote: > > You think your little house spiders are bad? Try living in the tropics. Nothing poisonous, but the spiders, including the legs, were the size of the palm of my hand. The bodies alone were over 1 inch in diameter. ..... I reached in to get it and pulled out, not the pill bottle, but one of those giganitic spiders the size of my hand. Being very new to the third world experience, I screamed bloody murder. > Genie ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ That is a funny story. I would have screamed, too. I know the type of spider you mean. I used to live in Hawaii and we had those huge cane spiders. One day in traffic the car infront of me had one crawling on it. This guy was sipping his coffee and tapping his hand outside the window to his music. I wanted to beep my horn to warn him as the thing got closer and closer, but I knew horn beeping was taboo and considered the height of rudeness. *lol* ~ P_T ~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 10, 2006 Report Share Posted October 10, 2006 My spouse is a major bug-hater and always does the catch-and-release. For his birthday last year, I bought him a spider catcher; it is a gentle vacuum with a cover and makes it quite easy to catch spiders and pil bugs (we have so many in our house) and let them go outside. Everyone is raving about the all-new Mail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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