Is that real life?

Last year I walked right into a huge sticky web while carrying a semi-feral kitten... I don’t know who was more terrified

I walk though my grandfather’s barn like I’m in the Paris Opera house...

I live in Iowa, which has been called the Spider capitol of the world. I don’t mind them, but, here’s a hint I’ve found helpful..they hate Peppermint oil. You have to use pure Peppermint oil, extract, but, they run from it. I spray it by my grandkid’s bed and in her closet areas. I put it on cotton balls and stick…

As a kid I would climb a maple tree in my great aunt’s front yard. We lived in the country and she watched me during the day while my parents were at work. Naturally living in the country, you learn about things you should avoid-copperhead snakes, skunks, black widow spiders, etc. So, I’m out there one day and felt…

We have a web that keeps recurring in the the same corner of our dashboard. (I’m pretty sure there is a spider living in the vent under it.)

It’s just the dog in the costume running around, cut like it’s a horror movie. It’s very cute actually.

Oddly enough, I get you. I once saw a film doc. on Woolf Spiders. Magnificent and seemingly harmless. Their “mating” rituals are a nearly ‘unreal’ piece of balletic, ethereal, and passionate joy.

This fella and his entire family live in our bathroom. They visit at least three times a week even when we escort them outside. I've stopped showering. It's not pretty.

Yeah no, no comparison, but I still can’t handle the idea of spider eggsacs hatching. Spiders themselves (as opposed to floods of thousands of microspiders) don’t scare me too much, though I wouldn’t want to touch one. A spider on my clothes doesn’t freak me out if it’s standing still, but once one made a beeline…

When I was a little kid I once found what I thought was a cotton ball stuck in a hole in a post. I poked it with a stick because that’s what kids do. Then thousands of baby spiders spilled out. there were so many it was like a liquid. Thank you for retriggering that repressed memory so I can have nightmares about it…

This has nothing to do with the story other than its my own spider story. When I was about 15 or so I woke up one morning with something sticky on me. Knowing that I didn't have a wet dream I looked around to see what was going on. As I opened my eyes I saw web. EVERYWHERE. And on those webs, little baby spiders.…

I had that nightmare too. I have it still sometimes except in my current nightmares I've forgotten how rather than not knowing.

oooooh yeah. i honestly didnt get my drivers license until I was 19 because of that stupid dream. that and the other big nightmare i still get is teeth falling out, do you get that one too?

Little Miss Angela
Sat in her Hyundai Sonata
Eating her curds & whey
Along came a spider
Who sat down beside her
And revealed her nine-year-old as the actual adult in the room

Halloween costume for the family dog.

On her shoulder or the shoulder of the road?