Arachnophobia

My wife always says, "You are never more than 3ft away from a spider, no matter where you are." Not a comforting thought for an Arachnaphobic person. I am not that put off by spiders anymore. As a teen, I would squirrel hunt the Eastern woods and you cannot go more than three or four steps without having a spider web hit you in the face early in the mornings on the wooded trails near my home. After a while, you just get used to having them crawling on your face and arms. Most spider bites are no worse than a mosquito bite but do learn which ones to avoid.

The thatch roofs on the cabins at my PH's main lodge had to be filled with spiders but I still slept well.
 
As a child, I was terrified of spiders. Then, my father told me “Son, never be afraid of something you can kill”. After I started killing them by stomping on them or hitting them with things, the fear soon vanished by the time I turned 12.
 
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Not afraid of them, hate them all equally!
This one was living in a pipe in my dogs kennels-
 
When I was working in southern Utah we would have black widow/scorpion fights.

The scorpion always won, it would hold the black widow off with it's pinches and then sting it.

So even scorpions didn't like spiders.
 

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