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Those scary/icky but generally harmless moments

Happy2

Happy2

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Last night it was nice and warm up here So went out to sit on the slider and enjoy the night
I went down the steps and walked face first into a spider web 30 seconds of face slapping and chest trying to get it off After the 30 seconds was over the heart rate near normalised

What's your moment been ?

P.S. on going inside I looked down the spider was still there But with lights on there nowhere near as scary
 
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happy2 said:
Last night it was nice and warm up here So went out to sit on the slider and enjoy the night
I went down the steps and walked face first into a spider web 30 seconds of face slapping and chest trying to get it off After the 30 seconds was over the heart rate near normalised

What's your moment been ?

P.S. on going inside I looked down the spider was still there But with lights on there nowhere near as scary
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I noticed there was no " I would have had kittens, coronary's and probably ran yelling and screaming for assistance" button so I just replied
 
My scary/icky moment also involved a spider - I'm not sure Id classify any of those eight legged monsters as harmless!! I have had several close life calls with the a fore mentioned terrorists, but this one always stuck in my mind.
After a week on fathers farm I was driving back to Perth. It was a hot evening and having a SLK convertible back then frequently drove with the roof off. I was a show off lol!! I was roaring down the highway, music up full bore feeling probably slightly smug when I noticed a very very large thing crawling up my windscreen - I couldn't miss it as it was the size of my hand ( one of the other delights of Country Life hey HP!) . As I was travelling at a very fast rate of knots my immediate concern was weighing up the likelihood of it being blown into my lap or hair or me stopping and it getting into the car either before I abandoned ship or on to me. I was in full panic. I did a practical thing I hit the wipers - ahh it came to the side of the window where the pillar was!! I pressed the washers and that seemed to encourage it down slightly, which allowed me to then re wipe it to the middle of the window. ( I couldn't put the roof up - you had to be stationary to do it damn safety features!!)
I spent the next hour in abject horror watching this creature from the black lagoon slowly worming up my windscreen, hence I would knock the sod down again.
When I reached the first town I pulled into the first road house and cornered a bemused truck driver .His instructions were clear - remove it, show me a body before I will get back in said convertible!
It was the most horrific drive of my life!
I learnt three things - never ever leave the farm with the roof off, never ever park my car near the trees with roof off and that man eating spiders to live in WA!!
 
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Sounds like a huntsman spider
They love living in the sunvisor So when you flip it it down When driving into the sun Said spider lands on lap
This dance isn't the same as the Garrett dance Closer to the Shit I have dropped my cigarette into my lap dance

Hey I HAVE had a lap dance after all
 
Amanda.. said:
He's a new style of tRuck driver that one gets only in country areas - they are way more macho than city drivers - so the R in their title is 'silent' as no one can pronounce it with the X rated version belonging to them - try saying tXuck drivers!!
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RRRR funny hmm !!
 
happy2 said:
Sounds like a huntsman spider
They love living in the sunvisor So when you flip it it down When driving into the sun Said spider lands on lap
This dance isn't the same as the Garrett dance Closer to the Shit I have dropped my cigarette into my lap dance

Hey I HAVE had a lap dance after all
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This was the biggest spider other than a bird eating spider I spied on my horse property I have ever seen!! Really was as big as my hand and ferocious! He kept staring at me and waving his hairy legs - makes my skin crawl just thinking about it!
Oh and Ugg to them dropping out from under visors - my dad bless him - now does a precursory check of my vehicles before I leave, once it has the all clear I drive off lol
 
My wife was a townie Her 1st year on the property in 83 was a mouse plague I still remember dad asking her to lift up a sheet of corrugated tin for him Hundreds and hundreds of mice came seething out from under

I still remember the foul mouthed tirade she hit him with and the numerous slaps she gave out And of course the old man's laughter
 
Nah, you are a bunch of wusses:p

The Huntsman is slightly venomous but very timid and you would have to really work at it to get one to bite you. Best way of evicting them is to plonk a glass jar over the spider then lift it enough tease a piece of thin cardboard under the jar. Flip it over then take incy wincy outside and let him go. Before you do it, though, take a good, close look. They are an amazing predator and do a good job of keeping pest insects under control.
 
svengali said:
Nah, you are a bunch of wusses:p

The Huntsman is slightly venomous but very timid and you would have to really work at it to get one to bite you. Best way of evicting them is to plonk a glass jar over the spider then lift it enough tease a piece of thin cardboard under the jar. Flip it over then take incy wincy outside and let him go. Before you do it, though, take a good, close look. They are an amazing predator and do a good job of keeping pest insects under control.
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Agree but there's something about them falling on you Scorpions and especially centipedes they get me
I was bitten by a centipede once never again Always check your boots before putting them on
 
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svengali said:
Nah, you are a bunch of wusses:p

The Huntsman is slightly venomous but very timid and you would have to really work at it to get one to bite you. Best way of evicting them is to plonk a glass jar over the spider then lift it enough tease a piece of thin cardboard under the jar. Flip it over then take incy wincy outside and let him go. Before you do it, though, take a good, close look. They are an amazing predator and do a good job of keeping pest insects under control.
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Yes I is a wuss - I loath and is scared of any 8 legged creature no matter its size or lack there of! I would not get close enough to any spider to place a glass over it!! I wont even vac em up in case they crawl up the pipe and get me or attack when I open the lid to empty!! I find hairspray marvelous if you don't have venomous creature spray lol
 
Where I go running regularly in the local forest, there are Orb spiders that make huge webs across the tracks and unless you're specifically looking for them, you're liable to run face first into one. This is a pic of one i took last summer after I'd run through it's cousins web and reacted similarly to you H2....

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