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I was walking into a dark room and I turned on the light, I turned around to close the door and noticed the giant 3” spider right above the light (I know everyo

I was walking into a dark room and I turned on the light, I turned around to close the door and noticed the giant 3” spider right above the light (I know everyone in Australia thinks it’s adorable I found an itty-bitty spider - but 3” is big in the US). I think it’s a brown recluse so I get someone to toss me a broom and I kill it. While cleaning that up I get a good look at the legs and realize there is green in addition to brown, so it was just a grass spider, not poisonous at all. But still I’m glad my hand missed it when I turned on the light, and I didn’t walk into its web late at night while going to the bathroom in the dark.

13of40 4y ago
I'm a little bit arachnophobic sometimes, and one of the most stomach turning moments I recall was going into the garage barefoot and having a spider the size of a small mouse run across the floor and bang into my foot. I've run into a few more specimens since then, usually ones that fall into the laundry sink and can't get back out, and I think they're some kind of wolf spider. Apparently they bite, but they're not venomous so you just get a nasty infection. [Shudders]