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[The Infamous Scamola]

No phobias in particular, but I can tell you about a nasty, slightly embarrasing incident in my own house which made me run out of my own room.

Right, imagine the following: It's spring. Flies have not yet emerged, no bugs whatsoever. I'm going to bed, late night, probably 1 or 2 am. I lay down, but all I can hear is the frantic buzzing of two big black flies. So, armed with a copy of The Phantom I rise to annihilate the two petty excuses for creatures. *Swat* one down, proceeds to the next....

Then BAM!

All of a sudden 200 freakin' relatives of the suckers escapes from behind the wall and ceiling. I shrieked and ran out like a bat out of hell, and slept in my brother's room that night. The next morning I was armed and dangerous with the daily newspaper set to destroy the pests. Sadly, they were already laying dead on my floor, carpet, window and bed. *Shudder*

Jesus Christ! Where do you live, the Congo?

I once stepped on a huge spider.

Apparently it wasn't huge.
It was pregnant.

It exploded tiny spiders.
What the fuck, guys.

Tiny spiders are the worst, at least you can see big spiders and know where they are, but with the small ones I'm always worried they'll start crawling on me.

Do spiders really get pregnant? Don't they lay like eggs or something?

 

[InProgress]

I'm not afraid of bugs, but I don't like cleaning up after I squished them.

The worst thing that happened to me was the following:

In my room, I have a wall which is part of the exterior of the builduing. It is poorly insulated, so for more heat, my mother used big block of foam taken from some shop to insulate it. It's white and not painted over, so you can hear everything that touches it. One night when my brother was away on a trip (he is VERY afraid of insects in the house), I go to bed. At around 2 A.M. i hear little squeaks of something brushing on the foam (my head is right next to the insulated wall). I wake up and see a 2 inch cockroach at 30 cm from my head. I went straight to my mother's room and asked her to take it away. The same thing happened a few days after that, when my bro was back home. I had to lie about me being a chicken so not to freak him out enough to never sleep in his bed again (bunk neds).

P.S: Sorry about the wall of text.

 

[Nmil-ek]

But a spider story, not of fear though I was almost a little girl after the fact. Sitting on the floor reading, feel something on my ankle which is drawn up under me (I'm sitting on my legs coz it's cold and I don't own a couch at this point) when I feel something on my ankle. Reach down and crush whatever it is with my fingers, then take a closer look at the goddamned red back spider that had just ran across my foot. I freaked and wouldn't sit on the floor for the rest of the day.

You know, I think I would have a heart attack if I ever visited Australia, you guys are full of those disgusting things.

Australias not even the tip of the iceberg.

Spoiler

[http://img27.imageshack.us/my.php?image=iraqispider.jpg]

 

[SmilingKitsune]

I'm arachnephobic too, but recently I haven't been that effected by them, one was living in my room for about four days.

 

[Daveman]

I then proceded to jump in the air and run away screaming like a little girl.

Ha, your tough guy avatar could not be less applicable to you.

 

[The Infamous Scamola]

Australias not even the tip of the iceberg.

FUUUUUUUUCK!!!

I'm begging you, either take down the pic or put spoilers on it. Please, I'm shaking.

 

[sky14kemea]

bee's and wasps...

im one of the toughest of my friends XD im usually the one who gets rid of the spiders for them, but whenever a bee or wasp comes buzzing along, i run away screaming like a tiny little girl
for shame

 

[lava_lamp]

Wasps for me, i don't hate them or anything I just freak out a bit.

this

ill kill them

but i always leave the room for a couple minutes before so

 

[The Infamous Scamola]

I then proceded to jump in the air and run away screaming like a little girl.

Ha, your tough guy avatar could not be less applicable to you.

Hence the title.

 

[Hedberger]

Before i played Might and Magick Dark Messiah i had little fear of spiders unless they were HUGE and lying on my face. In this game there is a lot of spiders and they are roughly the size of an ATW. I think the designers intended to cause arachnophobia with this game because every time you face them it's under the most stressing and terrifying way possible. They poison you so you are under constant pressure to kill them as fast as possible, they are the strongest monster and the most sturdy, can't knock them over, so they are really hard to kill as well.

This particular time i was swarmed by them and had to solve a jumping puzzle in a very stressing time frame. After i while i thought i'd sit still for a while and snipe the spiders from a ledge so i could complete the puzzle without stress. It didn't occur to me that they can scale walls until one of them climbs straight into my face. The instant i saw it i hit the escape button but that only served to freeze the picture. So i ran away screaming just like my very arachnophobic little sister. My dad had to close the game while i stood in another room shouting instructions.

I think i have gotten over it now though. Strange thing is i've never been afraid of the real ones unless there is a close-up picture.

 

[Monkfish Acc.]

I once stepped on a huge spider.

Apparently it wasn't huge.
It was pregnant.

It exploded tiny spiders.
What the fuck, guys.

I did that, once.
Only the spider was above me, so I hit it with a stick.
The babies fell on top of my head.
It was not cool.

 

[Psypherus]

I had a spider fall off my ceiling and scoot across my neck while I was on my bed like a week ago. Needless to say, I screamed like a little girl. Spiders can just fucking die.

 

[Nmil-ek]

Australias not even the tip of the iceberg.

FUUUUUUUUCK!!!

I'm begging you, either take down the pic or put spoilers on it. Please, I'm shaking.

Pff, fine done, but you know theres a species even LARGER.

 

[Hedberger]

Australias not even the tip of the iceberg.

FUUUUUUUUCK!!!

I'm begging you, either take down the pic or put spoilers on it. Please, I'm shaking.

Pff, fine done, but you know theres a species even LARGER.

Pics or it didn't happen PM them if you must because this i gotta see.

 

[SomeLameStuff]

I'm kinda afraid of bees. Walked into my room one day and found an entire SWARM of the little bastards flying around. I got my flamethrower (deo + lighter. effective range of close to 2 meters) and burnt every single motherfker to the ground. Counted more than 250 dead bees during cleanup.

 

[Bofus Teefus]

I had a black widow which had somehow made its way onto my hat drop down in front of my face from the bill. Its like the thing was taunting me. I freaking hate black widows. I'm mildly terrified of other spiders since I can't tell the poisonous ones from the non-poisonous ones.

 

[Gitsnik]

Australias not even the tip of the iceberg.

FUUUUUUUUCK!!!

I'm begging you, either take down the pic or put spoilers on it. Please, I'm shaking.

Pff, fine done, but you know theres a species even LARGER.

The bigger ones aren't scary though. You can see those bastards coming! Fear is walking around the back yard, swearing you just heard a bunyip when a fucking DROP BEAR falls out of the tree and rips up your leg.

Ok but seriously, we have something like the more of the top 10 most poisonous creatures in the world than any other place (Citation Needed), most of which are tiny bastards just creeping around the place, or the water.

I once woke up with a king brown sleeping on my legs in the sun. My legs cramped before the sun started to go back down and he went away. That was my last weekend in southern NSW - thank $DEITY.

 

[bjj hero]

Who'd have thought there were so many big girls on the escapist?

I lived in Texas for a while. The wild life in Texas is a little too wild for my liking. Everything wants to kill or maim you.

I found a brown recluse spider (fiddle back) walking across my bed room floor. Its bite is painless but if left untreated causes the flesh around the bite to rot. The problem comes when the bite is some where you can't see.

It didn't win against me armed with a shoe though.

 

[Vanguard_Ex]

So, I was happily posting on my favourite site, the Escapist, when I notice a little gray hairy creature crawling on the back of my FAX machine. I immediately shot up in panic, and started looking at it from a distance, contemplating what to do next. I then noticed that this particular spider had the ability to jump, so, panicking, I decided to call my mum to help me out ( I know).
I watched as she took a piece of toilet paper from the bathroom and grabbed something behind my laptop, after which she proceded to flush it in the toilet.
Thinking that there was nothing to fear anymore, I cautiously walked back to my computer, but before I could sit down on my chair, the same fuckin' spider jumped in front of me from behind a pencil case. I then proceded to jump in the air and run away screaming like a little girl.
The spider was then taken down in a joint effort by my mum and dad, but still, I am now left scarred, afraid of going back where the "attack" happened and somewhat embarassed.

So, did anything similar ever happen to you? Are you an arachnophobe? Do you have any kind of stupid phobia?

This spider could jump?! Man I feel your pain, I'd probably be curled up in a fetal position right about now. Life-long arachnophobe, and many a nightmare of mine have involved jumping spiders. But to actually happen...jesus...

 

[Daye.04]

Pics or it didn't happen PM them if you must because this i gotta see.

Well, I haven't seent he picture, since absolutely despise huge spiders. But I once saw a picture of a spider that was half a fucking meter. It was insane. It was in the upper corner of the room, and had tons of small spiders run around it. It was like the mother of all spiders .. really gross