I remember when I first saw a cockroach... so does everyone who was on IRC at the time... I was like WTF?!?... I climbed on my desk and used almost a whole can of bug spray.
I'm afraid to have my window open at night, because huge spiders always seem to get in through my window when I do.
Once I walked into my room, turned the light on and from the corner of my eye noticed a quick movement amongst the things on my bookshelf.
Huge spider.
I had seriously only been out of my room for 5mins... how it traveled that far all the way to my bookshelf I don't know.
A couple of weeks ago, I walked into my Dad's room in the middle of the night and woke him up thinking there was a snake or a spider in my room (obviously I'd just woken up from a vivid dream). A few nights later I wandered into my bedroom at about 8pm and found a large and hairy huntsman on the roof right above my bed. Dad got it in an ice-cream container and put it outside *far* away from my window. I walked into his bedroom at about 2am and told him the spider was back. He asked me if I was dreaming again. I told him that I couldn't have been dreaming because I hadn't slept yet (it was hot). He comes in my room, turns the light back on, and the spider I was sure was on the white timber frame of my window was no longer there. Dad was absolutely convinced I'd been dreaming again. There was no fking way I was sleeping in that room until the spider was found.... I was like "omfg-where-did-the-spider-go??". My curtains are kind of like
this and open vertically... I had them half open and tentatively opened them the rest of the way. Sure enough, there's an absolutely gigantic huntsman on the inside of the window at the *very top* camouflaged against the black of the night. Never have I been so glad to see a spider... I would have been too afraid to sleep until it was found.
To top it all off Dad goes "Oh, that's huge... that's not the same spider as before though... this one's way bigger".
Me: 0.0 *Abruptly closed window after dearest father disposed of the spider outside*
I have a dozen of these stories... I'm not just being paranoid about spiders getting in my room... it keeps happening... just last night when I went outside I nearly walked straight into a very big grey spider with loooong legs that was likely poisonous... it was just hanging there right in front of my face.
I'm happy keeping a couple of daddy long legs in my room... but I *really* hate big spiders... snakes are worse though... my sister and I were nearly bitten by a snake while we were bushwalking in Tassie last year.
/Shamed by girlishness.
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