I just rounded the corner on my way to the kitchen and I came face to face with a rather large spider. He froze, perhaps startled that I had caught him in a rather unspiderly lazy walk across the floor rather than showing off impressive spider feats like walking across the ceiling or wall. I've seen spiders run and they can really organize those eight legs to get a move on, but this one stayed frozen long enough for me to locate a suitable weapon (one that wouldn't suffer from wearing some smashed spider guts) and use it.
We had a bit of an infestation of these sizeable spiders a month or so ago. We'd find one a day, or thereabouts. A spider a day does NOT keep the doctor away, let me tell ya! Apparently this problem has plagued many in our area because I've heard friends talking about it as well.
I eventually got curious and had to google these creepy guys. They are called Huntsman spiders, amongst other things, and are relatively harmless. They can give a nasty bite if handled (FAT CHANCE) but they aren't poisonous.
It's funny, reading a bit about these spiders made me feel less completely creeped out by finding an occasional one streaking across the hall. Now, I'm not saying that we didn't spray the hell out of the house in hopes of driving them out (which seems to have worked, mostly), but still.
I hate spiders.
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