My relationship with spiders.

i thought it was more...

and there are 2% of americans who have a cockroach living in their ear canal...see? you CAN learn something from Maxim

Where I come from anything with 8 legs is best killed on sight. Practically everything is lethally poisonous. Although I don't mind a few "daddy long legs" spiders as they help to keep the dangerous ones under control.

I used to hunt for them, put them in little baggies and study them with aid of "spider" books I purchased.
Then I would release them outside.
This was all done to better understand the spiders in my house, and to get over my fear of them.
It totally worked.

actually they do have the ability to bite you and are in fact venomous. their fangs just aren't long enough to pierce your skin.

also, that spider swallowing thing: from what i've read it's about 8 in a lifetime. i'd be willing to bet it's slightly higher but i've heard 8 from a number of sources. including snapple.

and all you spider killers: i hope you rot in the most painful centers of hell.

Spider are great- they eat bugs.
I was bitten by a Black Widow spider once when I was a teen. That was no good. But Cat Spiders are by far the most menacing, and build the most beautiful webs.

Spiders are best under a shoe, book, or between the folds of a kleenex.