Arachnophobia

[mrsinister]

Nothing like crawling under a car, wrestling with the filter, draining the oil, having a gob of baby spiders crawl out of the control arms and drop by the dozenload on your face.

 

jesus, it still feels like they are crawling on me, and i still have to go out and put it all back together.

 

garage kept, just that time of year i guess.

[Geonovast]

Spiders don't like getting sprayed with PB.

[-600JeepMJ]

just about any thing that comes of a spray can will drive a bug to suicide :ack:

[Automan2164]

Had one hiding in the handle of the top of the Weber... Got it fired up today, and saw him... He was trying to stay on top of the handle to escape the heat. I kept hitting the handle with the tongs until he touched the top of the lid, and dance himself right into the vent on top. Bet it was a little hotter inside with the charcoals. Was a jumping spider, about the size of a dime.

 

 

The other grill has some hornets making a nest, so I picked up the lid, doused the whole hive with lighter fluid, closed the lid, and slid in a lit piece of paper... Carnage.

 

Rob L.

[jimoshel]

Did you serve them up with just salt an catsup or did you throw in a little BarBQ sauce? :thwak:

[neohic]

...baby spiders crawl out of the control arms and drop by the dozenload on your face.

 

OH MY GOD!!! I had the same thing happen to me when I was 6! Under my parent's deck, birds always make their nest under the boards. We'd always look between them to check on the eggs... until one day! NEVER AGAIN!

[dunl]

I used to work in a produce section, and we'd always find black widows in the grapes coming in from California or Chile.

 

One of the guys almost went off the road after finding one some morning. He was driving home and a little spider descended from the driver's sunvisor in front of him. :yes:

[Automan2164]

Black widows!?!? E'gads man. The GF's ex got bit by a brown recluse. Had to graft part of his @$$ on to his thigh because of the tissue die-off... But he was an idiot anyway...

 

Rob L.

[wyk]

I used to be afraid of spiders, but then I realized that I have never in my entire life had a bad spider bite.

 

However, I HAVE had some bad bee and wasp stings. Those insects I respect and leave alone. Well, I do now. Before that, I had one instance where I had to move a truck that had been sitting for a while. I was using a flat bed roll back wrecker. So, between the noise of the diesel and the fact you don't hook up the rear of the truck until you have it up in the air on the back of your wrecker, I didn't notice the entire back end of the bed of the truck was a wasps nest until it was in my face. Thousands and thousands and thousands and a LOTS of them. It was the largest nest I have ever seen in my life. It was a ford F350 and the nest covered everything from the axle to the fender wells to the rear bumper. And by the time I noticed them, they were very upset. I had my big J hooks in my hands at the time, so I quickly threw one around the rear axle and secured it to the back of the wrecker. Then, I ran and screamed like a woman to the cab of the wrecker and prayed to god I wouldn't have to go to the hospital. I was fortunate, I had only a few stings, and actually had a good buzz goin' from the venom. Almost pleasant. Like I feel after a few shots of my favorite cognac ;) I had my work gloves and heavy duty clothing on, which prolly saved me from the hospital. I took the roughest and worst roads I could to my destination. By my arrival, there was only a few signs of the nest and wasps left.

 

So, spiders? Whatever... ;)

[dasbulliwagen]

Did you serve them up with just salt an catsup or did you throw in a little BarBQ sauce? :thwak:

 

With some Favre beans, and a nice Chiante! ( In my best Hannibal Lechter voice )

[beepbeepmyredjeep]

I used to work in a produce section, and we'd always find black widows in the grapes coming in from California or Chile.

 

One of the guys almost went off the road after finding one some morning. He was driving home and a little spider descended from the driver's sunvisor in front of him. :yes:

 

I used to work at a grocery store too. I was bagging groceries up front, when I heard a blood-curdling scream come from produce. I ran over to see what was wrong, and the poor girl working produce came across a tarantula inside a box of bananas. The maintenance guy happened to be in the building at the time, so he took the tarantula into the back parking lot and lit it on fire.

[Sir Sam]

By my arrival, there was only a few signs of the nest and wasps left.

 

So, spiders? Whatever... ;)

 

 

Wasps man, those fuggers.

 

Last year was really nice around the house in the summer, we had so much rain during the early part of the summer it kept the wasps at bay.

 

Then the weather turns cold and you don't have to worry about em, or so I thought.

 

Come the first part of october I am walking along at the junkyard when I feel a sudden sharp painful needle sensation, I'm thinking I just cut myself on a piece of a wrecked car. Nope, fuggin wasp got me on the arm.

 

I get through the whole summer without getting stung, and then one of them buggars gets me in october.

 

if you hate wasps you'll love this guy:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AafmbxkNNu8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG1RrzH7-cY