[masraum]

I don't think I have any phobias, but if i did, it would probably be spiders. I love to watch a spider in a web. I don't mind a spider that's "over there." What I don't want is a spider on my person. I don't like running into a web face first.

We have tarantulas here. I saw one once while out mowing. It was very timid. They are, from what I understand, actually pretty fragile. If one crawled up my leg, I think I'd launch it into orbit while sheitting myself.

My wife's grandmother used to have a house on some property that the family used as a get-away. It was down a 1/4mile drive that was essentially a tunnel through the woods. There were many weekends when we'd leave when I got off work on Fri night, and get there at 10 or 11pm. Driving down the 1/4 mile drive, you'd see hundreds of webs spanning the driveway hung between the trees. The bodies of the spiders were bulbous and the size of the end of your thumb. As we drove down the road through their webs, you'd hear the thumps as they hit the top of the car. Then when we got to the house in the pitch dark, you had to get out of the car that was potentially covered in large spiders. That was always my least favorite part of the trip.

They were usually this sort of thing.