[Evans, Marv]

My wife had a tarantula as a pet that she kept in her office in a terrarium. Its name was George. The students were fascinated by it. Sometimes when a teacher would send a troubled student to her office, she'd let them watch "George" while she talked to them. Some students would make excuses to come in to see "George." My sister had one of those big wood spidets outside the doorway of her house. When they moved, she trapped it in a jar & let it go outside the doorway of the new house, where it lived there for several more years. The only spiders I totally dislike are Black Widows, which I kill imediately.