If a spider fell in your lap while you were driving would you scream like a girl

[Botchmun]

So I was up island from where I live, staying at a lovely lake and enjoying the scenery. There's something red at the corner of my eye. I take a sip of my drink and try to see it but it turns when I turn my head. I reach up and feel something warm and not-metal on my glasses, so I take my glasses off. Bright red big spider on my glasses, centimeters from my eyeball. "Oh, sweet!" I coax it off my glasses and examine it. A friend crushes the spider on callous instinct so I bum-rush him off the dock and into the water.

Doing yard work back home, huge-ass (Seriously, dat abdomen) spider making a web right in my way. I take the damn thing on my hand and move it to another part of the house 'cuz I don't wanna keep walking into the webs its making.

Takin' la poops, notice black spot on floor moving. OMG JUMPING SPIDER! I pick it up and make it jump from one hand to the other then put it outside so no one kills it.

Had a HUGE spider in my room as a roomie, I think it was just a house spider since it made no webs, primarily travelled the floor, and was so big that when I turned the lights on he didn't scamper to cover, he just turned slightly and walked a little slower as if to say "DEAL WITH IT." I declared him my bro and stopped people from hurting it. I almost cried when I accidentally stepped on him one night.


I used to be an arachnohobic like you. But then I took a spider as a friend. Also I'm covered with spider bites and there's one creeping up your pants leg right now, you can totally feel the mild itch of it getting higher higher, just moving over you, legs grazing your shin, working up to your knee.

[NeoExdeath]

It's called moving to Australia if I'm not mistaken.

As someone born, raised and currently residing in Australia, I can confirm this as factual.

How did I not know you were an Australian?!?!

Melbourne ftw.

[Shaibana]

i'd problably crash my car wit a barrol rol.
somehow drop out of my car in complete panic and scream my lungs out while stumble and roll on the floor

[LunarWeaver]

I'm sure I'd be too drunk to mind.

[Shiny]

If the spider looked anything like it did in the original post, I absolutely would scream. GET IT AWAY!

[Aulayna]

If I could drive, which I can't, and that happened to me - then I would probably freak out big time, likely crash the car in the process and then set the damn thing on fire just to make sure! Then beeline as far away as I could to the closest place I'd feel remotely safe and then freak the hell out.

Then I'd go to the pub. Down probably an entire bottle of Vodka. Get arrested by the police for crashing a car and setting it on fire and then probably get put on community service and given an ASBO.

editSomewhere amongst all that I probably would have troutted myself too

[Botchmun]

we have several species of poisonous spider in Florida and I'm not very good at telling them from the others.

Florida... there are fiddleback spiders in Florida aren't there? Things like the Brown Recluse? Those would probably curb my Irwin-esque hands on approach to arachnids slightly. But only slightly. Scariest thing in my neck of the woods are black widows but Brown Recluses make my jaw drop what with the flesh necrosis.