Two miles into todays bike ride I felt a stink on my big toe. Not your normal pinching but a scream out loud, "What the f#@$ just bit me" type of deal. I stop and take off my shoe and out crawls this mega huge wood spider. Another great part of of living in New England is the spiders are not poisonous but people do react to them sometimes. So I spend the next two hours waiting for my foot/leg to swell and fall off. Nothing happened thanksfully.
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Re: Freakin spider bit my toe!!! [peethreeguy]
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If you want, post your address and I'll send you a couple of black widows from the fleet that live in my yard and occasionally in my house. One of the joys of San Diego county.
Glad your bite wasn't poisonous.
Glad your bite wasn't poisonous.
Re: Freakin spider bit my toe!!! [peethreeguy]
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Consider yourself lucky. Three years ago I got bit by a Brown Recluse. Two trips to the ER and couldn't wear a shoe for over two weeks.
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Re: Freakin spider bit my toe!!! [peethreeguy]
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Hey, if your toes smell so bad that you can feel it, then maybe you need to wash them better!! =P
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Re: Freakin spider bit my toe!!! [Cousin Elwood]
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Yikes, those scare the crap out of me. Black widows I can handle b/c they keep to themselves. But critters that wander around looking for food give me the willies. Especially if they'll wander into your bed, closet, etc....
Re: Freakin spider bit my toe!!! [Pooks]
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"Especially if they'll wander into your bed, closet, etc...."
Little shit wandered into my shower. I saw him one morning and I'm a live and let live kinda guy. Besides, spiders control more annoying insects. The next morning I must have rinsed him off the wall or something, because he ended up on my foot. I'm seriously impaired, visually, so I didn't have any idea what was making my foot sting until I got out of the shower and put in my contact lenses.
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Little shit wandered into my shower. I saw him one morning and I'm a live and let live kinda guy. Besides, spiders control more annoying insects. The next morning I must have rinsed him off the wall or something, because he ended up on my foot. I'm seriously impaired, visually, so I didn't have any idea what was making my foot sting until I got out of the shower and put in my contact lenses.
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Yeah, let's be grateful we don't live in Australia. They have those little brown sometimes deadly bastards that live around Sidney. My cousin had to kill one in her room when she lived in Oz. They were once confined to a small habitant but apparently they've been hitching rides on motorized vehicles and are starting to pop up in other parts of the country.