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Do u have an Irrational Fear?

starchini posted on Jun 12, 2008 | views: 234 | Tags: spiders, fears, irrational, hysterical, arachnaphobia, ROFL
I was driving into the city to buy a swimsuit that would morph me into Jenna Jamison...
 
I was rocking out to "Sex and Candy" with my air conditioner on high, flying down the highway doing 90 mph...i like to go fast...
 
I was on the phone with Phil, he couldnt come bc he was stripping his cordova for scrap iron cash...
 
When suddenly i see what appeared to be a tarantula crawl from my vent closest to me on the drivers side! 
 
I scream in hysterics, drop my phone, slam on the breaks going from 90 to 0 in 2.5 seconds.  Swerve off of the road.  And through my legs over the middle console and hop to the passenger side, swing my door open and fall to the ground.
 
I burst into tears hysterically bawling.  I dont know what to do...where did it go? 
I call Phil, crying about the massive spider in my car and how it almost killed me.
 
He laughs!  "Baby, what can i do?"...."nothin...ill deal with it myself, click"
 
I walk around the car to observe from the outside, trying to see where it went to.
 
He is nowhere.  I crawl in the back seat, peering at my dash from the back...i can hardly see through the fountain running from my eyes...
 
I was crying in the back seat for a good half hour, when a police officer pulls up behind me.
 
I quickly stuff my 6-pack of mikes hard lemonaide under my seat and get out off my car wiping my tears mumbling "thank God ur here!, i need ur help"
 
He has his hand on his gun, either he thinks i was left for dead on the side of the hwy and he was on the lookout for my perpetrator or he thought i was insane and dangerous.
 
He asked what was going on...
 
I explained to him exactly what happened with the big spider and the swerving and how i need it out of my car...
 
He didnt laugh like Phil did...
 
He grabbed my arms and began searching for "meth bites"
 
People on meth often hallucinate imagining bugs all over there bodies and they pick at their skin until they bleed...
 
After he examined me and my body he came to the conclusion that i was not on drugs.
 
He busted out laughing..."should i call the fire department?"
 
"no....but can u kill it?"
 
"want me to use my gun?"
 
"sniffle, sniffle, no......"
 
He looked around in my car and said there was no spider and that it was safe to reenter the vehicle.
 
I was very embarrissed at the time but i was more scared than anything bc i wasnt to the city yet and i knew he was lying and i was starring at my vent the entire drive...
 
So are u guys that terrified of anything?


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  • SeanRenaud said on Jun 12, 2008....
    I probably would have done the same thing, doesn't make it any less irrational though.
  • starchini said on Jun 12, 2008....
    lol, i imagine u doing the same thing a lot funnier than me doing it : >   And yea it was irrational..in my head it was a killer tarantula but in reality it was a much smaller version...bout the size of a nickel...furry and fat with yellow and red spots...I wonder what kind it was?
  • uniquely-ironic said on Jun 12, 2008....

    Me too, I'd have probably bailed out while it was still in motion.  I know very few spiders can kill you, but why risk it?!! huh?!!!

    I had my daughter step on a spider here at work this morning.  It couldn't have been more than 1/4 inch, but I gave it a 3 foot berth until she stepped on it.

  • SeanRenaud said on Jun 12, 2008....
    Oh nickel sized one is a smallun,  He'd annoy me and I'd tell him to shoo.  One of the parks near me has real tarantuals, you know them sons of bitches that are like mice with too many legs. 
  • SeanRenaud said on Jun 12, 2008....
    A spider, no big, a tarantual I'm diving out of my window at 90 MPH, and stopping cars with my bare hands.
  • uniquely-ironic said on Jun 12, 2008....
    to me a nickel size spider might as well be godzilla.  when it comes to my irrational fear of spiders size is not a qualifier.
  • SeanRenaud said on Jun 12, 2008....
    Size is the deal for me, I'm not afraid of spiders, or lizards or snakes.  But I garun-damn-tee if a thirty foot constrictor showed up in my office I'd be on the phone for 911 and calling for a goddamn nuclear strike on my location
  • uniquely-ironic said on Jun 12, 2008....
    I'd almost feel better if it's big.  At least then you don't have to worry about it crawling under the couch or something.
  • SeanRenaud said on Jun 12, 2008....
    ROFL.  A spider too big to crawl under the couch isn't something i want to see.  I mean fully grown rats get under the couch with no effort.  A spider the size of a small dog. . .fear is no longer irrational at this point
  • uniquely-ironic said on Jun 12, 2008....
    yes, at that point jumping on the couch and screaming like a hysterical sissie only eggs it on.
  • starchini said on Jun 12, 2008....

    I have held a tarantula...It crawled on my arm...I agree with unique the huge ones are less intimidating bc u know they are there.  Its not so much the fear of the spider itself as being bitten.  The small ones bite as much as the big ones but if its big and i can see it its less scary than if it were hiding in the vent of my flippin car! lol....

    Example...are u more afraid of a human axe murderer, or a ghost axe murderer...Ill take the guy i can see anyday...lol

  • starchini said on Jun 12, 2008....
    Spiders and cockroaches are the only critters im afraid of.  I love snakes
  • SeanRenaud said on Jun 12, 2008....
    Am I more afraid of Casper or Jason?  Sorry Jason wins here.  The ones I can't see might startle me but they don't scare me.
  • starchini said on Jun 12, 2008....
    no no no no...not casper...who would u be more afraid of.  A Jason that can kill u but u can see, or a Jason that can kill u but u cant see?
  • starchini said on Jun 12, 2008....
    casper was the friendly ghost, everyone prefers him to jason, silly : P
  • SeanRenaud said on Jun 12, 2008....
    But the little spiders can't kill you,  Widows are pretty big as spiders go.  And so are recluses.
     
    Though Casper was also unfair.
  • fearing said on Jun 12, 2008....
    That car would still  be sitting beside the road if that had happened to me.  I would have walked!

    I'm scared of the boogie man.  ;-)
  • rmuxagirl said on Jun 12, 2008....
    I do the same thing with slugs!  I hate slugs I will run in terror from them.  If there is a slug on the side walk from the rain or something I will walk in the yard like 4 feet away from it for fear that it would follow me and touch me HAHA.  I hate all things slimey.
  • wombat said on Jun 12, 2008....
    I would have freaked too!  But you did some fancy driving there and were safe, thank goodness!  I am terrified of snakes.....and oddly enough, firecrackers!
  • Fallyn said on Jun 12, 2008....
    i am laughing soooo hard right now. this is one of the funniest post and comment combinations i've seen in awhile.

    however, i'm not scared of spiders...not even on me. *shrug* not really scared of any insects. so that's likely why it's funny.

    not scared of much of anything anymore.....except the bottoms of rivers. ...now if you had a swimming spider...that would freak me out and i'd likely panic and drown.
  • Fallyn said on Jun 12, 2008....
    oh...UI....what strikes me so funny about your comment....is that you'll risk your daughters life so she can squish it for you.  *grin*
  • Lucytorial said on Jun 12, 2008....
    I get spiders in my car all the time, big fuckers too, I was driving just like you when one came out from behind the sun visor, I didn't exactly break a sweat or freak out but I was out of the car in about 10 seconds, rolling up a bill to flick it out) friends drove past waved, I waved back, then thought, shit I didn't see if I actually flicked it out or over to the passenger seat??

    I don't think its irrational, spiders can be creepy!
  • polarheart said on Jun 12, 2008....
    Star, I wouldn't call it irrational. . .ok maybe a little.  But, its a REAL thing you are scared of.  I am not scared of spiders, but I dont like them too close. . .tarantula would prob have made me stop the car too!!!  However, I am pretty sure it was nowhere so big in your instance. . .it must have just felt that way! LOL!  I am glad to hear you are alright.
     
    My irrational fears are really crazy.  They revolve around things that cant be seen and have no depth.  Now that's what I call crazy!
  • cuppajava said on Jun 12, 2008....
    Hi Star,
    i probably would have done the same thing - but i wouldnt have bothered to swerve the car off the hwy - i would have just opened the door and bailed on the freeway.
    We get big ones here to - but mainly in summer - they are the flat spiders - and they are about 10cms across.They are always there but they just come out in the heat.
    I had an encounter with one in the litchen about 3 months back.He was a big fucker too.It took me about a half hour to get him out with a broomstick -he ended up playing cat and mouse with me - so I had to kill him with the broomstick - didnt want to,but i had to- i was scared my cat would get hold of him instead.But i think you did the right thing - maybe over reacted but the right thing non the less
     
  • mom said on Jun 13, 2008....
    Spiders don't bother me too much, if they are big though, I give them their space.  My son had a rose haired tarantula and he would take it out of its tank sometimes.  He brought it out to the front room, and set it on the floor.  It just stood there calmly, all of a sudden it took off into a run right for me.  I did a standing jump right into my chair. I told him, if you ever bring that spider out here again, I will kill you then the spider.
     
    I saw a bird eating spider once and those suckers are big!  Cool looking but big!
     
    Rmu-  I really laughed at what you said, I was envisioning those old horror movies where the monster is walking slow and the girl is running in terror.  LOL
     
    I think the thing that scares me is water. When we went on the cruise, I would look at the water, it would be smooth like glass.  I felt hypnotized by it.  I kept wondering how cold it would be and how deep.  I would get lost in my thoughts of how easy I could climb over the bannister and jump in.  It was eerie.
     
     
  • SeanRenaud said on Jun 13, 2008....
    I have an irrational fear of roller coasters.
  • queenparanoia said on Jun 13, 2008....

    thank goodness nothing serious happened!!!

    i'm scared of snakes and zombie movies...

  • SeanRenaud said on Jun 13, 2008....
    I used to worry about Zombies.  Now I have a plan.  No really with diagrams and planned barricades.
  • SeanRenaud said on Jun 13, 2008....
    I used to worry about Zombies.  Now I have a plan.  No really with diagrams and planned barricades.
  • FutureGoddess said on Jun 13, 2008....
    As an arachnaphobe (sp) I totally understand, however, I really did chuckle by the way you told your story.  I just "see" the cop being suspicious that you are on drugs -
  • starchini said on Jun 13, 2008....

    Sean, i think recluses are the ones im most afraid of, they are smallish, and can kill you!  We actually have those in nebraska and i know a hand full of people who have been bit by them.  The wounds are disgusting. 

    Fearing, i wanted to walk!  I was so close to asking the officer for a ride, but i didnt...I was in the middle of no where! lol u gotta remember fearing in nebraska towns are few and far between : )   The boogieman doesnt scare me one bit...i believe in him too, but hes just a big sissy boy   ; P

    rmux, that is too funny!  I love slimy things, if i see a worm i cant help but pick it up and slip him between my fingers, caterpillars are awesome too!  Slugs, i dont see many wear i am from and they usually come with shells, but i like slugs too!  Crazy how some things scare people and others play with those things : P

    Firecrackers wombie! lol, i love firecrackers!  are u scared of all loud noises or is it the blowing up that scares u?

    lol, yea there are some funny commentors in here fallyn, i cannot believe u are not afraid of any bugs.  I will tell u for fact though, in nebraska there are swimming spiders that eat minnows and crawdads, they freak me out too! 

    oh lucie!  spiders in cars are the worst!  there is just no where to go and u are trapped until u can escaperoo...eek...

    lol, yea polar it was no tarantula, but damn it scared me as much a tarantula wouldve...so ur scared of things that are invisible and have no depth...like ghosts and poltergeists and such?

    omg cuppa i could not imagine those spiders around here, i would move wow...my skin itches just thinking about  those things : P 

    mom, Its weird that actually tarantulas dont scare me...but if it chased me omg yes that would freak me out!  lol...i know what u mean by the wanting to jump in the water thing that is creepy.  But ud have been lost at sea! lol...all cuz u wanted to be in the middle of the ocean...those gigantic squids creep me out, not knowing what is beneath u freaks me out when in the ocean.  ack...

    I love roller coasters sean.  that fear definitly is irrational, only one in a bazillian kids fall out lol... : P  I wanna go bungee jumping.

    queenie, so are u scared of zombies or just zombie movies?  lol..

    oh future a fellow arachnaphobe : )  yes the cop was a riot thinking back "want me to call the fire department" he said with a sarcastic teasing grin...shit head.  lol...

     

  • polarheart said on Jun 13, 2008....

    No, just things that may or may not happen.  I believe that angels and demons exist, but not ghosts etc.

    Polar x

  • starchini said on Jun 13, 2008....
    ahh..afraid of the unknown...makes sense...u dont know it.  Duh...that is scary...angels and demons and pretty much anything else i believe in..its pretty easy to make me a believer..  I want everything to be real  : >
  • wombat said on Jun 13, 2008....
    starchini-----it is the suddeness of the "pop", not knowing when a firecracker will go off, or if it will hit you in the eye or something!   I always run in or far away when someone is setting them off.  All loud sudden noises scare me, and anything unexpected like someone grabbing me from behind----probably a good reason for this.
  • SeanRenaud said on Jun 13, 2008....
    PEople are funny with the stuff they believe
  • Lucytorial said on Jun 13, 2008....
    *******************BOO******************
  • Wish_Upon_A_Star said on Jun 14, 2008....
    "in Nebraska there are swimming spiders that eat minnows and crawdads"
    oh hell no. i would never get in the water...
    although speaking of irrational fears i hate getting into lakes and rivers because whenever something brushes by me foot or skin i think it's a shark and freak out.
    and yes i know there are no sharks in the lakes around here, but there might of been a monster in the one in Idaho... you never know :p
    i too am an arachnaphobe.  i once stayed outside of my room for eight hours until someone came to help me kill the black widow in the lamp above my bed.
    i am a little sissy when it comes to bugs....

    the worst things about snails is stepping on them (on accident!) because you feel the crunch and then the ooze just like when you step on a slug...

  • starchini said on Jun 17, 2008....

    Well wish, they are more like "skimming" spiders...they kinda just float on the surface.  They walk on water.  They are scary, but i dont see em often and usually the best defense is pushing the water away and sending him off in another current lol. 

    I totally understand the fear of "mythical" stuff being real.   The lochness, the giant squid, dinosaurs, etc. lol.  Well i know dinosaurs are extinct but what if? lol.  Maybe they are just hiding. 

    Oh man, 8 hours? lol.  Dang.  I once ripped the shower curtain down and ran from my bathroom buck naked because there was a spider on my arm, i slapped him away and freaked the fuck out.  My dad thought it was hilarious.  Jerk... : P

    lol, again with the ooze, hehe, i like the ooze.  I like to squish mud between my fingers and toes too.   Worms and slugs feel the same way : P 

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