I've had this burning question since I was very young........What earthly good are Spiders??
Whenever I ask this question, the only answer anyone can ever come up with is, they kill flies. *blank look*

Oh well if that's the case, why don't I find them dangling from the light fittings wielding a fly swatter.... huh??
After all that's where all those pesky flies congregate!

If that's the only purpose they serve, why can't we just make them extinct since we now have fly killer in a can?
As far as I'm concerned the only purpose they serve is to make my life a misery. They lurk in dark places, in cupboards, in the bath, under anything that hasn't been moved for more than 24 hours, and in the shed, just waiting for me to drop my guard before they decide to put in an appearance and scare the c**p out of me!!

Some of these things are indestructible, have you seen how they lay there playing dead after you've just pounded them into the carpet and they wait till you turn your back, then they somehow ressurect themselves?

One day at work which is a big old house in the country where you get HUUUUGE house spiders, I was just about to go from the lounge into the kitchen when I froze and let out the loudest scream. One of my colleagues, fearing I was being murdered, ran to my assistance to find me a jibbering wreck. He saw the cause of my alarm and knowing that if they wanted to get any more work out of me that day, he would have to 'take care' of it, so he jumped on it while I stayed at a safe distance in case he missed.
I still needed to get to the kitchen but was still cautious and asked if he was sure it was dead? He reassured me by pointing out that with an 18 and a half stone weight landing on it, that spider IS going to be dead.
Of course, before I could go through, I had to just check. Can you imagine our surprise, and my horror on finding it had gone?
Turns out, it was only stunned!!!!

If we really have to have them, why couldnt they have been made cuter? Maybe with fewer legs and fluffy with little ears?