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Originally Posted by Stitchawl

When I lived in So.Cal there was a tarantula walking across my kitchen floor one day. I'm enough of a naturalist to KNOW that California tarantulas aren't dangerous. I mean I really KNOW this. But it didn't make the slightest difference. Still scared the daylights outta me!


Stitchawl

LOL Stitchawl! That story reminds me of the summer that tarantulas invaded the Texas Panhandle. I mean they were everywhere. In Palo Duro Canyon state park, you could even see them wandering down the paths. Anyway, one got into our house on a Saturday morning. Being a teenager, I was sound asleep when my mother saw him in the kitchen. She screamed bloody murder for me to "come kill it!!!!!" By the time I made it out of bed it had of course disappeared due to my mom scaring it to death with her screaming and throwing things at it. We never saw it again (unfortunately for my mother's peace of mind), but neither did we ever find another one in the house. I never did find out exactly why tarantulas were so prolific that year either, come to think of it.