People should stop killing spiders for no good reason.

[Jamastiene]

146. K&R

I have a plastic container that I saved. It is the perfect size to scoop them up and take them outside. It annoys me too when people kill spiders just because they are there.

I had been attempting to film (my camcorder works when it wants to) a spider for about 2 weeks. Its web was right at the front door and catching oodles of ants. So, I decided to leave it and check out all the good it was doing. We had a really bad infestation of those little biting piss ants that year. I just wanted to test it out and see just how many this spider was eating, because I saw ant carcasses all around that area when I spotted the spider first.

The spider ate oodles of them and I didn't have to spray bug spray because of it. The ant problem went away. So, I left the spider to hunt other stuff to eat.

Well, it was a sad story. My step dad came over and was standing in the kitchen talking. Now, keep in mind, I had kind of gotten attached to this little spider and had talked to it and everything over that 2 weeks. Anyhow, my step dad saw the spider, went straight over, and stepped on it and wiggled his shoe back and forth to rub his little guts into the floor. Then, he said, "You don't want spiders in the house. They'll bite you and their poison will eat your skin." I literally cried over that spider. I told him I had been watching that spider for 2 weeks. It had been eating ants and had never offered to bite me. I wasn't on that spider's menu. The ants, on the other hand, DO see me as "on the menu" and when they bite me, it swells up and causes all sorts of allergic reactions. Between that little spider and those ants, I'd rather the spider had lived and continued being my all natural ant killer buddy. I really got attached to that spider. I was so hurt he just killed what had become a friend "just because."

So, when you kill a spider, you spider killers, don't fucking do it in someone else's house. You may not only break a family member's heart, but at the same time cause them to get bitten by an ant and spend 2 weeks treating a painfully swollen allergic reaction to some kind of insect bite. I eventually had to spray for the ants.

Damn you spider killers, especially the ones who kill them in another person's house.