Admit it, you're curious. /\oo/\
Erm... yes. And no.
I'm, well, scared by these beasts. I can't watch them in movies (going to watch Arachnophobia was a waste of money, I spent most of the time in the theater with my eyes closed), and I can hardly bear to see them - much less fight them - in games. Hexen 2, Thief, DMoMM... it doesn't matter, I have to fight game spiders with my eyes closed. The only non-scary game spiders I encountered were those in Ken's Labyrinth
...
When Sonny was given a really lifelike plastic wolf spider yesterday, it took me some convincing to carry if for him. But after having it sit on my palm for two hours my skin didn't crawl anymore.
I can't kill wolf spiders IRL because I don't want to get that close. Using the vacuum cleaner, okay, that's a way of dealing with them (and no, I don't mind if they get out again as long as they do it somewhere far away where I can't see them doing it). But I haven't vacced a spider since Sonny's birth...
I told him it was wrong to kill animals who don't harm us, or those who aren't usually eaten (though I have seen a recipe for wolf spiders somewhere) , so I couldn't kill them, right? My son's presence even forced me to catch a spider in a glass and evacuate it *shudder*.
Once Sonny had left a glass with orange juice in the living room. The next morning... well, I just saw a pale (!) creature swimming in the juice, just from the corner from my eye. I told hubby-the-spider-resisting-hero, he examined the glass, saw that it contained a huge, bloated, pale(!), drowned wolf spider... lifted the glass... and the spider spread its legs. No, it wasn't dead. Yes, it filled the glass. No, I'm not scared by face huggers, not in the least, but I'm really scared by pale, bloated, pale (!) wolf spiders feigning death while diving in glass filled with orange juice..