How 'Bout Some Daily Nope?

Here you go arachnophobes. That black widow? She's not out to bite. She just wants to hug your thumb.

Really, she wants you to leave her alone in her web, but if you happen to want to feel some shivers today, Coyote will free handle one to show you how disinterested they are in actually biting you.

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Gee, thanks but no thanks. LOL.

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What a beautiful and fascinating creature..


But, oh hell nope!

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Out of all the arachnids out there, this one has the most class and beauty!

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WTF?

They are beautiful arachnids, but they die. I found one in my mailbox: killed.

Several years ago, while doing some remodeling, I found a web of several dozen newlyhatched: killed.

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Arachnids are absolutely fascinating creatures when they are outside of my house. Outside.

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A black widow once died from a Watchitburn bite.

I was drunk.

Yep thats a giant nope with a side of barbeque lighter and rave aerosol hairspray.

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I think we have these in Florida but can't recall seeing one.

I am more aware of rattlers, coral snakes, big gators wild boar, rabid raccoons, scorpions, wasps, hornets and armed thugs all these I've encountered and walked away from.

I was bitten in the neck by a crab spider, considered poisionous (or something like it) as I walked through its web right before picking up a young lady for a date.

It stung like heck and made me sort of hoarse by the time I knocked on her door.
I felt kind of off,
but this was a date!
no time to seem like a wimp.

My solution at 22 years of age was to drive her to Pizza Hut drink a pitcher of beer, she had her own, and eat pizza.

CURED!

I think this was one of the things that cemented in her mind I was "different" than her average guy.
or it might have been having her own pitcher of beer....

Dammit!!!

U shoulda put a whole lotta line breaks and a disclaimer before that pic.

NOPE!

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Nice! Usually when I say "This pitcher is mine. Do you want your own?" on a date, she gives me that look.

This is good to know . About 5 years too late though . Picking up sticks out of yard. Felt something ticklish on the back of my hand. Turned hand over . One about the size of a golf ball (I know , but to me at the time it was freakin as big as King Kong) Didnt know whether to crap or run a foot race. Reflexes took over and I just inhaled then blew the damn thing off its perch
Then proceeded to run screaming into the house.
"Nuff Said"

a reply to: NarcolepticBuddha well, after all it was a "medical situation" .

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I lived in AZ for 2 years, and was not afraid of the black widow at all, encountered them many times. I had a neighbor there that swore they would come after her at the mailbox; but to me, they seemed delicate harmless spiders.

Don't like the Scorps though