I appreciate spiders in the sense that they eat bugs. I DON'T appreciate spiders in my stuff. They don't belong on my clothes, in my room, etc.
Especially not if they are capable of killing ME or my DOG.
I used to have a friend in Arizona who handled black widows by hand. I thought he was loving insane. Then he showed me a half gallon jar full of living, moving black widows
I stopped hanging out with him after that
Also, I don't mind scorpions, considering I grew up in Arizona. I remember when we were unpacking boxes from our move, a dead scorpion was at the bottom of one of the boxes and I hadn't realized it, so I started carrying the box and I heard a sliding sound. I looked down and flipped out, dropped the box and stepped back
Then I realized it was dead and I continued walking with the box, to throw it away
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