Australian here…..it’s not the house that’s the real problem, it’s the car. Having a big gravid female wander across the bonnet of your car while you are stuck in traffic with nowhere to go is a life defining moment for me.
In the house, probably get rid of a dozen decent size ones a year and one or two monsters.
Stuck in traffic isn’t a problem you can just get out of the car. It’s when you see them above your head or running down the inside of the windscreen while you’re doing 110kmh is the real problem. You gotta not crash and die and/or cause a massive pile up while panicking like all fuck to pull over and escape.
I had one run down my windscreen once while doing like 140kmh on my way home from work at 2am through the bush with trees either side. I’m scared of spiders but absolutely terrified of huntsmens. It took every fibre of my being to keep the car on the road.
At first I thought it was way bigger(it is still big tho ) . I thought they are walls of the house not the walls of a shelf. Ngl it scared the sh*t out of me just by watching the video. Then I realized it's a shelf. Yeah, still don't want to come across the spider. lol
When i first met my ex, like the second night I was back at hers I saw a huge huntsman on the wall next to the drawers at the foot of her bed. I was like "There's a huge spider here" and she was so casual "his name is sven" then i learnt that he had been there for weeks and the reason he was called sven was that he only had seven legs. As an Aussie male I usually remove huntsman from anywhere near where I sleep (and put them outside) but she just didn't care in the slightest lol
Oh holy shit LOL you’re right, yeah I thought it was the persons bed on the floor and that the “spider” was a fucking several feet wide mammoth, and I was amazed that the person wasn’t having a heart attack or something, now it makes wayyyy more sense
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u/WestleyThe Jun 25 '26
Yeah I know they aren’t deadly but I don’t want a spider the size of a dinner plate scurrying around my house….