This post did not begin with a freak out. It was supposed to be some hopefully funny but insightful observation/commentary, yada yada. Except as I was sitting at my desk typing when (it all happened so fast!) a spider straight up descended from my ceiling at a high rate of speed, dropped onto my key board, and then crawled in my USB port. TRUE STORY.
A true story, I might add, that I am typing from the library now.
Because I committed mistake #1 when dealing with spiders: I lost sight of it. Luckily I am awesome in emergency situations, so I had a five minute girly shrieking freak out took a quick second to compose myself and then very calmly shut my computer, got up and left the house. Like any sane person would do.
The question remains: what do I do when I get home? Do I even need to go home? Anybody have a couch I can crash on for a few nights?
Meredith R. Allen 
hahahaha! I actually am legitimately arachniphobic and I made a complete fool out of myself the other day with my boyfriend. I was in the car and I lifted my left elbow and saw that there was a huge spider (size of a half dollar coin) on my elbow crawling up my arm!!!! I immediately screamed, my boyfriend freaked out because he was driving and then I freaked out and started crying! I NEVER cry so this was a surprise was a shock for both him and I. I screamed at him to get it off me and what did he do? He squished the spider on my, shirt, on my elbow! I started uncontrollably crying at this point and ripped my shirt off and threw it in the back of his car.
I’m positive my boyfriend is now lying when he says he finds me attractive after all of that, haha. So at least your reaction was somewhat more rational :)
I would have freaked out too. Squished spiders are almost as worse as live ones…I shudder in sympathy at your awful story!
This is hilarious…scary that there is a spider in your computer! I HATE spiders and know the feeling of not being safe in your own home. My new house in Fort Collins is infested. I was in bed one night and I felt something on my leg…SPIDER! On me. In my bed. Couldn’t sleep. Another one was behind me when I was using the bathroom facilities…puts you in a tough position….drowned that one in windex.
Death by drowning? I’m going to have to remember that!