Spider Bite

i wasnt trying to make anyone to cry...

Up into my teens, I used to have arachnophobia big time. When I was little, I thought of them as deadly monsters that could kill you if they bit you, so I always freaked out whenever I saw one! Lol. What got me over it the most was a combination of things. Firstly, reading The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings novels, which feature scenes with brave Hobbits valiantly slaying some evil giant spiders. I figured, if a little Hobbit could be brave, then so could I. ;) Plus, playing a lot of fun D&D computer games, where you fight evil giant spiders as some of the monsters you face in your quests, that really got me kind of used to crushing the nasty buggers. Finally, a friend of mine told me that if I could sit through the entire movie of Arachnophobia then I would either never be afraid of spiders again, or I would be truly terrified of them for life or possibly traumatized by the experience. Thankfully, seeing that movie got me so used to spiders that I was indeed never again afraid of them. When the movie Eight Legged Freaks came out, I saw it, laughed at how silly it was, and loved it! Once I was well out of my teens, and well over my previous fear, I became the resident spider killer at home that everyone went to whenever they needed a spider killed. So your grim little spider poem made me think about all those wild and crazy times! :D