This phobia must be bad if I bothered to tell you about a spider 10 drinks later! I think I was happier when I thought one spider was following me about. To know that there are lots of them that will grow to adult size is quite upsetting.:crying:
That’s not all you told me after 10 drinks! 
Well that’s the first thing you have to stop doing, they are NOT following you about, they are around generally because of the time of year, Spiders don’t pick someone at random and then decide to stalk them anymore than bees do, you are just noticing them about the place because, as OldGuy said, they are looking to move indoors before the cold weather kicks in, if you really can’t deal with them and have to kill them then you could always use hairspray, my ex used to swear by it (she was terrified of the buggers!) as she could get them from long distance! (I don’t suggest doing a Bond though and using a lighter at the same time, you could make a right mess of your curtains!) :w00t:
That’s exactly why its called a phobia.
Bugger that !
I’ve became too soft living down here for years. Occasional visits to Skye and back home drive me nuts when the evil midgies are out.
I was back home a few weeks ago and I can honestly say that I have never seen so many wasps in my life, my home town was infested by them, everyone was talking about it.
(I’m a reasonably rufty tufty bloke but don’t like creepy crawlies either… sssshhh!!)
Count yourself lucky it wasn’t a camel spider
SPIDERS ARE EVIL!!!
WASPS ARE WORSE!!
I sympathise with your fear of spiders Anita - I’m not keen on having them near me either - on the other hand I reckon nature needs all the help it can get these days - I pulled up on the drive the other night and missed a huge toad with my front wheel by inches - I would have felt terrible if I’d squashed him (especially as they are endangered) - I picked him up - gloves still on! - and put him in the undergrowth - next night he was there again - sitting in the road! Needless to say - I ‘rescued’ him again! 
Check this bad boy (probably a girl actually) out!!http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Kreuzspinne.jpg
Cool!! I love spiders, nature’s answer to the fly problem
I had a massive house spider (I’m talking 3-4 inches inc legs) last year. It held me captive on my sofa for two hours.
Conkers are the answer, I had some on every window sill in the house last year and the number of spiders was significantly less than normal. Unfortunately I had to chuck them and not had the opportunity to replace them just yet. The house is literally crawling with spiders (I am phobic too).
Awwww yurtles scared of spiders:doze: never worry love they are more scared of you:D Its ANTS that i have a phobia about…was working away in me workshop on me industrial machine when an ant just happily walked across my hand…talk about nearly sewing my fingers up gawd i sheet meself!!!:w00t: can’t figure out where they are coming from but they seem to like the warmth of my workshop, pesky things:angry:
LOL dont really like them myself but they do come in handy when youve got a cute single neighbour whos scared s###less and calls you over everytime she sees one in her flat. Only problem is shes near hyperventilating by the time I get the things outside that theres not event the remotest opportunity for a thank you cuppa. 
Nice one - you have found something that puts me off food! I never don’t finish my lunch! :PI do talk shite when drunk Tim but I hope that at least it was entertaining - “nonsense” is my middle name! Thanks for the hairspray idea. Will need to buy some. Re: Ants - I used to come home to a few on the carpet when I lived in London in 2004 but never a line so that I could figure out where they were heading. Then a month later, I found hundreds in my top drawer trying to get into an ancient tub of immac wax with honey extracts! I didnt even know it was there, it was pretty much finished and it amazing that they found it. Perhaps you have something similar WASP???
My flat usually hosts a couple of giant house spiders:
which are, apparently, the fastest spiders on the planet - they do shift pretty fast. I had a run-in with one that had decided that my bath-towel was a nice place to hide, so when I flung the towel round my shoulders… lol! It tickled
It’s the only thing I’m scared of hon!
That’s the bugger!
Kept rearing up and waving it’s forelegs at me! Eight-Legged freaks!
That would be an idea if I had a good looking neighbour. I have renamed the one upstairs “Nut Nut” and the guy next door isnt really my type. I can cope with putting a glass over spiders now but its the stress of getting back quickly with a glass before it hides!
Loads of conkers around right now. Get them quick before they go mouldy!
Ha ha. We’ve just had an aggressive spider (we get loads of big b*ggers out here) – he was big enough that you could hear his footsteps when he walked across a magazine on the floor! Every time we went near him he stood his ground and reared up ready to attack. Kept me entertained for hours! I eventually cupped him up in his attack pose and took him outside.
Napalm…only naplam will do