That's a pretty good story Rebel....I would have definitely taken the same amount, if not more, of precautions as you! I HATE SPIDERS! We have black widows and a couple other species of poisonous spiders around here, but most are just harmless house spiders. Some of them fuggers can get HUGE though!
My coolest, and grossest spider experience was this: I was working construction during the summer of 2001. We were on the site about 20 miles west of town on a little old lady's farm. We were redoing the sheeting/siding on her house, along with building a deck and an elevated, wooden walkway through her yard.
We were tearing down the old siding, and I ripped a piece of siding down and found a HUGE pinkish/peachish colored spider with what looked like a brown asterisk (*) on the bottom side of it. The "butt" portion (Been a couple years since biology or anything, don't know the technical terms, so BACK OFF!
) was pretty big. It probably had a diameter close to the size of a quarter. After inspecting it for a while and seeing if it was alive (was it ever!), I took my hammer and gave it a good whack, pounding the living **** out of it. The gross thing is that the big "butt" part (shut up, stop making fun of me
) phrickin exploded! Spider guts were EVERYWHERE! It was like a damn water balloon! My face, hate, shirt, pants, my cousin who was standing next to me, and the surrounding area was covered! It was naaasty!
Just thought I'd share...