This gave me a chuckle

[SkunkPaw]

I am deathly afaird of spiders. I don't care if they are big or small they all freak me out, especially the ones that jump. EVEN THE FAKE ONES freak me out. As you know Halloween was just a week ago and I have a 3 year old that got a plastic spider. He seems to think that it is funny to throw it at me... It is not missing.

Well this morning just a few minutes ago my son was pointing by the patio and said that he saw a spider. Since I know his fake one is missing I go and look. There is this big ugly scary fuzzy brown spider sitting on his "bunga" (aka drink). Luckily it is by the patio door. I go to the kitchen to find the bug spray, which isn't there and I go back looking at this ugly creature telling my son to stay back so he doesn't get bitten. I am thinking dh doesn't get home for another 4 to 5 hours... I could call the office but that would seem a bit of a reach... So I come to the conclusion that I need to throw the cup outside. He is after all in front of the door. I reach over the couch to unlock the door and he moves and follows me. My son is watching this entire thing.... Laughing at me... I unlock the door and say, "Now Mr. Spider I am not going to hurt you, just throw you outside." I open the doors and pick up the cup by the lid, and try to throw it outside. Out goes the spider and I managed to spill his bunga all over the patio. The lid came off and the spider disappeared. This isn't the funny part..

After this happens my son decides that he is going to be the macho man and goes to the front door where there is a piece of fuzz that looks like a bug. He looks at it and tells me to stay back so it doesn't bite me. He walks up to it and figures out that it isn't a bug and still tells me to stay back and to be still. He finally picks it up and throws it outside.

[Jenny]

That is the good thing about having boys! I have three teen boys and since they were actually pretty young, they have been my bug disposers! I will say, Boys, there is a bug in here, and they all come running. Seems to be the only thing they work well together on!! On the bad side, one day when they were still pretty young, let's see, like 3-5-7 I had a very uneasy feeling VERY the only way I can explain it was that God was telling me to check on them right then. I walked out back to see them playing with a black widow spider together, passing it around!!!!! EEEKK!!

They also open doors for me, pull out chairs and put high stuff away (they are all taller than I am now) boys are amazing!

[BrandiJK]

Spiders. Petrifing. I spent years not even going in my own back yard due to my fears. But when Sage was born I had to try to hide it because she was picking up onit too much.

Now, she knows I don't like them...and if I have to "take care" of one, you can bet it will be w/ a vacume and several hose attachments (which I then leave running for 15 minutes unless the sucker tries to crawl back out). Being the good buddhist she is, she has learned to handle spiders herself. Mom kills the demon spawn!

That's sweet he's out to be your protector for you!