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Originally Posted by jp4m2  I read the OP thread & thought,..."OMG!! Where does she live!!" then I saw Texas...when I live in the north I kind of forget there are different life styles in other parts of the country....I don't know if I could live where there are tarantulas wondering about...I would be on edge EVERYDAY looking out for them, I couldn't go to bed w/o a blanket check, I would like to know there wasn't a third party in the bed w/ me...& I would NEVER put on my shoes w/o a check in there, he better not be wearing them before me...EEEWWW!! |
haha.... Actually, I have NEVER seen a tarantula in the house and try not to think about them being outside BUT it's not like I see them all the time either. I might actually see a couple in our yard in a whole summer but I see them crossing the roads more often than that.
And speaking of shoe checks.... where my friend lives in Elgin (out in the country also), they DO have to do shoe checks every time because of scorpions. At an old house of mine (rent-free very old house next to my grandparents), I use to have to turn on lights before walking through any room when it got dark because of those dang scorpions. I only got stung once - he was hiding in the laundry basket - and I never want to do that again! I'd rather be stung by a wasp or yellow jacket! And I'd rather not feel the wrath of a hair throwing tarantula either!