Replying to Why do people hate spiders?

why?  most of them can't hurt you, and the ones that can are easy to avoid.  they don't really creep me out either.  my house has a lot of wolf spiders.  I have seen some pretty big ones the size of my palm, gotten bitten twice by one while I was asleep, and they really don't bother me.  I always catch them in a glass and release them outside my house.  I don't think I've ever killed a spider intentionally.  they keep the bug population down, and my house has so many bugs in the summer you'd have to see it to believe it.

wasps and hornets are a much different story.  spiders only bite as a last resort, but wasps will sting you for much less.  and you could easily escape from a spider.  but a wasp?  maybe, maybe not.  I had a hornet's nest in my chimney one summer, by the end of the season I would have to run through a screen of 30 or so hornets outside my front door to get inside.  that was some scary shit.

I don't know why I'm posting this, I guess cause I just watched a program on spiders.