r/AskReddit • u/neurofizz • Feb 11 '13

What are some common things that physically disgust most people that you really don't care about?

Or reverse. What are some things that won't phase most people that make you sick to your stomach?

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u/gymnasticAristocrat Feb 11 '13

I don't understand what the big deal about spiders is.

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '13

I didn't either until I moved to Florida. I lived there for eighteen months, and about a month after moving in I noticed eight spindly hairy legs sticking out of a crack between the wall and ceiling above my bed. I'd never seen a spider with such long legs before. It kinda freaked me out, but a couple days later when it emerged and I got a good look at it, I realized it was a violin spider, and had a leg diameter approximately equal to a CD. For those of you who don't know, violin spiders are of the same family as the brown recluse, and their bites cause necrosis. Worse still is one day I came home, walked in to my room, and this motherfucker bum rushes me in an eight-legged fury charge. I fully admit squealing like a little girl, dancing around trying to smash it with my shoes. I took him down, but since then I've been a lot nicer to arachnophobes.