h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I found one inside my tennis shoe when I was a kid. When I was putting it on. I threw it across the room and stood on a couch That was the only time I got freaked by a spider. My dad and brother were wusses around them, but I used to pick them up in my hands and take them outside.

I was bitten by one once. I was carrying my bike up the gully to the road with my hand under the seat, which is where he was sleeping, obviously. I was just a kid, and even though I knew I'd been bitten by a spider and it could've been anything, I figured that if I fell off my bike on the way to the shops I'd know if it was something poisonous. And if I didn't, then no worries.