You Know You Are An Aracnophile When:

[Aarantula]

You no longer have any Tupperware containers in your kitchen because you've drilled air holes in all of them!

 

[funnylori]

When nobody minds that you just revived the best old thread.

When you sell your soul to get that grail T.

 

[Truff135]

...where you once despised cockroaches, and you now make sure they are living comfortably in your home...

 

[brglss]

you know your an arachnophile when you wake up to see your T eating a cricket and the first words out of your mouth are "how cute"

 

[Drachenjager]

If you have ever given your wife an Avicularia versicolor sling for valentines day...you might be an arachnophile...

 

[JayzunBoget]

... when it's a good thing when your pets shed!

 

[petshopguy]

When your decision of whether or not to buy an invert depends on the odds that Federal employees might show up at your front door.

When www.arachnoboards.com is the top website on your scroll-down menu.

When you take a laptop with wireless internet with you to Arachnocon, “just in case a great deal shows up on the For Sale thread.”

When you find yourself staring at a T and your mind starts going – “Molt! Molt! Molt! Molt!…”

You mourned the announcement that BotarX8 was sold.

When you feel a sense of accomplishment the first time that your OBT sling made an aggressive lunge at you.

You made a list of critter species you can expect to find in the state that you will spend your next vacation.

You know that the T that just got loose can survive on the crickets and roaches that occasionally get loose, and you have some comfort that you’ll prob find him one day, even though he’ll be 2-3 times bigger.

When you’ve had nightmares of your package falling off a shelf inside the UPS/Fedex truck.

You can have an hour-long conversation on the differences between The Tarantula Keeper’s Record v2.1 and v2.2.

You know what “sp.” means.

You wish you lived further south.

You correct people who say that tarantulas are poisonous.

You tell yourself that if shipping is going to cost THAT much, it would be more fiscally responsible to add another T or two.

You can take a two-week vacation without worrying about your pets starving.

When you notice that it is hotter than 80F outside and you start stressing about how hot the delivery truck might be.

You have stuffed cotton balls into the abdomen of a T’s molt.

Most of your mail comes with freebies.

You suffer from garage-sale whiplash during the summer, cause the world is full of people who owned a hamster for about 2-3 weeks, and you just can’t pass up a deal for a $3 10 gallon aquarium (with lid – yeah baby!)

You love fellow AB’ers for the helpful tips, but despise them for beating you to a great deal in the For Sale thread.

You're envious of our European brothers, because their import regulations are much more laxed.

You've wondered -"What's the worst that could happen if I get caught smuggling one of these on a plane."

 

[unitard311]

When most of your conversations begin "did you know that tarantulas...."

When you watch your T's enclosures more than you watch tv

When you purposely get up many times a night to see if your OBT came out of its burrow

When you cheer your T's on as they hunt

When you close your eyes all you can see are the latin names of T's

When you view the photo thread and take pictures with your camera phone and show them to others

When you rescue a wild T from a friend's party before its smashed with a rock

When you tell your boss you are going to be late cause your T is molting

 

[Truff135]

You mourned the announcement that BotarX8 was sold.

Yes, but Ken is a great guy and I'm glad to see Botar's go to someone like him!

When you feel a sense of accomplishment the first time that your OBT sling made an aggressive lunge at you.

And you find it endearing that your little avic darling just shot you with poo.

You correct people who say that tarantulas are poisonous.

Can't tell you how many times I've done this...

You can take a two-week vacation without worrying about your pets starving.

And on a similar note, you don't have to feel irresponsible if you haven't cleaned its tank in a few months...

You love fellow AB’ers for the helpful tips, but despise them for beating you to a great deal in the For Sale thread.

All's fair in love and war, my friend.

 

[unitard311]

When your non-T loving friends start telling you they are having dreams about spiders after hanging out with you

 

[Drachenjager]

You wish you lived further south.

UMM i wish that when the Temp gets below 65 F lol

 

[jen650s]

When your rosie juvie stands up in a threat posture when you are trying to remove the roach she didn't eat and you burst into laughter because it is just so cute.

When you meet the daughter you gave up for adoption 21 years ago and find that her adoptive mother has never been able to handle the fact that she has a thing and always has had a thing for...ugh bugs . And, the very first thing the daughter asks when she hears about all the Ts is when can I meet them :clap: .

 

[jshadowstalker]

when family members bring there children and there friends kids to your house, to see there uncles insect ZOO. lol wish they would give me donations like zoo's get =)

 

[Sr. Chencho]

When you want to buy new Ts from the For Sale AB section, and your wife wants another one for her, one of every specie.

When the wifie, that got seriously bitten in Arachnocon07, calls you at work and directs you to a certain page in AB where there's an ad of Ts that she wants and says, "It's a good deal, buy it for me".

When you come home from work at 2 am and her laptop screen is on AB.

When you're at home reading discussions on AB on your destop, and your wife, who is four feet away, is on her laptop also on AB.

Poor thing, somebody help her! Send an antidote, PLEASE!!

Fredster

 

[saminthemiddle]

During the company's annual white elephant gift exchange, you excitedly choose the huge black plastic spider everyone else eyes with revulsion. :}

When you accidentally squeeze it, hear a squeak and realize with delight that it stridulates!

When you figure it must be a new world spider because it has plastic urticating hairs. ;P

When you flip it over to try your hand at ventral sexing.

You feel ripped off; new world spiders aren't supposed to stridulate!

 

[petshopguy]

Send an antidote? Send me her sister!!!!!!!

 

[Aurelia]

You know you're an arachnophile when you have dreams of getting more Ts right at the time you don't have any money left and the Ts in your dreams are big, beautiful, and rare.

 

[Nightshade]

When large roaches make you happy.

When you end up on a dealer's website every time you log in to AB, to see if they still have the species you would buy if you weren't broke.

When you find yourself talking to your Ts when you're home alone with them.

When your boyfriend wants to send you to an expensive spa and you tell him to buy you a spider.

 

[Talkenlate04]

When you post on this thread almost 3 YEARS after it was started!!!!!

 

[Oasis Inverts]

You Know You Are An Arachnophile When:


Your tarantulas home is cleaner than yours....