You Know You Are An Aracnophile When:

[Wolfy72]

When your 5 year old son can sit tell everyone who visits, the common AND Latin names of all your spiders.

 

[Ando55]

-When this site reigns on your list as #1 in terms of time spent browsing/reading/etc. and in hits visited.

-You realize there is no such thing as learning too little or too much about Ts in general and about specific species.

-You thank everyone at the boards once they help you successfully plan preparation for your new T(s).

-You find it very amusing and worthwhile to browse the genus galleries, pick out your favorites and then browse dealer sites subtotaling the total amount to buy your favorite Ts.

-You visit every dealer site you know everyday on the hour by the hour or even by every 30 minutes to see if they have any new T(s) and arachnids.

-You might not want to read your college textbook about history but you'll gladly reread The Tarantula's Keeper Guide and Tarantulas and Other Arachnids eight times over for good "leisure" reading

-You consider time watching your Ts interact, move, moult, eat, and crawl around very worthwhile and fun.

-You consider every member on this board an automatic good friend to go if you need help caring for your Ts or if anything goes wrong; props to everyone here!


*Thats all for now, I got classes at 9:30 but need to be up at 7 or so, I'll post more tomorrow or should I say this evening!*

 

[Nightshade]

When people ask you how you can sleep at night with huge hairy spiders less than 3 feet from your bed and you respond: "Quite soundly, actually, because nobody will ever want to break into MY house."

 

[Ando55]

When people ask you how you can sleep at night with huge hairy spiders less than 3 feet from your bed and you respond: "Quite soundly, actually, because nobody will ever want to break into MY house."

Rofl, I like that one!

 

[Pennywise]

I started this thread back in the summer of 2005 and I can't believe it's still
going. Wow!

I have a new addition

You know you are an Arachnophile when:

You have dream about giant hairy spiders crawling everywhere
and you awaken refrehed and pleasantly relaxed.

Happy Webbing! Pennywise

 

[Mr. Mordax]

You have been known to commandeer your significant's computer when they weren't looking so you could log into AB (after logging them out :razz

 

[Nightshade]

You know you're an arachnophile when you notice some lumps of dirt your T. blondi dragged out of the flowerpot while it was renovating after the move and you're tempted to take them out and keep them in a special place like bronzed baby shoes, so in a year or two you can look back on the cute things it did when it was little.

 

[Stylopidae]

You know you're an arachnophile when you require affection for spiders as a dating requirement.

 

[cheetah13mo]

You know your an Arachnophile when:

nobody wants to come over to your house for any kind of fuction, including family and your completely ok with it.

someone asks you how your spiders are doing and go in to an hour long detail of the complete process of molting and it's recovory.

you can sit here and come up with hundreds of reasons when you know your an arachnophile.

 

[Selenops]

When you suffer instant whiplash while passing by any wall with cigarrette ash or burns on them thinking you spotted a Salti or Widow.

When you pass the ivy hedges and find yourself studying it more intensely or deeply than one should publically hoping to find a local mantid for a pet or wonderful food items like grasshoppers for your inverts back home.

 

[Sicel1304]

When you prefer calling spiders by their true Latin names instead of their common names.

When you proudly show "your little girl" to all the customers at Petco. And by "little girl" I mean a picture of your 4 inch female G. Aureostratia.

 

[Stylopidae]

You know you're an arachnophile when your day is like this after missing the postman delivering an overnight package:

1.) Drive down to the post office and learn that the package delivery person isn't back yet

2.) Check in at the post office every 15 minutes until they offer to give you a call on your cellphone

3.) Check in every half hour afterwards, still listening to your Ipod in the parking lot

4.) When they finally call you, you're at the desk before they actually tell you the package is in and you feel like you have to apologize for being obsessive

5.) The woman at the post office smiles at you and says this: Actual quote, BTW

You don't use the word obsessive lightly, do you?

(Special thanks to Padkisson for the M. giganteus and the A. chalcodes )

 

[rex_arachne]

you're an arachnophile when/if:

you say "good spidey/scorpy!" when you're feeding your pets and they are very alert at grabbing their prey.

you exclaim "cute scorpy/spidey!" when you see your newly acquired sling (scorps or Ts or whatever) for the first time.

you think vinegaroons are one of the most beautiful creatures on earth. lol.

 

[JonathanF]

You know you're an arachnophile when you read this thread, and actually understanding everything

 

[Ungweliante]

1) You want to rescue a T from a pet store because the peat moss doesn't look fresh and the T "looks unhappy". After spending more time with the T in the pet store you realise that the T "wants you to take her with you".

2) You carry the said T home between your breasts because the Finnish winter is cold and the T "is happy and warm there". During the trip you keep telling the T that it "only has to endure the vibrations of the trip home only a little while longer" and "you're sorry and you know how scary it is". When you get home you tell the T "what a brave girl she was".

3) Next night you get a dream about all your Ts telling you that they love you and hugging you, and wake up with an insanely happy grin on your face. You immediately call all your friends and family and tell them about the dream.

4) You would never, ever, not in a million years, consider a relationship with a guy who wouldn't accept your Ts.

 

[P.jasonius]

You've actually read all the posts in this thread!

 

[funnylori]

You just had a dream about an giant A. versicolor sling bitting you in the middle of your palm for 5 minutes and you just waited until it was done and slide it off your hand. Then in your dream you pokie sling gets out and is running all over your body, tapping your eyes, and generally staying just out of reach. So in your dream you just hold still and ask mom to hold a butter tub over it.
Then when you wake up in the morning you check out your palm and are dissapointed there aren't any bite marks, and are relieved when a quick glance reveals that nobody escaped. -I like dreams.

 

[jllobet]

your boss asks you to clean up his garage and you find an empty 5 gallon aquarium that hasn't been used in a long time while doing it. You take it to your car, hide it, and take it home on your lunch break, then you tell your boss you accidentally broke it and had to throw it away, but one of the walls was broken so it didn't really matter, and your boss believes you. (Actually happened)

You only search for tarantula videos in youtube, and have at least one video uploaded there.

Your relatives know that if they don't tell you they love yor Ts is as if they didn't love you either.

 

[Mr. Mordax]

If Amblypygids no longer appear odd to you

If you debate leaving your day-job to just charge for tours of your apartment

If people actually ASK for tours of your apartment

If you simply can't comprehend how someone could possibly be scared of your female P. imperator -- or even your cute tiny H. paucidens

 

[Transylvania]

You're at a friend's house and at midnight you call your parents to tell them to check on your T, wondering if she ate that cricket. (Guilty)