The "I hate spiders" entry

Turned over a rock two days ago and there was a black widow spider. Now this is the third black widow found since we moved here. I immediately smushed it. Alex said,"You're not like me at all. No looking at it, no examining it." I said,"I looked at it! I saw it was a black widow spider. So I killed it."
Used to be I would have taken off running, but I'm a little more tolerant of my aracnophobia. I am at least able to kill an offensive spider, something likely to put the whoopin' on one of us if it were to bite.