Its weird huh? I've jumped out of perfectly good aeroplanes, had teeth pulled without anaesthetic, broken 9 bones and walked into hospital, regularly put a bare hand into 70,000 bees, I think snakes are gorgeous creatures. But no, if I was James Bond, you would just have to put that thing in the room and I'd tell you everything! I can see the silliness - but I think we all have irrational fears. My Dad was the same, I've tried not to show my horror of them to my daughter so as not to "pass it on". Its something in the way the move <shudders again>
you have just described me .......i'll stand back to back with you and fight the spider hoard !