re: Australian woman finds huge spider in lettuce packet

Lived in a shitty apartment in college that was renovated out of an old motel. Apparently they had had a black widow infestation at one time so I should have known better. One morning I'm getting ready for class. Walk back into my bedroom to grab my laptop off the bed and reach for the TV remote to turn it off before leaving. I palm a Huntsman Spider as big as my hand and oh my god it has been years and I can still feel that thing wriggling around. I have mild arachnophobia so I freak. My roommate at the time had a longtime girlfriend with a much nicer apartment so I was on my own for the most part. I skipped class that day to hunt the giant fricker down and to kill it with reckless abandon. It had snuck off my bed after our encounter and went and hid under a stack of books in my closet.

I slept on my couch for a couple of weeks because I was too freaked to sleep in my bed Turns out Huntsman Spiders love eating cockroaches (which my complex was notorious for) and are virtually harmless to people so I felt kind of bad about killing it. Kind of.