Spider vs. Me

I noticed recently there's been a lot of talk about spiders and how everyone wet themselves because there was a black widow in Donovan's sleeping bag in Arkansas, so I thought "Hey, I can talk about spiders too."

In Australia, where every damn thing is poisonous, I worked in a Redback spider (related to the black widow) infested greenhouse. Before fumigation and subsequent extermination of the spiders, I would frequently encounter them, and after a time, got annoyed by them enough to just flick them with my finger, thus knocking them out of their web, then step on them to kill them. That is just how awesome I am. There was also a plan to get bit by one of the spiders to get out of some annoying work that had to be done, but after some consideration it was concluded that this was a bad idea. Anyway, here's a picture of one of the redbacks I took in the greenhouse.

Also, redback is the name of a good wheat beer they brew around here.