Quote Originally Posted by jamstigator
I'm not generally scared of spiders. But there was one time I got VERY scared.

During the invasion of Grenada, me and a friend went out on a recon patrol. We started heading up this hill, which was apparently someone's banana farm, banana trees everywhere, smelled like bananas. Was kind of enjoying the banana smell, but halfway up the hill, I looked up, and what I saw scared the the hell out of me.

Covering the tops of the trees, going from tree to tree, webs, everywhere, giant webs. And suddenly a big fucking spider fell from a tree, landed on my knee and bit me on the kneecap. I mean, this thing was just huge. They were some kind of banana spiders, and they were everywhere! They were several inches across, never seen spiders that large before.

Anyway, we booked like hell away from that hill, and while we did, we could hear and see spiders dropping down from the trees like hail, some landing on us and some not. I didn't get bitten again, and my friend didn't get bitten at all. (Hell, we were wearing flak jackets and stuff, not a lot of exposed areas for them to bite.) When we got to safety, I rolled up my pants, cut an incision with my bayonet across the spider bite and sucked what juice I could out of the wound. It swelled up, and I didn't feel real good (but I'd also had like umpteen different vaccinations a couple of days prior, so I was feeling like shit anyway).

Anyway, if you start smelling banana, and you see banana trees, look up and make sure there's not an army of big ass spiders waiting to fall on you.
I love you Jam. You always have some big ass crazy story I enjoy reading them.

My girlfriend hate spiders... if she sees one she runs in the bathroom and turns on the shower.. with or without cloths.