While my logical brain tells me not to panic at the sight of a spider, I just can't help myself. The weirdest part is, I freak out more at the really big one even though in this country (South Africa) they are not the poisonous ones. We have large garden that is full of spiders. I've had to take family members to hospital twice with spider bites. My rule if they are in their realm (garden), I'm happy to leave them, but if they set one of their eight legs in the house, they get a shoe smashed on their heads.