If you are afraid of spiders or have issues with seeing them, do not go under the read more.
I was at work, taking stuff to the stockroom while another associate was cleaning out stuff from the truck that came in and we both saw this big black spider hanging upside down from its web.
Naturally, I went into full ass panic mode when I saw this.
Say hello to a black widow. My camera is kinda shitty when I zoom in, so it blurred out the color of her abdomen, but fucking trust me, that little hourglass was there and staring me in the face. (not to mention the fact that the web structure and her position in the web are clear giveaways that she is indeed a widow spider)
My coworker just looks at me like, "Should we kill it?"
LIKE HE NEEDS TO ASK. I give him this stare and tbh I'm probably looking scared shitless, like "It could kill us!"
Neither of us wanted to get close though, but we found the handle of a broom or something, basically a 5 ft stick, and he smashed her.
At least it didn't look like she had any web sac with babies in it, or so fucking help me I'd have set that stockroom on fire just to ensure the deaths of all those venomous little demons.
If you work in the US, please be mindful of things you grab in the stockrooms, especially closer to winter, black widow bites aren't usually fatal, but CAN be.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk, I'm not gonna sleep for the next few weeks.