If I were to list my greatest fears in order, aside from the obvious (varying flavours of death), it would go something like this:
1) Needles
2) Heights
3) Spiders
So, I have made some headway on heights, I took up climbing in university which helped me go from "PLEASE NO! LET ME DOWN! PLEASE!" to "... i dont like this
"and I have mostly conquered spiders, but it is still an unpleasant jolt to see one unexpectedly, but once I have seen it, and there isnt any chance its gonna start crawling on me unexpectedly I'm good. So, generally, I see a spider, its *Jump, calm, then busy myself either ignoring it or getting rid of it. Still, after the above, I think you understand my relationship with spiders. I will be a man about them, but I dont like being confronted with them unexpectedly, so context over, on with the point.
I have had to move back into my dad's house temporarily (couldnt flat hunt during a lockdown so needed a place to live after my lease ran out) but its been laying vacant for 6 months, my dad has been living at his girlfriends waiting out Covid, and in that time, the damned spiders, which were always kinda numerous here, have become fucking omnipresent! In the 5 hours since I got home from work, I have had a 12cm Giant House Spider (yes it has "Giant" in the name) fall out of my laundry when putting it in the washing machine, another one crawl up the wall on the stairs, 3 common garden spiders were hanging around on the front door (2 outside, 1 inside), and i found 2 false widows, one in the bathtub, and another fell from the damned ceiling. I am sleeping in my brother's old room because my old room has so many spiders in it its unreal, no matter how much raid I use and how many i kill or throw out there are ALWAYS more, and my brother's bedroom is the only room the spiders dont seem to venture into.... much.
I get rid of something like 5-10 spiders a day in this house (more on the weekend when I spend more time inside), and they keep coming back, and they are enormous, and now some are venomous (the false widow is a new addition to the population). Normally having the run of a semi detached house all to yourself within the M25 is a blessing, but at over 90 minutes from work and CRAWLING with spiders, I am really hating living here.
1) Needles
2) Heights
3) Spiders
So, I have made some headway on heights, I took up climbing in university which helped me go from "PLEASE NO! LET ME DOWN! PLEASE!" to "... i dont like this

I have had to move back into my dad's house temporarily (couldnt flat hunt during a lockdown so needed a place to live after my lease ran out) but its been laying vacant for 6 months, my dad has been living at his girlfriends waiting out Covid, and in that time, the damned spiders, which were always kinda numerous here, have become fucking omnipresent! In the 5 hours since I got home from work, I have had a 12cm Giant House Spider (yes it has "Giant" in the name) fall out of my laundry when putting it in the washing machine, another one crawl up the wall on the stairs, 3 common garden spiders were hanging around on the front door (2 outside, 1 inside), and i found 2 false widows, one in the bathtub, and another fell from the damned ceiling. I am sleeping in my brother's old room because my old room has so many spiders in it its unreal, no matter how much raid I use and how many i kill or throw out there are ALWAYS more, and my brother's bedroom is the only room the spiders dont seem to venture into.... much.
I get rid of something like 5-10 spiders a day in this house (more on the weekend when I spend more time inside), and they keep coming back, and they are enormous, and now some are venomous (the false widow is a new addition to the population). Normally having the run of a semi detached house all to yourself within the M25 is a blessing, but at over 90 minutes from work and CRAWLING with spiders, I am really hating living here.