Help! May nakapasok na malaking spider sa kotse ko!

[Jun aka Pekto]

I've seen this while visiting the Philippines. The females are bigger. This one in the photos is male and looks about ready to die soon.

I remember seeing a female one while taking a shower in the bathroom of my brother-in-law's house. There I was showering with tabo and pail staring at it while it sat motionless and stared back.

I have no fear of spiders. When I first went over there, the house we stayed in was near a shantytown (squatter area). So, many of the kids I played with were from there. They often looked for spiders and made them fight on a stick. I often went looking for spiders with them which were found a lot of times in some very nasty places like the squatter's toilet area. Soon, I was looking for spiders on my own and handling them. I even got bitten by one. I just shrugged that one off.

Add: He He. I kept the spiders in a matchbox divided into compartments with cardboard. Kids paid a lot of money for those spiders, esp the orange ones (2 pesos in late 1970's prices).