Creepier when it is actually touching the door handle 
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Nah…that’s just a daddy longlegs. They eat mosquitoes, so they are very fine creatures indeed.
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Makes sense, but (as I recall) that was at least several months ago.
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I think it’s a Harvester spider. Seeing as it isn’t big and chunky and (so far) it lives outside, no worries.
Has a very Facehugger body if you look up close but who’d do that? 
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https://www.backyardnature.net/longlegs.htm
We clearly grew up in different regions of the country! I’ve never heard them called Harvester in Illinois, Wisconsin, etc…always daddy longlegs.
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I think you grew up on different continents.
(Not that there is anything wrong with that.)
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I’ll bet the Australian version is so large that you can spot the similarity from quite a long way away from it.
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I bet I can see the Australian one from my house
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Oh, right! Yup, that’s got to be it.
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This is from a Beetle Bailey book I got when I was 8 or 9. I remembered this comic and thought it was timely, over 40 years later…
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This exchange is being dubbed into everything, but it’s still amusing.
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Found at a nearby park. I think this the first I’ve ever seen growing out on its own in the “wild”
And then driving home I spotted this guy
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I was abducted once. Or maybe I just smoked an entire bush I found in the woods. I really can’t tell.
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