Usually freakout videos on the Intertubes are fake or embellished greatly, but there is no doubt in my mind that this woman is genuinely absolutely terrified of spiders. This caring daughter takes her sweet time in capturing a spider that is absolutely scaring the bejesus out of her dear mother. To make things worse (Or better for us) she records her mom’s entire traumatic experience.
“It’s a jumping spider!,” she shrieks. “It’s gonna get me!”
“I’m gonna have a heart attack!” she screams.
So you must be thinking, “Well it must have been a gargantuan tarantula, larger than a grown man’s hand.” Nope. It was an itsy bitsy spider no larger than a nickel, but it didn’t stop this woman from having an all-time meltdown.
She goes so far as to even threaten to murder her own daughter if she doesn’t kill the spider, which seems totally rational.
She commands her daughter to not only flush it down the toilet, but to stand there and watch it go down the drain to ensure that the arachnid is definitely dead.
If this woman had her druthers she would burn the entire house down to the ground.
Arachnophobia: Noun – The extreme or irrational fear of spiders. Also, see this video.
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