Well, the thing is that it's not the big spiders that you need to be wary of. They're generally harmless (even those Huntsman spiders the size of your open hand that crawl up the wall above your bed...). It's generally the smaller spiders that you need to look out for. They're the ones that can kind of kill you and have a tendency to crawl into your shoes if you leave them outside at night. Anyway, it's not just the spiders you have to watch out for[^]...

That reminds me of when I was traveling through Yellowstone National Park on a photographic expedition and I met a nice older American couple. I was explaining to them that I had to "get up at a sparrows fart" to get the dawn shots that I wanted. All of a sudden their eyes glazed over (as if staring off into the distance), eyebrows furrowed in and a general blankness crept across their face, as if all the colour had been drained. Needless to say it killed the conversation, and when I left a few minutes later they were still standing there trying to figure out if I had said something meaningful, insightful or insulting.

Yeah, she was more entertaining than most of the videos...