There is no such thing as a cool spider Gary !!
When an infant, (i have an older brother by 9 years) my brother used to have a collection of Baboon spiders. Well according to `mother, she came home one day and found 5 of these behemoths crawling over me in the cot, and me in a state of hysteria having receive 2 bites.
I am proper phobic! Having had 3 daughters I even went to do the Spider phobia weekend at London Zoo, tried hypnosis and anything else that may work. Couldn't have a father more frightened of spiders than his girls!!!
Nada! I do have a morbid fascination though, as well as a sixth sense and can hear them walking on carpet in the dark !