All things considered, at least it's not as bad as the
"hand spiders" we have
where I live. Made worse by the fact that they're not only big, but smart enough to know how to be stealthy. Yeah, frikkin' giant ninja spiders.
Imagine, if you will, minding your own business late at night, and then all of a sudden a spider the size of your hand decides to walk across your computer monitor while you're reading an article or responding to a post. Made worse by the fact that it now essentially has territorial immunity since you can't really just smash it with a shoe, nor spray it with Raid (and they've also built up one heck of a resistance to that stuff as well now). Now you have a screen that
looks like it has been shot by a gun and you can't really do much about it until it's off the screen; unless you can spare the cash to buy a new one later.
I actually had to get over my arachnophobia in order to deal with these things around my house, since everyone else has just about chickened out dealing with them nowadays. Oddly enough, as a New Year's resolution, I might attempt to get over my arachnophobia the rest of the way, and try to capture one, instead of killing it, and spare it's life. More for myself than them. Maybe not as extreme as my example above, but at least a reasonable enough size where I don't have to resort to a bowl to capture one. I prefer to use a cup instead.