The Creepy, Crawling Hitchhiker!

10.24.07
A sweet friend of mine had gone through all of her boy's clothing, boxed them up and sent them my way. This box of clothes traveled across 3 states, in each state, the box remained at a resident's home. The boxes arrived to me late Monday evening and in the wee hours of Tuesday morning, I started to sift through them, mind you, basically in the dark. I made my little piles of sizes and let them sit for one more day. This afternoon, I bent over one of the boxes and noticed a small cobweb had formed on the top of the box. I thought that was strange, (hoping this cobweb wasn't there Tuesday morning!) went and grabbed a tissue to wipe the cobweb from the box, and then looked further into the box. In one super cute shirt there lie the hitch-hiker. Thank goodness I had the tissue in my hand, I quickly grabbed the spider, ran into the bathroom and tossed it into the toilet, being careful not to squish it! (who knows if it would have bit me as I was squeezing it!) I then ran and grabbed my camera to show all of you.
Do any of you know what kind of spider this is? This experience happened about an hour ago and I am still freaking out. You can ask my husband, he would tell you I don't get freaked out by spiders or crawling things. I am the one that kills these insects in our home. But THIS FURY-LEGGED spider has given me the permanent eebie-jeebies! AHHHHHHHHH! Perfect right before Halloween huh?!