I should have waited too because I've been curious how long before the spiders super predator skills snagged some food. I wasn't scared. There was no fear and neither of us got hurt. Again, that's for sure. That's because they don't know how to fly yet.
Primal fear is defense against real threat.
Even a big rat with the long freaky looking prehensile naked tail is no threat to anybody. All they do is breed like rats and that's nothing to be afraid of. They don't breed disease as is popularly perceived and they do not deserve to be loathed and despised. The only disease rats know is caused by eating the left-overs people throw into the garbage. If you open the window just a little bit the fly will make a getaway.