I was taking a lunch break in Cambridge, MA a couple of years ago and a very excited construction worker started calling me over..."You gotta see this, you gotta see this!". I walk over and he opens his bag of grapes, still in the grocery store plastic bag, and see a huge Black Widow spider. I'd seen plenty of Black Widows in Arkansas, we'd catch them under the barracks and keep them in terrariums....but this thing was HUGE!
We don't have Black Widows, or much of anything that's lethally poisonous in New England so you can imagine how shocking it was to everybody walking by. We have rattlesnakes but they're rare to see. Ticks and Lyme Disease are the big danger. NOT black widows.
Back on topic, when I first moved to Los Angeles I was surprised by how laid back newscasters were here. Back in Boston they were very formal. Here in CA, despite the nightly 30 minute recital of who got killed in what neighborhood, they'd laugh and joke around. One day they had three female newscasters reporting somebody had broken into a lab in Australia and stolen and ingested enough of an ED drug to give the thief a four day erection.
One reporter says, "My husband's been out to town for a week, he's gonna need that because we have a lot of catching up to do". The second reporter says, "No thanks, I can't get my husband to put his away and he's always ready to go", and the third just looked wide-eyed and, "Can you imagine how much fun that would be?"
I almost fell to the floor I was laughing so hard.