Dang spider

[Marigold2]

Ok so now it is 2:18 am. And I am wide awake, why?
Well for one we just got back from vacation and I am unpacking and doing wash and whatnot.
But mostly it is because as I was rearranging my night stand there was a BIG BLACK SPIDER on the wall behind my pillow. I tried to hit it with a O magazine and the bas&&&d got away.
About 7 minutes later there he is again. DAMN THING!! I am going to kill it. I grab Oprah again, hit him this time and he falls on the carpet. I look down and he is no where to be found.
GREAT GREAT GREAT. Now what the bloody hell am I to do.
You just know that as soon as I turn out the light he will creep and crawl all over my body and bite the living day lights out of me.
He will probably bit my rear end or my back, places difficult to stratch.
Oh I hate spiders. And here are my three boys. Boscoe my big fatty, Ki-Ki Mr. Cutie Pants and Jake a Poo the good boy all sleeping. Jake is actually snoring. Does anyone care about the spider that will bite mommy?
NO, mommy cleaned their potty, gave them ice water and food, petted them and kissed them and now they are on the bed, not even looking for the horrid creature lurking by the bed ready to pounch and give me the willies all night.
DAMN!!!:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

[wombat2u2004]

Don't worry Monica.
Spiders don't eat much, so he'll probably just bite you a little bit ;)

[Marigold2]

The itsy bitsy spider climbed up my bedroom wall.
I hit it with an O magazine and it started to fall.
I looked and looked and could not find it at all
I finally laid down on my bed and started to relax
When the ugly thing ran across my white sheets
Ready to attack.
I grabbed my computed mouse and based it's head in
The itsy bitsy spider is deader then dead.
The legs came off and flew opposite his head.
Now my white sheets have a nasty brown stain.
But the spider is dead and I can relax again.

[chocolatepuppy]

Ha ha!:D I have a tiny spider in my closet, never could get him, but he is tiny and few feet away from my bed.;) Would do no good to clean the closet as he probably relocated.

[Alysser]

How about the time I had just groomed Mikey out back and I was laying on my bed with my laptop and a CENTIPEDE crawled out from under my pillow? I SCREAMED, my brother comes running in and sees me crying on the bed like a freak. He finally finds it behind the dresser and Mr. Centipede gets crushed and flushed down the toilet. SCARIEST moment of my life.

[wombat2u2004]

How about the time I had just groomed Mikey out back and I was laying on my bed with my laptop and a CENTIPEDE crawled out from under my pillow? I SCREAMED, my brother comes running in and sees me crying on the bed like a freak. He finally finds it behind the dresser and Mr. Centipede gets crushed and flushed down the toilet. SCARIEST moment of my life.

I had a centipede a foot long run over me once. True.

[wombat2u2004]

Ha ha!:D I have a tiny spider in my closet, never could get him, but he is tiny and few feet away from my bed.;) Would do no good to clean the closet as he probably relocated.

No, they don't relocate. He's hiding....watching....waiting. Waiting for you to fall into a deep sleep....and then....he will attack. :D

[Taz_Zoee]

How about the time I had just groomed Mikey out back and I was laying on my bed with my laptop and a CENTIPEDE crawled out from under my pillow? I SCREAMED, my brother comes running in and sees me crying on the bed like a freak. He finally finds it behind the dresser and Mr. Centipede gets crushed and flushed down the toilet. SCARIEST moment of my life.

I was getting ready to go to a concert YEARS ago and was barefoot in the bathroom and stepped and felt something weird right along the arch of my foot. When I looked down it was a centipede. I FREAKED out, probably about like you did. I was shaking and couldn't stop crying. I was actually probably a couple years younger than you at the time.

Well, I'm glad you got the darn spider. I really hate it when they are on the ceiling and you can't reach them. I'm always afraid they will come right over me then drop on me.

[Lady's Human]

Waking up with a scorpion on your sleeping bag is NOT a fun experience.....especially when your squad mate decides to help you and kill it with his boot....and it's in a sensitive area of the male anatomy.

[pomtzu]

I ran across this ugly critter a few weeks ago, hanging on the outside of the house. Thank goodness it was outside. :eek: After I took her pic, I sent her on her way to Spider Heaven. I decided to Google it to see what it was since it sure looked deadly to me at the time! Poor thing was an ordinary garden spider. Oh well - it should have been in the garden instead of hanging on the house - serves it right. That round thing to the left is a pod, so I guess I killed innocent babies too.
Yes - I know - the house needs a bath! :o

[Miss Z]

I've followed this thread with morbid curiosity... am I the only one who catches the offending creepy crawly in a cup/hand, and puts it outside? :p

[pomtzu]

I've followed this thread with morbid curiosity... am I the only one who catches the offending creepy crawly in a cup/hand, and puts it outside? :p

No. If I come across a Daddy Long Legs spider in the house, I'll pick him up by one of his long legs and toss him outside. But that's the only spider I can even remotely tolerate. I have an aversion to snakes and slugs too, but at least I don't find them in the house! :p

[Alysser]

The way I see it is, I don't come into their houses whether it be webs, burrows underground, hives, etc...they don't need to come in mine and if they're somehow stupid enough to get stuck in the house...well they're better off dead anyway. ;)

[Miss Z]

Alyssa, if I ever find myself reincarnated as a creepy crawly, rest assured I am staying the heck away from your house. :D :D

[wombat2u2004]

Waking up with a scorpion on your sleeping bag is NOT a fun experience.....especially when your squad mate decides to help you and kill it with his boot....and it's in a sensitive area of the male anatomy.

Did you try talking to it ???
I mean, ask it WHY it was in your sleeping bag ???
I would have done that. And if it didn't answer me, I'd squish it with my boot to. ;)

[Lizzie]

Like Miss Z., I like spiders. I ignore them no matter where they are unless they are really big and I'm afraid one of the cats might get an upset stomach from eating it, then I capture it and put it outside. I'm always rescuing spiders from sinks and tubs by putting a cloth down so they can crawl out and scuttle off.

However, I do have an aversion to the small black spiders that walk sideways like a crab because they will bite me and always cause a big lump that will last a week. I capture them if I can but will kill if I have to because they will harm me.

And, if faced with a black widow spider, or, even worse, a scorpion, I would be murderous.

[phesina]

I've followed this thread with morbid curiosity... am I the only one who catches the offending creepy crawly in a cup/hand, and puts it outside? :p

No, you aren't the only one. I live in a very small apartment, which is right next to the door to the outside and the bushes in front of the building. Any living thing I don't want inside with me somehow winds up walking onto a napkin or piece of cardboard or into a box and then being escorted outside.

Most of the little tiny ones, including spiders, I just kind of feel live and let live.. if they won't hurt me, I won't hurt them. Ants and little flying things that spread germs, though, get done away with.

The other day while I was taking a shower I saw a tiny little black caterpillary-looking thingy maybe an inch long at the top of the shower curtain by a ring hole. I considered what to do about him.. first thinking "You got up there, you get down now," ..or somehow either interrupting my shower or waiting until I finished it, then gently opening the shower curtain, getting out, finding some kind of container to edge him (her? or are they "its"?) off into.. then having him wait in it while I got enough cover-up on to take him outside and set him loose. But before I finished the shower, he disappeared.. he was no longer up where he had been and I didn't see him anywhere else around there.. so I'm hoping he got somewhere safe.

[Marigold2]

OMG you let him see you naked? :eek::eek::eek:

[phesina]

I didn't "let" him do anything... by the time I saw him, he'd already been scoping out the whole scene.

That must have been what happened.. He thought "Now I've seen everything!" and departed for wherever they go.

[Asiel]

If there's one thing that will have me running out of the house it's a spider. I don't care what the size is, I just freak if I spot one. I also never kill one - I just run and scream for someone else to come to my aid...

[tokolosh]

If there's one thing that will have me running out of the house it's a spider. I don't care what the size is, I just freak if I spot one. I also never kill one - I just run and scream for someone else to come to my aid...

Limpet used to take care of all spiders for me. Not that she ate them, but she'd do one pounce or pat and then spend another 20 minutes poking the remains and wondering why they weren't doing anything. My mom's horror was caterpillars and she used to whistle up the dog to deal with them.

I don't mind small spiders too much. If it can fit on a penny, I'll live with it. But here we get these great huge leggy things that could grip a baseball, with BODIES the size of a dime, coming up out of the pipes, and I don't care whether it's a fellow creature or not. Problem is, if it's big enough for me to swat, it's also big enough to leave an actual corpse - and that would upset me almost as much as the living object. I'm just unwilling to take responsibility for what my own cowardice drives me to do. I want it gone and the truth is I don't care if it dies for my peace of mind. But I don't want to have to look at the corpse.

My solution to all the angst is the vacuum cleaner :D

[wombat2u2004]

I killed 13 Funnel Webs one day on a building site whilst testing the soil at the bottom of a hole 8 feet deep x 4 feet wide x 6 feet long. They kept on dropping off the walls of the hole and I had to step on them with my boots.
My mate up top even had his truck started in case I was bit.....I'd have to get to a hospital within 20 minutes.....or one dead Wombat.

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[Marigold2]

Man is that thing ugly. Eek.