Today, I faced my severe phobia of spiders in order to remove a rather large one from my home. After 20 minutes of desperate struggling, it was finally taken care of. Relieved, I sat down and glanced across the hallway just in time to see a second, equally large spider strutting across the wall. FML
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Lepisma 38
I usually handle smaller spiders okay unless they surprise me, but these guys were big. This happened at about 1 am last night and my housemate was asleep, so a vacuum was not an option. I did use big spray. In fact, I nailed the first one three times and it shrugged it off like a BAMF (it was a Texan spider, after all). I actually already have a cat - two, in fact. They were very interested in the spiders, but I didn't want them to get bitten, so I didn't let them get close enough to attack. I finally got the first one in a cup with a lid and filled that sucker up with the bug spray. That worked! Then I saw the second one and about died, myself. It ended up under a cup eventually, too, and met Mr. Shoe. Thanks for the suggestions, though - they made me laugh!
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Pleonasm 36
Arachnidding me?
softrally 15
Time to call the exterminators.
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Comments (110)
thehuntress309 12
I'm not a violet person till I see a spider. Then I turn into Al Capone. "I want him dead, I want his family dead, and I want his house burned to the ground!"
brosiph_Joseph 8
I'll have you know a tiny spider crawled on my foot and I only cried for 20 minuets
chuksnwali 34
You make me believe in heroes again.
LuthienSilimaure 7
just use the vacuum hose..
Lylliaah 15
burn it all. to the ground!
LolaBunny07 10
I wanna hit the agree your life sucks button nut the count on it is 44444.... so I just can't. but I feel your pain.
noodlemantra 19
You can do it again OP! You already have the courage to do it!
anonymous198913 26
Time to move to a new country
ErinShannon 27
I'll never understand why people just don't kill the things. Get a shoe and smack that bitch. Problem solved. I guess some people don't for moral reason? Are spiders a big issues over seas? Cause here in Australia they are, so its either kill the things or live with them.
randybryant799 21
I hate to tell you this but your house probably has lots of spiders in it.