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AIBU?

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Original poster

in thinking this is just inconsiderate, bloody minded and plain rude?

66 replies

LifeIsButtercream · 21/06/2011 17:13

There is a spider in my kitchen. I have given it a very polite talking to, explaining in detail why I would really like it to move on, that it has outstayed it's welcome and it should really seek alternate accommodation. It is preventing me from accessing my bin and has not sought appropriate planning permission for it's large web.

It has refused point-blank to move. I think it has identified me as a soft-touch and is planning to leech free accommodation off me for the forseable future just because it knows that I am too kindhearted to hoover it up and too scared to touch it.

Eight-legged little fucker

AIBU?

OP posts:
JoySzasz · 21/06/2011 18:14

I tend to snatch them up with wet wipes...make it in to a small ball and place it in the bin.

HopeEternal · 21/06/2011 20:01

I have an understanding with the spiders in my house. If they stay away from me, I stay away from them.

If they approach too close to me I have hysterics. Scares them away every time.

Grin
carlywurly · 21/06/2011 20:07

I used to take a live and let live approach with spiders. Unless they were truly massive ones, whereby I took the Dyson to them.

Finding a huge nest of baby spiders stuck all over my shoulders and back after picking up a handbag from my bedroom floor changed my mind. Shudder.

Deesus · 21/06/2011 20:12

Am not so bad now but I used to live in a block of flats. Massive spider was in my hall so I couldn't get past it to get to my living room (as obviously it would've leaped at me and attacked Wink). Solution - walk down two flights of stairs until I found a strange man that was not scared of spiders to come and remove it. Blush

smartyparts · 21/06/2011 20:14

I have got spiders' nests in my dining room and d/stairs loo, no-one is allowed to touch them.

PaintedToenails · 21/06/2011 20:28

I agree with Deesus, when a spider is on the wall, regardless of how long it has been sat there, the minute you attempt to sneak past it to gather the necessary equipment for the Arachnoid Genocide, it will INSTANTLY leap off the wall in full attack mode and go for your throat with it's horrible, evil Spider-Fangs.

I get those massive Tegenaria on my living room wall occasionally...there is no way in Holy Hell I am ever going near one of those, irrespective of protective clothing/body armour! I have one of those pads on a stick that you are supposed to put Flash wipes on to clean your floor, they are rubbish for cleaning floors but really make quite excellent Spider Smooshers! I have the occasional mouse take up residence in m kitchen and I would rather have those than the spiders anyday......mind you, rationally asking them to vacate the premesis doesn't seem to work either....

SuePurblybilt · 21/06/2011 20:31

Oh fgs, don't kill it. Bloody spider racialists.

Original poster
LifeIsButtercream · 21/06/2011 20:58

Oh why oh why oh why did I just Google Tegenaria? eek!

Don't worry spider-lovers, I am a secret lover of all things creepy crawly, I just happen to be scared of spiders, I would never intentionally harm one, but I would prefer that they decide to inhabit somewhere else other than my home. I attempt to humanely capture and release them where possible! And ignore where not..........

OP posts:
WorzselMummage · 21/06/2011 21:02

Just leave it alone. It'll go on it's merry way without bothering you a jot.

peeriebear · 21/06/2011 21:05

I LOVE SPIDERS and it makes me sad to think of all you people gaily crushing their little bodies. They are doing us all a great service ridding the world of millions of dirty irritating flies. Even wasps are sometimes dispatched by the bigger fellas! and I once saw a wasp snatch a Peacock butterfly out of the air and bite its wings off. It then landed and started feasting on the still-living butterfly before its detached wings had finished spiralling sadly to the ground.

ChantingAsISpeak · 21/06/2011 21:14

YADNBU it makes me shudder just thinking about your traumatic situation. I say run away, move house if need be - it's the only way. Wink

I had to climb, ninja style, through the bath and leap through the bathroom door when I was cornered by one of these evil eightlegged bastards, I was 'otherwise occupied' when it pounced from behind the skirting board.

biological · 21/06/2011 21:31

get one of these

good for wasps too

cuttingpicassostoenails · 21/06/2011 21:31

Have you ever seen spider sex?

Believe me when I tell you that male spiders have a lot to teach the human male about foreplay.

Toenails...who like spiders.

SuePurblybilt · 21/06/2011 21:35

I have seen spider sex only today cutting, I'm glad you asked Grin. DD is obsessed with a wildlife programme and we have to watch a recorded episode, including tarantula shagging, almost daily.
She told me very solemnly that the male spider had to present his bulbs to the female and when they had mated he would die Hmm

MittzyTheVixen · 21/06/2011 21:37

I watched two little yellow beetles copulating on Friday, they were at it for hours. Have yet to enjoy the joy of spider sex though.

My DD held a Tarantula on Sunday. And a giant millipede, cockroach, scorpion and something I can't remember the name of Smile

MittzyTheVixen · 21/06/2011 21:38

Having been single for a while, I think if a male showed me his bulbs, he would die after I had finished with him.............

SuePurblybilt · 21/06/2011 21:42

Feck alone know what the bulbs are. DD seems to and as she is 4 I am not going to question it too much in case she makes me explain mating. Again.

stretch · 21/06/2011 21:43

I hate spiders (have killed plenty)

Couple of years ago I noticed a huge web behind my curtain, decided to keep an eye on it for a while before obliterating it. I heard this faint screaming/squealing, was ever so odd, looked and it was a wasp that had flew into the web. It carried on squealing until the spider bound it up and I assume killed it. It was amazing. Didn't have the heart to kill it after that, DP took it to the garden.

I have an agreement with the spiders that upstairs ones get squished (sorry, but those statistics about them coming into your mouth at night...blergh!) but downstairs ones get put in the garden near the tomatoes!

ThisisaSignofthetimes · 21/06/2011 21:48

Get cat, cat plays/eats spiders, the cat has to deal with the guilt and possible revenge attack from other enraged spiders.

winnybella · 21/06/2011 23:49

My cat jumps 4 feet into air when confronted with a spider Hmm

winnybella · 21/06/2011 23:50

Out of fear, that is. Useless.

ThisisaSignofthetimes · 21/06/2011 23:53

My cat used to love playing with them. it was a bit disconcerting to see their legs wriggling around in his mouth mind you, but hey I didn't have to deal with the omg I've killed a living creature.

sharbie · 22/06/2011 00:02

is it a big hairy one op?????

are they back?

TwoIfBySea · 22/06/2011 00:12

My female cat eats spiders and leaves the legs too. I'm guessing the legs aren't too tasty but then again would the rest of them?

TwoIfBySea · 22/06/2011 00:12

My female cat eats spiders and leaves the legs too. I'm guessing the legs aren't too tasty but then again would the rest of them?