to insist that DH removes this spider?

[AKMD]

There is an enormous, thick-bodied, hairy-legged spider in our living room. It has been crouching evilly under the radiator for 2 days. I have pointed it out to DH but nothing has been done.

WIBU to insist that he removes it when he gets home this evening? I cannot use the sofa or draw the curtians until it is gone and I'd prefer to know that it was outside rather than under the sofa cushions.

GAFG

I'll get rid of it for you I like a good spider, but you'll have to my airfare. Sorry, we're currently skint.

Pick it up? Aye right then!

I've run out into the street wearing nowt but a towel and shampoo when a monster spider dropped in front of me in the shower.

My neighbour kindly came to my rescue; and was horrified to find that the pint glass they were using to capture it was too small!

Yikes I'd not have got a wink of sleep till I knew it was gone.

The big hairy buggers used to wait till DH was on nights to crawl out onto the skirting boards and wink at me with all 8 beady eyes when I was barefoot and in my Jim jams

I used to dyson them with the extra long tube and leave it running till I could see bits of Boris flying round the canister

I swear the fucking things used to hang on to wherever they were sitting for a few seconds

We get some really big ones as we live near fields and I kid you not, sometimes they are so big there is no way a pint glass would do.

DP tends to manage if I am not about, unfortunately he throws the spider AND whatever he caught it in out the window. I have no glasses left and I was confused to find a airwick candle in the garden once.

Or it will sit there under a cup or glass awaiting my return.

I am scared of birds OP so I know what you mean, when a eagle small starling chick got into our bathroom I screamed so loud that DP kicked the door in! Then he ridiculed me for years weeks.

I feel sick and am shuddering thinking about it and I've been really trying to adjust my disgust for spiders to avoid giving my kids the same hang-up as me. YANBU. What is wrong with expecting someone who loves you and married you to help you out with something you find horrible. It doesn't mean you wouldn't find a way of dealing with it yourself if you needed to but one of the lovely things about marriage is that you help each other out with silly things for no reason other than love. I dealt with spiders on my own for a decade and more before marrying dh and I so appreciate him doing spider removal for me. And he knows it.

Arachnophobia is no joke. DH has it, the spider-removal jobs around here are done by me the staff.

I have killed hundreds of spiders on request. I am in the clear if God is not a spider

Mwaahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

DH just went to sit down on his manly beanbag and BOO! It was lurking right there! Spider has been safely removed to the garden via a tupperware box. Hehehe.

A tarantula ran out on me whilst I was vax mopping the kitchen today, I steamed the bastard to death!!

Thankfully I'm currently beastie free.

As far as I'm concerned, they can have the whole of the great outdoors, I get the inside of my house. I think that's pretty fair, no?

I have ironed/flattened a spider to death before - kudos to you firsttimer!

We always name our spiders.

DH tried to exert some positive spin on the DCs wrt spiders. He called every single one of them affectionately "Incy" and said "all spiders were his friends". Well it did work to sort of quell DCs' fear of spiders but sometimes my 5 year old DD "regresses" and freaks out over one of those very thin-legged (almost thin as hair strands), long-legged spiders with tiny bodies - I have no idea what they are called but those don't freak me out at all - it's the very black fat ones with fat long legs that sort of make my skin crawl a little when I see them. My eldest DD who is 9 is no longer freaking out over them that much, but nowhere near daring to catch them in a container. She'll learn

My Mum made me deal with a huge fat hairy spider on her bedroom ceiling once when my Dad was away. I must have been about 9! Urgh.

chinley do you have a row of mouldering glasses in your garden?!

DH has yet to wash the tupperware box

chinley

Going to be inspecting all my cups & glasses from now on!