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To object to my house being used as a hotel?

48 replies

startwig1982 · 16/08/2015 23:04

George, our resident large spider, has been merrily living under ds's shelves for the last few months. I don't mind him, he doesn't mind us.
He went missing this last week, I assume on holiday, which I'm a bit annoyed about him not mentioning.
Anyway, he's now back but appears to have brought numerous friends with him to stay! I found one huge one in the kitchen sink doing who knows what, and another in our bedroom trying to take over. AIBU to think it's not on a) to disappear without telling us, and b) to bring friends home to stay?

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CarlaJones · 17/08/2015 00:26

He sounds like a cocklodger

Sallyhasleftthebuilding · 17/08/2015 00:34

Some years a go a large specimen took up residence in the corner of my bedroom. One morning some weeks later, i found him asleep next to me in bed.... its a short leap from book shelf to bed. I never knew his name he took a long flight from an open window, never to be seen again.

pigsDOfly · 17/08/2015 00:39

Creepy bastards are everywhere and I'm too soft hearted to put them outside so tend to banish them to the spare room.

Wouldn't mind but they never seem to eat any of the million flies that are also everywhere at the moment. What are they living on?

Don't know how long spiders live but where I used to live we had a massive one living in our downstairs loo for months; Fred he was called. Eventually evicted him when I found him making his way up the stairs. I assume he was looking for more comfortable accommodation and there was no way I was having him creeping into bed with me in the middle of the night.

StuckInSuburbia · 17/08/2015 00:40

Ohh sally I bet he'd been doing that for ages. Probably forgot to set his spider alarm so he could sneak back to his corner before you woke up.

I can just picture his loving caress of your cheek before he whispered "until tonight my darling"

Fatmomma99 · 17/08/2015 00:43

It's not just your home.. It's George's too. You need to accept responsibility for that and give him his own space and right to privacy.

Sallyhasleftthebuilding · 17/08/2015 00:52

Stuckin ... i only knew he was there because i woke (half asleep) in the night with a tickle on mouth, and in the morning realised what it was ... dirty bastard ... councelling hasnt helped Confused

frankie001 · 17/08/2015 00:59

You do know that any money you find tucked behind the sofa is from spiders paying rent? They're shy about it.

cocobean2805 · 17/08/2015 01:11

you do know that any money you find tucked behind the sofa is from spiders paying rent? They're shy about it.

This makes so much sense.

Atenco · 17/08/2015 03:23

I'm jealous, I just realised I don't have any spiders in my house, I think the cats must have exterminated them. I feel like going spider hunting to bring one home.

SniffsAndSneezes · 17/08/2015 06:20

Oh my God in heaven...

You're all bonkers.

Anything with more than four legs and fewer than two needs to GTFO of my home, pronto.

Original poster
startwig1982 · 17/08/2015 07:44

George is fairly nocturnal so he's retreated back under the shelves this morning. I'll have a word with him later and explain that I've evicted his friends. just hoping no more turn up

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rembrandtsrockchick · 17/08/2015 07:54

Matilda lives under the top top of the blind in the galley window...she is huge and not to be messed with. Charlotte lives in the shower stall and is currently hatching her babies. Not quite so huge as Matilda but just as stroppy.

BTW, have any of you watched spider sex? It's quite an education...lots and lots of foreplay! There might be a few men who could learn something from the male spider's sexual technique.

Sallyhasleftthebuilding · 17/08/2015 08:31

I'm saying nothing Blush

Iliveinalighthousewiththeghost · 17/08/2015 11:09

Aww. George wanted to introduce all his friends to you. Grin
Just like in the book
AAAGGGHHHHHH Spider.

HedgehogAtHome · 17/08/2015 11:17

Love the name! Very royal for a spider.

We've got the unimaginably named Boris staying at the moment. He chases the cats and the dog. DH shudders every time we see him, but he keeps flies out and given I like my windows open all day I feel this is a fair trade for his room and board.

Leave chocolates on his web with a note explaining about his pals.

Katie2001 · 17/08/2015 11:20

This thread is hilarious. I've got spiders hanging about in my place too, just the spindly ones though, so they are OK. I'm more annoyed about the slug which comes out at night and trails round my living room, but much searching hasn't revealed its daytime home.

HazelBite · 17/08/2015 11:31

Our house is spider lodge (much to the distress of my son's gf, who lives here).

Last weekend there was a big black spider above my bed, DIL tried to get a glass to put over him, and put him out but we couldn't find one large enough to fit over him without amputating his many legs.
He must have got wind of our plan of eviction because when we got back upstairs he had gone.

I like spiders they catch flies!

pigsDOfly · 17/08/2015 13:21

Christ, that's nasty. I have no problem with spiders but that has made me really shiver.

I'd have to move house if I found that anywhere in my home.

One of my dds is going to Australia for several months soon Shock

paddypants13 · 17/08/2015 13:34

DH's family had the travel spider when DH was little. He travelled all the way from oop North to Cornwall and back. Never offered a penny for petrol.

I think you need to set some ground rules about friends OP. I know school's out for summer but your home is not a doss house for bored spiders. They can be entitled ba***s. I make DH evice them or set Paddycat on them.

CrazyCatLady13 · 17/08/2015 18:29

If a house spider stays put, it's a female. The male house spiders go from web to web of any female they find (until they die or get eaten) so you'll have to rename him Georgina!

My resident spider lives in the bathroom. She moved in as a tiny spiderling a couple of years ago and is a fair size now. We called her Sally.

Unfortunately I have a couple of arachnophobics in my family so I have to warn them about her in case she startles them!

Iliveinalighthousewiththeghost · 17/08/2015 18:36

Just clicked on Spider Story.
Those baby spiders are so cute.
Congratulations to the proud mummy spider

SchwarzwalderKirschtorte · 17/08/2015 21:09

My daughter was reading on the settee. I sat opposite and idly watched a spider drop from the ceiling to around eye height and wave at her. Friendly like. He was a bruiser and was on the large side. Like an affectionate puppy.

So she screamed the house down and lay there sobbing to get rid of it while I pissed myself laughing poor spidey was only being friendly! Wink

I did put it outside but reminded her that her window was open and spiders can climb... She's 19 btw not a small child Smile

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