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What would you do? (Spiders involved)

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JoyS · 17/05/2008 22:57

Fairly certain I'm BU but don't really care.

We have a pretty nice 3-wheeler pushchair. About a week ago I was on my way out the door with it, stopped to put the seat back so DD could have a nap and noticed that a giant spider had NESTED underneath the seat liner, right next to DD's head.

When I say giant, I mean the size of a 10p coin. And nested as in, with eggs.

So I have bought a new pushchair (that's the unreasonable part) but what to do with the 3-wheeler?

A)Clean out spiders and sell it on mumsnet or similar (anybody want to buy a pushchair?)

B)Clean out spiders and continue to use it

C)Take it to the tip (would have to go in the car then)

Any opinions? Any advice?

OP posts:
seeker · 25/05/2008 08:31

Spiders are lucky.

Is anyone on here old enough to know who Bernard Levin was? Well, anyway, he was a famous radio/tv person a long time ago. He once didn't turn up for a live radio programme because th had seen a spider between himself and the door of his bedroom so was trapped in the room til someone came home and rescued him!

BumperliciousNeedsToSleep · 25/05/2008 08:48

I know it's criminal to buy a new push chair just because of a spider but I am with the OP and Beautiful, spiders make me want to throw up, if a spider has been somewhere I can't touch the place it has been and I also jump at bits of fluff. I dread having to face a spider coming between me and DD. I think the spider might win. Phobias aren't rational and nothing anyone says can change how you feel. I would love not to be afraid of spiders, it make my life a misery at times.

DontCallMeBaby · 25/05/2008 08:51

I would hoover the lot up - and this is EXACTLY why I've never bought a Dyson, being able to see all the general fluff and crap whirling about is unappealing enough, let alone spiders etc. Ugh.

mloo · 25/05/2008 17:21

dh just catches them in his hands & puts them outside (is that so hard?)
He's got dc handling medium size spiders, too, no big deal.

yawningmonster · 26/05/2008 10:05

i live in nz and used to live in auckland where you get these

my brother used to throw them at me for a laugh, have the hebbie jebbies even thinking of one in ds' gear

ladytophamhatt · 26/05/2008 10:25

If a spider survived going up you hoover you need a new one!

JoyS, what part of london do youlive in? is it south?

I have a lovely spider story to tell youif you want it, it'll piss on you 10P size tiddler spider

AlistairSim · 26/05/2008 10:38

You are insane.

But quite funny.

ALMummy · 26/05/2008 12:31

What the hell is it about spiders?

I would never kill one and actually feel quite affectionate towards them as a breed - killing flies etc, they seem very much to mind their own business.

BUT if I see one unexpectedly I am running, screaming for the hills.

Actually this thread has made me feel sick as it had made me recall a giant, scuttling spider suddenly being snapped up and chewed up with gusto by my minature schnauzer a couple of weeks ago.

I have just realised that I am grinding my teeth and my face is all screwed up horror just typing this post. eurrrrrrrrgggghhhhh!!!!!!

Dolorescat · 26/05/2008 12:56

I got a spider out of the bath the other day to show to ds as I thought it would help to prevent him being afraid of them in years to come. he didn't look remotely interested in the poor thing so I put it on the floor to go its own sweet way and then I stood on it by mistake. felt really guilty. No more trying to be a hippy for me.

PuppyMonkey · 26/05/2008 13:51

I would have bought a new pushchair AND moved house if this had happened to me...

DD1 saw one drop on a towel after she came out the shower the other day. The towel's STILL on the floor because we can't bear to go in a see if spidy is still there. DP been away all weekend u see, otherwise he would have dispatched it.

Why to the farking things always come out when your dp is away???????

BEAUTlFUL · 26/05/2008 14:49

Ladytophamhatt, I want to hear your spider story!

My Mum is terrified of spiders, and used to live in an infested old house, when my Dad was working away a lot. One night there was a monster on the sitting-room carpet, so she took her glasses off (to reduce the eight pointy legs to a less scary, vague black blur) and dropped a glass bowl over the spider like a cage, thinking she'd find someone to throw the spider away in the morning.

The bowl was huge, thick, and very heavy. The spider was completely trapped inside it.

She went down in the morning and the bowl was still in position but the spider had vanished. [shudder, squirm, cringe]

They are Evil, and Must be Stopped.

Alambil · 26/05/2008 15:00

Rainy you've just made me literally ROFL in this thread!!

ladytophamhatt · 26/05/2008 17:14

just for you BEAUTlFUL....

We were having a new kitchen fitted at our old flat (9 yrs ago now) and had all the flat pack boxes everywhere.
Ds1 was just a tiny baby then and I was rushing about with my PFB through the maze of boxes and I kept seeing this thing on the floor.
It looked like someone had screwed up/knotted a few metres of cotton thread. I kept seeing it all day and finally got around to bending down to pick it up.

It was teh most enormas spider I have ever seen. Already dead, but absolutley massive.

I stood there with my chin on the floor thinking there no way this is a native spider, we don't get spiders this big in England so where the fudge had it come from.

I unravelled it and laid it out on a peice of paper. It was 5.25 inches from its front foot(do spiders have feet??) to its back foot and 5 inches across.

Ok....now Go and get a tape measure and imagine that as a laid out spider.

See what I mean about massive??

Anyway I phoned teh natural history museum because it was so big, I wanted to know what type of spider it was and where on earth it coudl have come from...and why it was in my flat.
It was called a Cardinal Spider.
The chap I spoke to was really quite impressed with my find because the record for one previously found was about 5.75 inches so mine was really quite a whopper!

I expected him to say they'll from Bolivia/uzbekistan/somewhere else that has big spiders and prob got caught up in the boxes that out kitchen was packed in when it was shipped from wherever.

Oh no.

Its a Native British spider.

They like old houses, with los of nooks and crannys and generally come out in the autumn or something in damp musty weather.

Our flat was the ground floor of a huge victorian house...

I have a photo of it somewhere, I took it with my hand next to compare the size....I might try and find it.

Alambil · 26/05/2008 17:25

wow that's so cool!!

lollipopmother · 26/05/2008 17:42

Oh God I really hate spiders, I wish I didn't but they really make me feel ill. I'm trying to get over it but I know I never will. I won't kill spiders unless they are massive though, if they won't fit in a pint glass then that's when they get sqaushed with the thesaurus i'm afraid. If a spider can fit in the glass then I'll catch it and throw it out, but my heart races, I feel sick as a dog and it takes me ages to actually do it.

That link of the spider was totoally uncalled for, I will undoubtedly have nightmares tonight!

Did the OP ever say whether it was the body that was a 10p or the full leg span, because I wouldn't be going to close to a body the size of a 10p but if it's leg span then even I can deal with that!

RedFraggle · 26/05/2008 19:39

Gah - stop being so daft. Pick it up and put it outside. Put a pair of marigolds on if you must. It's only a spider!

I actually quite like them...

cadelaide · 26/05/2008 19:42

hoovering spiders is cruel

BEAUTlFUL · 26/05/2008 21:03

"Its a Native British spider."

STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT! Would it have killed you to lie to us and say, reassuringly, "They told me it's from New Zealand and recently rang me back to say it's now completely extinct"??

"They like old houses, with los of nooks and crannys"

ARGH! I live in an old house with noks and crannies everywhere! Well, I did, till I read that. I'm ringing the nearest Barrett Homes office the minute they open tomorrow morning.

OMG.

I don't know why I'm doing this to myself, but... yeah, try to find that photo.

PictureThis · 26/05/2008 21:21

LTH I have seen a couple of those spiders. I hate spiders and I'm sure my phobia comes from seeing one when I was younger. We were watching Live Aid (this event is burned into my memory) and this mahuusive spider made it's way across the floor. I screamed, someone stood on it and it made a kind of 'crunching' noise. bleurghhh.

PictureThis · 26/05/2008 21:22

oh and OP UANBU in my book.

ladytophamhatt · 26/05/2008 21:35

I've found the photo, I've had to take a photo of the photo(its was pre-digital camera) so will download it and put in on my profile.

Might take a while as I have to download using DHs logging.

Be back ASAP.

cheesesarnie · 26/05/2008 21:39

bleurgh.wish hadnt read thread.i would have put buggy outside till someone else could 'sort it'.ooh im all itchy now

BEAUTlFUL · 26/05/2008 22:01

Ladytophamhatt, I just read your profile to see if you'd uploaded the monster pic yet. Thankfully, you hadn't. But what cute boys! And you are the hotness!

ladytophamhatt · 27/05/2008 07:37

spidey photo there now.

it hasn't taken me all night though

Finally put some new photos of ds4 up too.

2sugars · 27/05/2008 07:44

Have you got a shed/garage, where you could bung the pushchair till the babies 'despatch'? I'd be loathe to buy a new one, but it doesn't help that you need to use it in the meantime.

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