Massive spider in lounge, shut the door and sealed with masking tape last night,now what?

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What do I do now? Never enter the lounge again?

Some of the comments on here have pissed me right off! How can anyone on here judge someone’s phobia? Just because you think it’s ridiculous doesn’t mean that everyone can just “get over it”. Should people with a fear of heights just climb up the tallest ladder they can find? People with a fear of flying just need to get on a plane and shut up? I’m also claustrophobic so maybe I’ll get someone to lock me in the cupboard under the stairs and I’ll realise that it’s fine? Phobias can be irrational but to the person suffering they are very real so piss off with all your judgement.

I have a massive phobia of spiders, can’t even look at them on tv. I’m lucky that I have a patient husband who doesn’t mind picking them up and getting them back outside.

Also op as cruel as it is I find bug spray or hairspray will keep them still for enough time for you to go get a hoover or something. ❤️

I use the handheld hoover then I stuff the end with kitchen roll or similar then I leave it outside until husband comes home to empty it! I know I sound totally batshit crazy 😂

When you you say you haven’t seen a bigger one in the UK do you mean it’s like a topical spider or something?

My Auntie came home from holiday once to find that my cousin (who was in his 20s) had taped the end of the hoover up. When she asked why he said he'd hoovered up a spider and was scared it would crawl back out
He's mega intelligent, very logical and no nonsense usually. But he's also terrified of spiders.

I suppose it is probably 14 pages too late to point out that any living room is going to have multiple gaps where a spider can get out and in, so taping up the door is going to be completely pointless.

Which country do you live in?
Is this a poisonous tarantula?
Call.the Police

Don't kill.it. You will be in trouble with the Wokes. Spiders have. Right too.
Call.the RSPCA.

I find a quick squirt of insecticide down the hose deals with that problem.

You need to find a kind man. My brother used to keep a plastic cup and old beer mat in his room ready to rescue me from any monsters that appeared in the house. My cat used to eat them and now my husband deals with them. We used to get huge ones in our old flat.

Or even tropical? Mind you, a topical spider would be very interesting!

I feel your pain, I have done exactly the same years ago. Left a note on the door and my daughter's then boyfriend got rid of it humanely,

i’ll have it, it can sort out the sodding flies in my house - want me to pop over?!

I feel your pain. You need Simeon to help. I once got a delivery driver to come in and catch a spider for me!😱It’s weird I was more scared of the spider than the unknown adult male I let into my house!🫣He was so nice and understanding and helpful. I was lucky, he could’ve been a mad axe man! 😂Prob best not to do this. 🍀( hubby and mum were raging at me 😭)

Not Simeon!!! 🤣🤣🤣I’m not recommending a specific individual! Although I may be onto something with that! 🤔🤪It should’ve said ‘someone’.

I once approached a total stranger in the swimming pool car park and asked him to take a snail off my windscreen. Was parked under a willow tree, so I guess the snail fell, or jumped 🤔and landed on my car.

I'm freaked out by slugs, but not fond of snails either.

The man removed the snail, while staring at me warily the whole time. I could only assume he thought I was either madly keen on him and had an unusual chat-up strategy, or bonkers, or was trying to lure him in and kidnap him in a Buffalo Bill from Silence of the Lambs manner, albeit in a Volvo estate not a van... I did not care: snail-away, result! 😃

Wonder if the spider gone yet

Chair and whip? Or that crystal Sam used inLord of the Rings. Or fire? Yes, lots of fire.

Great response ! I can suck them with the hoover on long extension,but then I lock the vac in the garage for husband dearest to empty out later!!😂