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Original poster

to ask DH to come home on time...

79 replies

mistressploppy · 20/05/2010 13:43

Because there is a massive spider in the bath?

DS's bathtime is around 6pm and DH is usually home by then but he knows I'm not normally bothered if he's late....

I know I should stop being a tit and just deal with it but it's HUGE, honestly....eeep

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RunawayWife · 20/05/2010 13:49

kettle of boiling water and presto no more spider

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mistressploppy · 20/05/2010 13:53

I should have known you'd have the answer, Wifey! What a good idea; I'd heard that if you wash them down the plughole they can climb back up again, so hot water sounds like a terrific scheme!

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ChippingIn · 20/05/2010 13:56

Yes - stop being a tit and deal with it

It is a spider (which is a small thing) - you are a human (which is a large thing) - deal with it, glass and cardboard if you must....

However, if you are in the UK it's not even 2pm yet another 4 hours till bedtime, the spider will have probably moved by then, if not, move him yourself or put kiddo to bed without a bath - he'll live through it!!

RunawayWife - karma is all I can say to that....

pedrothellama · 20/05/2010 13:58

Has the spider used up all the hot water and your favourite bubble bath

[pictures spider in shower cap]

Vacuum cleaner - that's the way to deal with

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mistressploppy · 20/05/2010 14:05

Pedro - usually I do hoover them up but I then worry that they will colonise the bag

at spider in shower cap! Scrubbing his back and all his little armpits!

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pedrothellama · 20/05/2010 14:13

Colonise? Like set up a civilisation. Don't worry that won't happen.

They might breed like merry hell though

hippopo · 20/05/2010 14:21

agree with you chippingin

I know some people will say it is only a spider has no feelings ect but still feel a and [shocked] at pouring boiling water on it.

My DH is scared of spiders and it is always me that picks them up and puts them outside which I don't mind but if he had his way he would stamp on it or whack it with a paper til dead. I think they are very useful as they eat flies which are a pain and carry disease.

PS am 33 weeks pregnant and the thought of anything at all being hurt or killed overly upsets me. Read recently that amature boxer was practicing on cows and it seriously upset me for a week.

Sorry for rambling x

honeybe · 20/05/2010 14:24

Don't kill spiders - very very bad luck (and they eat the flies) just let them be

FakePlasticTrees · 20/05/2010 14:32

if you leave it until 6pm it's bound to have moved, but you might not see where too and your DH might not find it before bedtime. So you'll have to lie in bed knowing there's a spider in your house sneaking about, just waiting for an oppurtunity to scuttle over your hand or bare feet...

or your face.

RunawayWife · 20/05/2010 14:42

/goes to put kettle on......

pedrothellama · 20/05/2010 14:44

Runawaywife

To make tea?. Oooh you are a love, white with one please.

harleyd · 20/05/2010 14:44

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RunawayWife · 20/05/2010 14:46

Oh get over yourself its a bloody spider not a child.

Kathyjelly · 20/05/2010 14:48

Chuck a tea towel over it and then throw it out the window. Or hoover it if you're feeling mean.

nikki1978 · 20/05/2010 14:49

I hate spiders but I would NEVER kill one and think it is horrible. Just because we have some weird irrational fear of them why should they suffer?

I always ask DH to put them outside and he always kills them. Once he caught me trying to fish a drowning one out of the loo he had thrown it in

nikki1978 · 20/05/2010 14:50

It is another spiders child though runawaywife

harleyd · 20/05/2010 14:50

k i apologise for calling you a wanker, uncalled for
but it winds me up! seriously!

pedrothellama · 20/05/2010 14:51

Make a ladder out of toilet roll. Then again I'm not scared of spiders - I just pick them up and throw them out of the window.

If there was a snake in my bath it would be a different story. I would be crying like a little girl with firemen trying to tempt me off the roof with wine and chocolates!

OrmRenewed · 20/05/2010 14:52

Boiling water ?

No. How horrible.

RunawayWife · 20/05/2010 14:54

Are you brave enough to do the glass and card to remove it?

If not the hoover, it will now spawn in there I promise,

If you flush it is could climb back up and come out of the overflow.

I am very bad with spiders and have to admit that (unless DP is quick and gets it outside) they have a very short life expectancy in my home and yes boiling water has been used before.

I can (and have) thrown 6ft drunk rugby players out of a put (back in the day when I managed one) but I am reduced to tears and a wreck by a spider, I blame very traumatic childhood experience.
My grown up brain says it is a little thing that can not hurt me, my scared shitless brain says get the hoover/shoe/water....

OldMacEIEIO · 20/05/2010 14:56

I know an old lady who swallowed a spider

no...wait...I've already done this one in another thread

ShadeofViolet · 20/05/2010 14:58

Put a towel in the bath, that will give it something to climb out on.

Dont kill them - very bad luck.

RunawayWife · 20/05/2010 14:59

I can deal with anything else, mice, rats, snakes, bugs, just not spiders.....

However I have tried really really hard to never let my children see how terrified I am.

Don't worry about calling me a wanker, I reported it!

BosomForAPillow · 20/05/2010 14:59

I read the second post as "pesto" instead of hey presto...Was thinking there was some new pesto-related method of getting rid of spiders that I didn't know about!

RunawayWife · 20/05/2010 15:11

Covering it in pesto might work too