to ask DH to come home on time...

[mistressploppy]

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

I do not want to pass on my fear to my sons, I want to train them to remove the spiders.... sadly they are useless at this...

Am PMSL at this thread, in an ironic sort of way.

While in the UK I would have pleaded (pled?) for the life of the spider - spiders are our friends, they eat wasps and flies and mozzies, they are fab and if you kill one, not only will you have 7 years bad luck but all its friends and relations will come to the funeral.

NOW however, all that has changed - here in Oz the bastards can kill you, so they have to die. (only the killer ones of course, the easily-identifiable non-killers get shoved outside but I no longer dare pick them up by hand, it's glass and cardboard now).

Boiling water - well, haven't gone that far yet but the outside toys get hosed every now and then to remove redbacks from the crevices - if they don't drown immediately they get stamped on.

OldMac - are you waiting for a 'bird' thread next?

Well, I don't think killing something that can't hurt you - and killing it in a particularly horrible way is something that anyone should do. And certainly something that no parent should let a child see them doing.

,seeker wishes there was a po faced emoticon - shou would use it often>

Just run the tap and poor a jug of water over it, itl curl up and go down the plug hole. Or usse hot water and i think it curls up and dies - not sure but thats what i do. then leave the plug in every time you have emptied the bath for at least a week lol

so whats the diffrence between pooring boiling water over a spider and throwing it out of the window, they dont fly, they are still going to die either way

no, they don't die if you chuck them out the window. They spread their legs out and rotate downwards slowly - i have seen them...

I also think i caught a tiny dissapearing voice saying "Bastaaaaaaaaards"

PMSL @ "Bastaaaaaaaaards"

a spider is not heavy enough to die falling out of a window. Unless it lands exactly where something very heavy goes over it a second later.

love the teeny little voice...

Scoop them up in a dust pan and take them outside. Problem solved. Or if you don't want to get that close, shut the bathroom door and wait for dp to come home. But don't kill a harmless creature just because you don;t like it.

We like spiders in our house, he would just get moved to somewhere more comfortable/safe.

None of the spiders here are dangerous are they?

Right, panic over, DH has come home and removed the offending arachnid (oot the windae)

We have Black Widows in the basement. I have closed the door firmly and placed a bookcase in front of it.

DH wants to use it for storage ffs.

I can't tell the difference, tbh. We have inane conversations which start something like 'is it the ones with red or white hourglass shapes on that will kill you?' and I never ever want to ask 'Which one have you seen and Where Is It?' in a sort of strangled 'please don't tell me, I don't want to know' voice.

My brother, who was born in Australia, reminisces about trapdoor spiders!

mistressploppy

thankyou for sparing me

(on behalf of spider in bath)

So many Buddhist

Glad it got sorted Ploppy

Hairspray is also good on spiders, well not for the spider obviously, or a nice size 9 shoe

Its only a bloody spider

I have been following this thread with interest to see how the spider saga turned out

Yesterday there was a HUGE spider (I placed a mug over it and it still was coming out the sides ) in the shower and I removed it to the garden....only because the "im such a hard man and will call you love" british gas idiot wouldnt go in there when there was a spider...he screamed like a little girl

Still dont think i shouldve removed it though...he gets muddy footprints on the carpet and spills coffee everywhere and doesnt clean it up....so I should leave the spider? right?

Very glad the spider still lives.

Runawaywife - I might be able to claim to be a Buddhist, if it weren't for the fact that I kill mosquitoes with glee Now they really are evil little nasty bloodsucking wastes of space. And they make an annoying high pitched whine in your ears at the same time. What's not to kill?

ok got up to speed, so is it ok to pour boiling water on the spider if you are going to eat it afterwards?

Then it could go in dh's tea for not getting home in time to evict the spider that now has ended up with a four page thread?

oops that made no sense at all, as i namechanged to start a food thread - rofl