Tuesday, May 6, 2008
The perfect storm for killing a spider.
1. I’m home alone.
2. I’m in a hurry to leave–meeting someone outside.
3. The spider isn’t huge. Not small, but not big.
4. It’s in the hallway, where the first shock of seeing it sends me leaping into the nearest room, which was right at hand.
5. A shoe is lying at my feet. A shoe that DOES NOT belong to me.
6. The spider is in the perfect squishing spot—against the wall but on the floor.
I have a huge phobia of spiders. Huge. I’ve been known to pack up the kids (when they were small) and leave the house because there was a spider inside. As soon as the kids were old enough to kill spiders for me, they were. I cannot express how much I hate spiders. I’m considering deleting this post right now because it’s making me think about spiders for so long.
I killed a spider today.
I can relate. Years ago Thor was out of town working and I saw the most hideous LARGE FREAKING spider on my curtain. I lived waaay out of town, but still called my friend’s husband and asked him to drive TWENTY MINUTES to my house so he could find, capture then KILL the monster. It was something I had never seen in my life, UGLY clear yellow and like a scorpion with out a tail. It would morph it’s colour as it walk across whatever, and I swear it gave me nightmares for a week. It was a Vinegaroon(sp), a nasty nasty thing.
I was embarrassed to asked, but frankly I would have sold the house before I stayed in it knowing that thing lived.
Holy cow. What a nightmare! We would get huge, HUGE spiders in WA. So far I’ve only seen very small ones here (compared to up there).
s’mee, that’s a horrible story!!
Susan, Hooray for dead spiders!
I have had the perimeter of the house sprayed since we moved up here and the first summer I saw some ENORMOUS spider in our basement- voila, no more spiders. Whew.
Two words…jumping.spiders. ‘Nuff said.
We had a friend(male) who would shriek like a little girl and climb on furniture when he saw a spider. From him I learned that you can freeze almost any spider with a can of good old aerosol hairspray. He had cans stashed all over the house.
s’mee, we had a big ugly thing like that outside our front door once, and when someone accidentally stepped on it(not me) it left a huge nasty smear. ugh, gives me the shivers just remembering it…
Spiders totally wig me out. In college there was one on my shower curtain and you can’t squish something against a shower curtain, so I picked up the bath rug and wacked at it until it fell down (along with the shower curtain and rod) then I smooshed it with the tissue box. My roommates thought I was under attack with all the screaming and the clammering of the shower curtain rod hitting the floor.
Hate spiders.
Oh yeah, hairspray works. Any bug spray works really well too.
In the shower I would have aimed the spray at it and washed it down the drain. Then never showered again.
When I was little my mom would poke spiders with a broom until it was stuck on the bristles, then flush them down the toilet. I always imagined them crawling back out whenever I sat on it.
She’d also vacuum them up. I was scared of the vacuum cleaner.
hairspray and a lighter
works everytime
and its fun too watch
Spiders are gross. It’s ten thousand times worse when they are in your HAIR. I wrote about it here (sorry, I’m not html friendly):
http://cherylthoughts.blogspot.com/2007/10/temples-cleaning-and-spidersoh-my.html
But snakes are worse than spiders. Snakes Freak. me. out.