How Now, Brown, uh, Spider

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I'll take "Things you don't want to find in the office bathroom" for $1000, Alex.

Yeah. I got to play big male hero at the office when one of the ladies asked me to "Take a spider from the bathroom outside." I walked in and decided, no, sorry, big boy* needs to make another karmic lap as something else.


* Thorax was about 3/4", leg span about 1-3/4"

Comments

[tirani.livejournal.com]

That's a big ass brown recluse *shudder*

The spiders and I have an agreement. If they stay outside the house, they are allowed to live. There was a lovely 3" garden specimin that built a web between two boxwoods the first year we were at the house.

However, once they come inside, all bets are off. I have rolled up newspapers, shoes and a big strong husband and I'll use them all.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

I have rolled up newspapers, shoes and a big strong husband and I'll use them all.

... but enough about your sex life; how do you deal with the spiders?

*ducks*

[megiddo-lj.livejournal.com]

My husband theonebob has a nasty habit of letting the offenders live. He is also refusing to kill grasshoppers for me this season, which means I need to purchase an air gun. The grasshoppers in question max out around 6".

[etcet.livejournal.com]

that's what big stompy boots are for. sure, you'd need to jump on it a couple times in your Birks, but, still...

[tomakins.livejournal.com]

Had two of those once in my apartment back in 1999. I killed the first one and was telling chadkin about it. He thought I was a wuss for going on about how big it was. Then he as over and a second one appeared:

"Jeeze, that is big."
"Yeah, I told you. Need to get something to kill it."
"I don't know. It cons red and is scowling, ready to attack."

[etcet.livejournal.com]

heh!

btw, what's that icon?

[tomakins.livejournal.com]

Photoshopped a picture from Fight Club:

[kat1031.livejournal.com]

My thing with spiders is that if they're poisonous, they get relocated. If they aren't poisonous, they get a map of the house, marked with the locations of any other bugs I have seen recently.

Vegas has really, really scary roaches. Really, really scary. Big. And flying. And scary.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

I think Vegas roaches, other than being studded with rhinestones, making dinging noises, and sporting too much aqua velva and brylcreem, don't hold a candle to the giant mutant palmetto bugs we've got here in florida.

[kat1031.livejournal.com]

Those are two different types of roaches. *grin*

No, our roaches probably don't hold a candle to FL's palmetto bugs... but ours have been reinforced by nuclear fallout. And they really are scary.

[baobh.livejournal.com]

Spidery kind of day, I guess. I just smushed something in my apartment that looked alarmingly like a teeny black widow. *shudder*

[smaugchow.livejournal.com]

Spiders suck. Slay that mofo.