It's 2 am

[gremcint]

I need to pee, I go downstairs and I very nearly do.

SPIDER

SPIDER

NOW WHAT DO I DO

The end result involved my vacuum a bucket with a lid and my front door.

I have aracnophobia and have for years, so I want credit for not just sobbing in the corner.

The reason I couldn't just leave it in the vacuum as it is a bagless unit and I've seen flies survive in it before so I dumped the canister in a bucket with the little guy inside it I slammed the lid on and threw it out my front door bucket and all.

[TheSHAD0W]

That's a nice-sized spider.

The one I found in my laundry room one night was a bit bigger though...

http://i.imgur.com/6UdsG.jpg

[BlaqueKatt]

That's a nice-sized spider.

The one I found in my laundry room one night was a bit bigger though...

WANT!
As in really really want!
I love tarantulas!

[gremcint]

you're welcome to come get this spider, it's still on the lawn in the bucket

[DeltaSierra]

[Jay 2K Winger]

Kill it with fire!

F that. Take Ripley's advice!

[TheSHAD0W]

WANT!
As in really really want!
I love tarantulas!

Well, I left it alone, because it was already probably dying -- I regularly use insecticide in my house -- and there's an exterior-grade door between the laundry room and the rest of my house, so it wasn't going to be crawling on me in the night. It was nowhere to be seen in the morning.

If you like tarantulas you ought to move down this way. Lots of Mexican Browns.

[auroravoldemort]

*shudders* Arachnophobia is the worst. I've been terrified of spiders (and actually most insects, flying and crawling) for as long as I can remember. What makes it even more embarrassing is the fact that I live in the UK, where there are absolutely zero poisonous/scary/huge insects at all, the worst we have are tiny wasps and bees, which do sting but it's not as if their stings will kill me. I'll run and scream for my fiance if I see so much as a spider 2mm long.

I nearly wet myself with fear when I lived in Switzerland and saw my very first hornet.

Any tips from any of you who've managed to conquer your fear of insects?

[cashierbex]

My dad once hair spray and a lighter to a spider once. Thing was huge and colorful. I took great pleasure in watching it burn cause I am insanely scared of em.

[fireheart]

My dad once hair spray and a lighter to a spider once. Thing was huge and colorful. I took great pleasure in watching it burn cause I am insanely scared of em.

My boyfriend did that with surface spray (as in the polish-type stuff, not the insect spray) by mistake. This was back when he was still in high school too might I add. (and no, he was not dating me yet)

What had happened was he'd grabbed what he THOUGHT was insect spray to kill a spider in his bedroom. It was in actual fact surface spray and the spider basically suffocated instead of being poisoned. So my boyfriend had the great idea to set it on fire.

[Seraph]

nope nope nopenopenopenope

/moves to the moon

[Crossbow]

My dad once hair spray and a lighter to a spider once. Thing was huge and colorful. I took great pleasure in watching it burn cause I am insanely scared of em.

I've only done that to one spider, and that was in our garage. But considering it was round, black, and had a rather prominent white hourglass shaped mark on its back, I felt it was justified.
(Yes, black widows can have white hourglass markings instead of red...)

And I won't link to pics of the black and yellow orb weavers we get commonly at my campsite. I'll take them over the mosquitoes any day and they're not aggressive, but damn they are big.

[AnaKhouri]

I was terrified of spiders until one day I saw a brown one scurrying across the carpet to my son. Brown recluses are common around here and aren't very easy to tell apart from other brown spiders, so I grabbed a paper towel and killed that sucker good.

I felt like Ripley in Aliens. "Get away from him you BITCH!"

[Caffienated_Caramel]

didn't have my camera phone on me but when I was at work today, cleaning the bathrooms, there was big brown spider trying to crawl out of the sink. >< After letting out a scream, I drowned it with the cleaning chemicals I was using and after watching STILL trying to move, I smashed it with the spray bottle

I don't think mine was big as yours though Grem, or I would be screaming louder. I wanna carry around one of those electric fly swatters and fry it!

[fma_fanatic]

Little? Little? Little?!

That sucker is bigger than the coin on the floor. That's not little!

If I'd been me, DaDairyDruid would have been roused to take care of his pet.