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LadyEllen -> RE: It tried to kill me - honest!! (3/30/2007 4:05:01 AM)
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So MissT, does this mean youre not coming round tonight to watch films?
I got a great selection, including 8 Legged Freaks and LOTR Return of the King........
If you want to be clear of spiders for a while, then leave the house for a week, having set off fumigation bombs in every room. On your return, you will see how many spiders were in the house, for their choked corpses will litter the place. But it is very cruel, and its karmically catastrophic to kill spiders. Theyre all around us MissT, all the time - but they only bother us when we know theyre there....... <hears muffled shriek from the north>
What you need is a little courage and a pint glass - a straight one, and a beer mat. You pop the pint glass over the spider, gently slide the beer mat beneath, trying not to trap the legs and snap them off, lift the whole thing and tip spider to the bottom keeping beer mat firmly on the top - you'd be surprised how strong larger spiders are. Open door, throw spider outside. Or if you have a neighbour you dont like, pop spider through letterbox. Capturing in a glass means you can also get a safe close up look at said fiend, which is important to desensitise yourself a little; dont keep it in the covered glass for too long though as it will suffocate quite soon in a closed environment.
For tiny spiders and the babies of the monsters trapped in your bath, first put the plug in so they dont go down the hole. Then get some loo roll and get them onto it so you can hoist them out of the bath. Note how these tiny ones are quite cute really.
I've only killed one spider in the five years I've lived here, and that was because the bugger was on my bedroom ceiling above the bed and wouldnt get captured. Hairspray knocks them off and poisons them (fly killer does the same), but best to finish the job quickly so the poor thing doesnt suffer too much.
I also fear and loathe spiders MissT - well the big ones anyway, but I've managed to stop shrieking now and got to admire them instead. I even bought a Collins spotter guide to spiders and read up on them a bit so I know one creepy scuttler from another, and got to the stage where I actually let the cellar spiders we had in the house last year stay where they were because they were so fascinating to watch. Didnt stop one house spider from biting me in bed though - four bites on my leg last summer which are still visible now.
And now the really scary part - theyre running all over the place in the dark of the night MissT. I only caught one fiend because I happened to get up at 3am and turn the lights on, and there it was...! But you'd be surprised at how they feel on your skin - you likely wouldnt notice anything more than a gentle silky caress as they walk over you. Not that I found that out deliberately - it was just that one was sitting in a towel I used to dry my face one day. It ran off the towel onto my head and then down my face to escape and I might have not even known had I not been looking in the mirror at the time.
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