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vr_trakowskiThere is a spider in my bathtub.
I'm not an arachnophobe, not in the classic sense. I don't like looking at spiders generally, but they don't make me nonfunctional, and the tiny ones don't bother me at all.
However.
The one currently in my tub is the largest free-range spider I've seen on this continent; it's bigger than a standard daddy longlegs and is a lot more aware than those busy trundlers usually are. It knows I'm here. And while I can just barely deal with it hanging out where the ceiling joins the wall (it apparently doesn't do webs), the fact that it insists on dropping into the shower while I'm using it is just not on.
It happened this morning, and was made all the more entertaining when one considers that without my glasses all I can see is a vague movement of it crawling along the ceiling...and then it disappears.
in the immortal words of ursulav, at that my skin goes "Woopwoopwoop!" like Dr. Zoidberg and does not so much crawl off my body as sprint wildly off it, out the door, down the street, and buy a one-way ticket to Siberia.
Not only that, this was the second time this has happened. I almost managed to wash it down the drain the first time--standing dripping in my bathroom, outside the tub thank you very much--until my conscience kicked in and I sighed and dipped down some toilet paper, sort of blotting the thing up as it was thoroughly drenched and immobile, like a piece of extremely long-legged lint. I figured I was too late, but the next day....it was back above.
This time I left it adhered to the side of the tub and hoped its suicidal tendencies (or maybe it just thinks I'm the biggest prey ever and is doing the equivalent of a spider scream-and-leap?) had done it in, but when I came home from work...it was lurking in the bottom of the tub and eyeing me malevolently.
I'm trying to think of an object of equivalent size for comparison purposes, but I can't come up with anything and there is no bloody way I'm Googling for a picture. It could straddle the short side of a credit card, let's put it that way.
I'm not going to kill it. I can't, not directly. I'd probably have a very difficult time just deliberately washing it down the drain if it didn't get itself wet first. It has as much right to live as I do--not to mention the potential of it launching itself at me from the ground.
*sigh* I miss my cats.
I'm not an arachnophobe, not in the classic sense. I don't like looking at spiders generally, but they don't make me nonfunctional, and the tiny ones don't bother me at all.
However.
The one currently in my tub is the largest free-range spider I've seen on this continent; it's bigger than a standard daddy longlegs and is a lot more aware than those busy trundlers usually are. It knows I'm here. And while I can just barely deal with it hanging out where the ceiling joins the wall (it apparently doesn't do webs), the fact that it insists on dropping into the shower while I'm using it is just not on.
It happened this morning, and was made all the more entertaining when one considers that without my glasses all I can see is a vague movement of it crawling along the ceiling...and then it disappears.
in the immortal words of ursulav, at that my skin goes "Woopwoopwoop!" like Dr. Zoidberg and does not so much crawl off my body as sprint wildly off it, out the door, down the street, and buy a one-way ticket to Siberia.
Not only that, this was the second time this has happened. I almost managed to wash it down the drain the first time--standing dripping in my bathroom, outside the tub thank you very much--until my conscience kicked in and I sighed and dipped down some toilet paper, sort of blotting the thing up as it was thoroughly drenched and immobile, like a piece of extremely long-legged lint. I figured I was too late, but the next day....it was back above.
This time I left it adhered to the side of the tub and hoped its suicidal tendencies (or maybe it just thinks I'm the biggest prey ever and is doing the equivalent of a spider scream-and-leap?) had done it in, but when I came home from work...it was lurking in the bottom of the tub and eyeing me malevolently.
I'm trying to think of an object of equivalent size for comparison purposes, but I can't come up with anything and there is no bloody way I'm Googling for a picture. It could straddle the short side of a credit card, let's put it that way.
I'm not going to kill it. I can't, not directly. I'd probably have a very difficult time just deliberately washing it down the drain if it didn't get itself wet first. It has as much right to live as I do--not to mention the potential of it launching itself at me from the ground.
*sigh* I miss my cats.
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Date: 2012-08-23 10:30 pm (UTC)Me to my brother: Come quick, there's a spider in the bathtub!
Brother: How big is it?
Me: !!! They're *all* big.
There are plenty of bugs in the universe; once they enter my house, they're fair game. Btw, if you spray an area with a mixture of water and mint extract, most spiders won't come back (gardener's hint).
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Date: 2012-08-27 04:30 am (UTC)Oddly enough, the biggest I've seen outside captivity was in England.
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Date: 2012-08-23 11:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-08-27 04:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-08-23 11:50 pm (UTC)*HUGS* (sorry I can't be there to help get him outside).
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Date: 2012-08-27 04:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-08-24 03:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-08-27 04:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-08-26 03:32 am (UTC)Since I always end up looking like an extra from a really low-grade horror movie after a spider bite, I generally kill them on sight.
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Date: 2012-08-27 04:32 am (UTC)Doesn't mean they can't bite, though.
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Date: 2012-08-27 02:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-08-29 04:12 am (UTC)Now, if only it would find a nice cellar SOMEWHERE ELSE...
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Date: 2012-08-29 06:11 am (UTC)Besides, I think it was Sun Tzu who said, "Know your enemies." :D
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Date: 2012-08-29 12:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-08-29 04:13 am (UTC)