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Battle with a Spider
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Wibbles
Community member Posts: 1,621 Pioneering
Just had a fight with a large spider
My wife screamed - "HARRY"
I rushed upstairs to see her pinned against the bedroom wall. Between her and the bedroom door was a MASSIVE spider - stretched out, it would have been 5 inches leg-tip to leg-tip
"Help" she said "It has smelt blood"
So I grabbed the rechargeable Dyson - and started sucking, but as I moved the end of the nozzle towards the enemy - the spider ran, I mean really shifted towards the landing
I changed tack and decided to bring out the big guns - the mains powered Dyson (more suck than the rechargeable) - but it was in another bedroom, which meant taking my eyes off the spider for a few seconds - so I started to move. The spider moved too - very quickly to the wall, where it ran out of reach at the top of landing stairwell...
I grabbed a feather duster on a long pole and wrestled its grip off the wall - it fell to the hallway and ran towards the front room.
I was not having any of this and hit it with a hardback book
This stunned the spider and gave me a chance to Dyson it
It had the last laugh though - refusing to wash down the bath plughole
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Sounds like a good short-film ^^ I can see the scene where the camera is attached to the dyson and it closes in on the spider
We just bring our cat to it, sometimes takes a bit for her to realise it's there.
They/Them, however they are no wrong pronouns with me so whatever you feel most comfortable with
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Opinions are my own, such as mashed potato being bad. -
Sounds like my experiences as well
I like animals and don't like killing but there is something about spiders that really bothers me
As soon as a spider is in my presence I won't be able to relax until it is dead
A daddy long legs has a 5 inch leg span and doesn't scare me at all ... yet a spider with half the leg span ...
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66Mustang said:Sounds like my experiences as well
I like animals and don't like killing but there is something about spiders that really bothers me
As soon as a spider is in my presence I won't be able to relax until it is dead
A daddy long legs has a 5 inch leg span and doesn't scare me at all ... yet a spider with half the leg span ...Spiders are more muscular than daddy long legsI can pick a DLL up - but not a spider of more than 1 inch legspanI can't sleep - knowing that a spider is in the room/house -
Thank you for no pictures this time @wibblesHannah - She / Her
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Bazooka or dynamite, house insurance will sort it
I'll never forget the time there was a monster in my shed. Sprayed it with some EasyStart hoping to kill it quick ... it went bonkers, ran up the wall and landed on my shoulder
I literally pee'd myself
I would rather jump into a group of Millwall fans than face one spider
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