Battle with a Spider

Wibbles

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

Jimm_Alumni

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.

66Mustang

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 ...

Wibbles

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 legs

I can pick a DLL up - but not a spider of more than 1 inch legspan

I can't sleep - knowing that a spider is in the room/house

Hannah_Alumni

Thank you for no pictures this time @wibbles

WelshBlue

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