Spider

[weeal]

Picture it - you go into the bathroom late at night, turn on the light, and there is a HUGE black long-legged spider sitting right in the middle of the white bath - you cant miss it.
How do they get there? the window is shut, I have a hair snair in the plug hole, where do these huge things get in?????
Im running out of Raid !!!!!

[weeal]

lol Im just off there now, knackered

g'nite peeps

[pericat]

Have you ever had to get a neighbour in to dispense of a spider when your husband isn't home or spent two hours trying to trap one under a glass or sat in one spot staring at spider till husband comes home - there is nothing worse than not knowing where it's gone

[andy-hughes]

You did well to avoid the clips weeal!

cazz is right, spiders travel around the house, usually unseen, but when they encounter a bath or basin, they can't grip to climb out, which is why you find them there - hence the myth that they crawl up drinpipes. Apart from the fact that there are svereal inches of water in your basin drain trap which a spider could not get through, they are far too clean to go anywhere near a wet mucky drainpipe - unless it's a oneway trip out of your bathroom!

If you can stand it, drape a towel over the edge of the bath touching the bottom, and leave it overnight. Mr Spider will be gone in the morning, and you'll probably never see him again. They do good work killing disease-carrying flies, so try to be nice to them.

[lankeela]

Found one amongst the junk on my kitchen windowsill tonight - probably the one I chucked out of the bathroom window above a couple of weeks ago!

[madmaggot]

Don't kill spiders!!
Do the towel thing and let it live; spiders are our friends.
(As long as they don't crawl on me lol!)

[MrsJ1]

Once they get into the bath, the sides are too slippery for them to get out. If you dont want to find one there in the morning, leave a towel over teh side of teh bath so they can climb out on that. That's what my mum taught me when I was little....... thinking back, she also said you would never find more than one of the monsters in the bedroom because they dont like each other - and that was a big fat lie!

We had four of the biggies in yesterday. I am not going to enjoy the next few months!

[caththecrazy]

I always lift them out of the bath or shower first as I hate to see them drown. They don't bother me at all but hubby isn't keen he tries to make out he's not scared but I know.....

My best friend is so scared that one quite a few years ago she came home and there wasa money spider on the door step and she rang her mum asleep upstairs to come and rescue her (it was about 2am)

Another time she's was on the phone to her then boyfriend who lived in Kent and a spider appeared she was screaming so much he actually got a train up to London then down to where she lived to remove it!!!

[weeal]

Hi, thanks all, lol its a common phobia - irrational you cant calm someone who hates spiders so much, I have palpatations n everything lol

[marval]

I spent ages once looking at a spider. It was on my kitchen floor, and I couldn't decide if it was alive or dead, as it didn't move. Eventually I plucked up courage to have a closer look, silly me lol, it was not a spider but a tomato stalk.

[weeal]

pmsl @ marval

Ive seen me doin that and its a bit of thread or fluff haha

[marval]

Yes, I felt such a fool afterwards. I wondered why it hadn't moved for such a long time.

At least it wasn't one of these.

http://www.worsleyschool.net/science/files/big gest/spider.html

[weeal]

Im not looking, Im NOT

[marval]

Oh go on you know you want to, it is only a picture. I will make you a calming cup of tea afterwards.

[weeal]

oh ok, any excuse for a cuppa

Goliath !!! aptly named eh Y U K

Can I have milk n 2 sugars please?

[marval]

Here you are, enjoy.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nice_Cup_of_ Tea.jpg

[weeal]

youre way too posh - thanks Marval weeal drinks it with pinkie sticking out

[marval]

I would have given you a mug, but my dish washer hasn't turned up today.

[weeal]

Oh how sad - Im a mug kinda girrrrrrl

[marval]

Yes, mugs for me usually. Right I am of to make a coffee. Probably will be back later.

Bye

[naomi24]

Hi Weeal, I know you shouldn't kill them, I know about all the good they do, I know they can't hurt me, but none of that helps because, as irrational as it is, I just can't stand them - so wherever I find one, in the bath or on the ceiling, I suck them up the hoover. One whoosh and they're gone.