Sid

[Champagne]

I went to get into bed last night and lifted the duvet (as you do) when suddenly a huge, hairy, 8-legged arachnid named Sid scurried out and ran down the side of the mattress. He was obviously pretty annoyed that i'd woken him from his cosy slumber in my bed because he looked pretty aggressive and scary to me.

So I jumped back, shuddered, squealed and generally reacted like a big girl's blouse in a hee-bee-gee-bees fit.

Then I did what any mature and responsible adult would do in such situations... I let Sid have the run of the bedroom whilst I retired to the sofabed in the living room.

At least I know i'm not mad though, because I didn't sellotape up the gaps around the bedroom door like other crazy arachnophobes would do!

But seriously, would you have done the same in my situation? What other options did I have?

[Doc Spock]

Well that accounts for the strange dream then.

[China Doll]

Get up.

Turn Hall Light on.

Leave your door open.

Go out three nights in a row.

Let your neightbour/housemate deal with the little bar steward while you're out.

Well it worked for me.

Alternatively....

Call your mate and ask if her boyfriend can pop round and deal with it.

Both have worked for me.

[Doc Spock]

Me and my wife actually like those great big house spiders. We had 2 in our previous house, they looked like a couple so we called them Janice and Barry after some people I once worked for.

It was quite upsetting when we did not see them for days.

[Champagne]

You're sick, Doc!

I just can't do spiders i'm afraid. I am definitely more scared of them than they are of me. I challenge anyone to prove otherwise.

But I can't kill them either. The poor little scary blighters.

I definitely won't be able to sleep in there tonight unless I find it and deal with it! Maybe I could borrow a friend's dog or cat and lock them in the bedroom for a couple of hours and leave them to battle it out with Sid?

My money's on the spider.

[CraigOO7]

How did you know his name was Sid?

[pinkkitty]

i used to work in the office of a company that sold imported timbers. Once i was leaving for the day when one of the drivers said "Stef, you've got a spider on you" i thought he was winding me up, but when i looked down there was indeed an enormous black hairy spider on the back of my leg. i started jumping up and down screaming "get it off get it off!" while all the men laughed at me. Eventually one of them took pity and got rid of the disgusting thing. Seriously, that was no British spider! dunno what it was but i've never seen anything else like it. *shudder*

once, when i was about 10, i made my mum get out of bed when she was realy sick to get rid of a spider from my bedroom. turns out she had pnumonea. i felt kind of bad about that....

[Loosehead]

I'm not their biggest fan but I'd have to get shot of it, I don't usually kill them unless I have to I usually catch them and bung them out the window.

[Octavius]

I suspect this whole story is the fabricated correlation of an attention seeking loose minded perfidious charlatan. I can see through the holes in this �����story������.

For one thing, Sid is not a spider. He is a camel that lives with his girlfriend Nancy in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

[bigmamma]

Oh no , mention of a spider !!!! ....shudder.....I would have had a heartstopping gasp and slept in the other room . :-0

[mccfluff]

i'd move out

[johnlambert]

so that's wherte i left him!!!
can I have him back please?

[jno]

if he'd been called Boris, there are tried and tested instructions on what to do

http://www.lyrics007.com/The%20Who%20Lyrics/Bo ris%20The%20Spider%20Lyrics.html

but Sid, I don't know

[Champagne]

ROFLMFAO @ mcfluff!!! I did consider that action.

And pink, I think i'd have died of a heart attack there and then if a spider was actually ON me. I once had a spider scurry over my foot in the bathroom. He was a big 'un too. I felt a tickle on my foot and when I realised what it was I froze for about 2 seconds, then screamed and ran outta there!

I had a friend at my flat at the time and she wasn't scared of spiders, but this one freaked her out a bit. She picked it up by one leg and carried it out of the house. The spider didn't look too bothered though. He was smoking a fag with one of his other legs and scratching his ar$e with another!

[Octavius]

Smoking a fag and scratching its arse?
It was female then, not male.

[lilacben]

How could you go to sleep last night knowing there was a spider in the place. ugh!!!!!I would have had to find it and get rid,or rather hubby would. Now you dont know where it is. I would keep the lights on from now on. When my girls where young and hubby working lates I found a spider and went outside to get a neighbour to come and get it for me.Prehaps you have a nice neightbour who will come in today. But better find it first, now that could take ages. I didnt know that they where coming in yet so will be very careful tonight about closing the window before it gets dark. Brenda x

[johnlambert]

I read somewhere that in a year the average human will eat 8 spiders in their sleep.
sorry to freak you out Champers old girl,

[mccfluff]

i was innocently sitting at my desk the other day when fred decended out from the vent above me and tried to sit on my shoulder, needless to say i screamed my head off, made a right tw@t of myself and ran out the office crying. i moved to IT and wouldn't go back till the next day wheni knew the aircon engineers were in and i could get them the clean the vent

[Pippa68]

I eat 8 spiders a week John. With some fava beans and a nice bottle of Chianti.

I had a lovely spider on my front window the other day. We christened it 'Big Bum'. I didn't have the heart to eat it though.

[Champagne]

Pips, I wish I was as brave as you.

We actually had the biggest house spider i've ever seen appear in our kitchen sink last week. I was made aware of it by one of my flatmates screaming. We both steered well clear of the kitchen for a while, until my other flatmate got up, went to make a cup of coffee and I didn't hear a peep. Not even a mild shriek of surprise. So I went to investigate and she simply said, "I killed it."

And she had. She'd flushed it down the sink with hot water.

So i'm going to find the spider in my room tonight and get my hardened, unphaseable (sp?) flatmate to sort it....

...or i'll sleep on the sofabed. Whatever.

[beejaybee]

I`m astoshied at the way people react to spiders of any size. I with Doc & actually like them & snakes etc.