As My Wife Shreaks in Terror, I Let the Little Guy Outside...

[Dr_Funkenstein]

She looked at me as if I were a mutant, or one of those odd psychopaths on the hour long cop-dramas on TV. You know, the guy who collects Tic-Tacs, or spells things with paper clips.

He was just a little guy, dark chocolate brown, kinda fuzzy, with a bright green spot on his butt. He was hungry, and no doubt searching for another insect beneath him on the food chain. He wasn't harming anyone; in fact, he was doing us a favor. To my wife, however, he was the most vile of 8-legged behemoths, and must be destroyed. I added confusion to my wife's terror-salad, like sprinkling that last touch of sunflower seeds, or tomatoes. She gazed at me as if I were morphing into spider...much like the one I was carefully scooping up...and placing outside.

Unless it's one of the dynamic duo (Recluse/Widow), I leave them alone.

[LaurenG]

1. Good for you

We take all the bugs outside too. :7

[Dr_Funkenstein]

2. Good...

I thought I was alone there.

By the way, I spelled "spider" with paper clips, and used a Tic-Tac to dot the "I" with.

[Beaverhausen]

3. I'm with you - black widows must die

but all others get to live. Unless they are in the shower/tub with me. Those guys go down the drain.

[stuntcat]

4. you get them in the shower too ?!?

omg it's horrifying if I've forgotten to check and then I close my eyes a while to do my hair.. and then look down.. :scared:

But other than then I respect the spiders.

[Beaverhausen]

5. I got a huge black widow in my shower last year

you really can't get any more vulnerable than when you are naked in the shower.

It was crawling up the outside of the shower curtain, and I just happened to catch a glimpse of one of it's legs coming over the top as I leaned my head back to wet my hair.

This was the hugest spider I had ever seen, aside from tarantulas. And how do you kill a spider when it is sitting on a shower curtain? You don't...you get your boyfriend to go to the store to get some RAID. (I know, I hate the stuff but I'm not kidding this thing was HUGE)

Most spiders I see now pale in comparison, and really don't scare me like that one did!

[stuntcat]

6. you. are. lucky.

Have you seen the gory pictures of what happens to people who got bit? I wanna barf just thinking about it.
The ones I have once in a while are big BIG spiders but I think they're harmless.. anyway I've learned to check every inch of the shower every day now! :o
I hope you don't have black widows ever EVER again.