By Lepisma - 26/06/2013 07:19 - United States - College Station

Today, I faced my severe phobia of spiders in order to remove a rather large one from my home. After 20 minutes of desperate struggling, it was finally taken care of. Relieved, I sat down and glanced across the hallway just in time to see a second, equally large spider strutting across the wall. FML
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Lepisma 38

I usually handle smaller spiders okay unless they surprise me, but these guys were big. This happened at about 1 am last night and my housemate was asleep, so a vacuum was not an option. I did use big spray. In fact, I nailed the first one three times and it shrugged it off like a BAMF (it was a Texan spider, after all). I actually already have a cat - two, in fact. They were very interested in the spiders, but I didn't want them to get bitten, so I didn't let them get close enough to attack. I finally got the first one in a cup with a lid and filled that sucker up with the bug spray. That worked! Then I saw the second one and about died, myself. It ended up under a cup eventually, too, and met Mr. Shoe. Thanks for the suggestions, though - they made me laugh!

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EMTchic 14

I am SO sorry! I know how that is, I also have a terrible case or arachnophobia. I wouldn't have even been able to kill the first one, so I must say good for you on being able to face your fear! =)

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lulubelles 33

I'm not, they don't bother me at all. But I live in the UK where our spiders are tiny, if I lived somewhere that had big or poisonous ones, that might be a different story!

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monnanon 13

maybe where you are in the UK they are tiny. where i livr in the uk we get hand sized jet black spiders occasionally. i grew up in a sizable town but with lots of trees and thata where there they came from. i now live in a suburban area and our spiders are usually 50p sized. nice and managable.

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ImmaBabyGoat 13

@64: I'm just going to go add that to my list of nightmares now......

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cottoncandymango 17

Kill it with fire! Or just call pest-control...

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not_a_robot 15

Better torch the whole neighborhood just to be safe.

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judea95 16

I had an infestation in my house. A nest had hatched whilst we were on holiday. I'm not scared of spiders but it was horrific. When you are fi ding spiders in your bed and making webs across drinking glasses, you know there's a problem. You don't need an exterminator though, good ol' spray on bleach does the trick... ...though we do have lovely stains from melted spiders now...

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countryrose92 23

My exterminator is my vacuum, (with a hose extender) my bottle of spider poison (has a 5 foot spray nozel) a shoe (usually thrown) or the spider will get the generosity of my room mate squishing them with a tissue if they are home at the time. I show no mercy to spiders. If the spider is on a web I light the web on fire. That's always fun.

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T3NA 12

so how did you explain the fire to firefighters

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shadowomega2 5

the spider lit a match

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midnight165 5

I feel your pain.. Bugs creep me out

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KiddoKS 19

I got one to crawl on a racket zapper once and then watched him spark! I'm usually all for being nice to animals, but no mercy when they crawl on you and bite you.

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