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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gregnc_fml 18

Don't worry, I'm sure the spiders have as much androphobia as you do arachnophobia!

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sythe511 28

The "large" spider was probably the size of a quarter.

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bZar_Sneaky 1

Where i live we have banana tree spiders and they're the size of a hand.

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Jennybean28 8

At least you saw it and it didn't appear in the middle of the night on you or something.

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naturalbadassnba 11

Im terrified of spiders too! Use the vacumn cleaner to suck it up! Thats what i always do so u don't have to touch it. Extend the long part and take off the wheels/flat part thing so its just a long sucking tube.

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firefly319 7

Vacuum. Extension hose and then let it run for a minute or two with the extension hose pointed straight up. Made my life much easier.

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WhiteCrimson 23

Funny how an 8 legged arachnid is just as scared of you as you are of them, accept for the roman and camel spider, they attack sound,so when you scream they come charging.

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Tblankk34 8

Burn your house with all valuables still in side and run! Run far away!

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Sinistra_Blue 12

Welp, time to burn down the neighborhood and move far away.

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ShoyuSauceSoup 26

I understand you, OP. I also hate spiders, and I'm terrified of them, even the small ones.

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