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Chellee

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20. Why on earth would I even click on a thread with the words "HUGE spider" in the title?

Reply to csziggy (Original post)

Tue Jun 21, 2016, 11:29 PM

Jun 2016

Why!?! Now I feel all creepy crawly, and it didn't even happen to me. I'm having creepy crawly sympathy pains.

A couple of weeks ago a co-worker said, "Oooh! You have to watch this video!" It was of a GiGANTIC spider (please God, let it be from Australia) that someone was attempting to flush down the toilet. It was too big to flush. Too big, too strong, it swam against the whooshing water, and then it hid under the rim. It didn't even completely fit under the rim. And it stayed there, where it would be inches away from your bare behind if you were to innocently sit without looking first. Now I have to check before I can go. Even though spiders like that probably come from Australia. (Please God, let it live in Australia.)

You have my deepest sympathies. May it be really and truly squashed DEAD DEAD DEAD.

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OMFG - a HUGE spider just dropped off of the ceiling onto my desk! [View all] csziggy Jun 2016 OP

I am with you 100% on spiders. I had to get one of the guys I work with come to my office Arkansas Granny Jun 2016 #1

LOL on hte rubber band! csziggy Jun 2016 #5

I sooooo feel your pain! I'm exactly the same way. woodsprite Jun 2016 #2

It probably wasn't a recluse - but it looked a lot like one csziggy Jun 2016 #6

We have recluse where I live, too. I've seen and killed several, myself. Arkansas Granny Jun 2016 #9

Some sources say recluses don't live in Florida csziggy Jun 2016 #10

This is why you need an assault "style" weapon. Warren Stupidity Jun 2016 #3

The net worked - but my fly swatter would have been more effective csziggy Jun 2016 #7

Spiders are great. Natural pest control. Kingofalldems Jun 2016 #4

I would have been perfectly fine if it had stayed up inside the light fixture csziggy Jun 2016 #8

yup Skittles Jun 2016 #16

You need one of these! Laffy Kat Jun 2016 #11

Now that is brilliant! I think I'll order two of them csziggy Jun 2016 #12

They are pricey! Laffy Kat Jun 2016 #13

Yes, part of the order process is agreeing it will take weeks for it to arrive csziggy Jun 2016 #14

You missed your chance MosheFeingold Jun 2016 #15

Or I could have died a horrible death and no one would have found me csziggy Jun 2016 #17

You were arachanoid. kairos12 Jun 2016 #18

I certainly was! I still am - now that it is getting late evening csziggy Jun 2016 #19

Why on earth would I even click on a thread with the words "HUGE spider" in the title? Chellee Jun 2016 #20

Just DO NOT watch the videos of the Australian guy vacuuming spiders csziggy Jun 2016 #22

I won't. Chellee Jun 2016 #23

I'm OK with spiders, but maybe that's easy for me The Velveteen Ocelot Jun 2016 #21

I'm OK with spiders if they stay where they belong - outside csziggy Jun 2016 #24

See, that's what's nice about the frigid North. The Velveteen Ocelot Jun 2016 #25

Yes, but it is frigid! I just can't take the cold csziggy Jun 2016 #26

The mosquitoes are normal-sized but there are a lot of them. The Velveteen Ocelot Jun 2016 #27

I used to not mind the heat and humidity csziggy Jun 2016 #28

Missed the chance to get Spider-man like powers. GOLGO 13 Jun 2016 #29