Well shit i just killed a Black Widow in my Kitchen!!!!!!!

[Viking 0]

I went into my kitchen to get my grandma's night pills with the family black lab Emily in tow. She sees somthing on the floor. I look down to see a fully grown female black widow crawling on the floor less than a foot away from my toes. Needless to say i jumped back and grabbed the fly swatter.
I am not affraid of spiders normally but if one gets that close to my skin i tend to get a little freaked out. Isn't killing spiders one of the ladies biggest musts for a man?

I swear you must have footprints on the back of your helmet - chicagoskydiver
My God has a bigger dick than your god -George Carlin

[Scratch 0]

Geeeeze for a moment there I thought you were opening the race debate up again

[Michele 1]

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Isn't killing spiders one of the ladies biggest musts for a man? [Wink]

Yes, Viking, it is. Good deal!

I have a spider story, too...although not a black widow spider story.

There I was sitting at my desk, about 1:30 pm, working on a file, phone in my ear, chatting away, scheduling a pest control company to go to one of my client's homes...when out of the file crawls this humongous, gigantic, filthy, fuzzy spider (well, ok. It was about the size of a dime. Like I said, huge!). It's that bland brown color - kinda like baby poop. I scream, drop the phone, and knock the chair over trying to get away. Everyone comes running over, because a screaming female in the office is not usually a good sign. There I am, gibbering away. Horace gets there first. "What, Meeechel, what?" says he...there's a huge nasty spider, I say. Where? Where? as everyone starts laughing. I am now hollering to the lady on the phone to hold on, I'll be back in a minute....there's a spider needs killin' right now.

Long story short, Horace saves the day, squooshes the spider, and comments "oohhh, that was a juicy one, too"...and my file has a nasty filthy spider smear on it now.

Yuck. I just can't handle spiders at all. Jump from a plane? Sure. See a spider? Run screaming in the other direction. Literally.

Ciels and Pinks-
Michele

~Do Angels keep the dreams we seek
While our hearts lie bleeding?~

[lummy 4]

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Isn't killing spiders one of the ladies biggest musts for a man?

yeah, but there are two subtypes, the one who has to kill it right then and there, no questions asked, The other one who has to set it free so it will be happy and all will be right in the world.

I promise not to TP Davis under canopy.. I promise not to TP Davis under canopy.. eat sushi, get smoochieTTK#1

[Viking 0]

is this guys last name greely(sp)?

I swear you must have footprints on the back of your helmet - chicagoskydiver
My God has a bigger dick than your god -George Carlin

[Viking 0]

ya i have had to do that to. but if i find a spider than possibly kill my grandmother in the house its a gonna be a little spot on the floor.
I have lost three of my grandparents already i aint gonna let a damn spider take her too.

I swear you must have footprints on the back of your helmet - chicagoskydiver
My God has a bigger dick than your god -George Carlin

[hooked 0]

In our house, I'm the one killing the spiders and bugs! I'll never forget while I was in Arizona and saw a scorpion, I didn't hesitate to get that one! The following visit, I saw another one, the state is now short two scorpions! Ick! Ick! Don't like squashing them, but hey, you do what you have to do. Now, when it comes to mice, I'm running!!!! I'm not coming back until it's gone! No joke.

J

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Sometimes we're just being Humans.....But we're always Human Beings.

[Viking 0]

see now mice/rats are kinda fun b/c i get to pull out my pellet gun and do some target practice!!!!

hey whatya expect i grew up in the south!

I swear you must have footprints on the back of your helmet - chicagoskydiver
My God has a bigger dick than your god -George Carlin

[hooked 0]

This subject of mice/rats makes me........Oh geez, on guard. I am terrified of them.

J

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[AggieDave 6]

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i get to pull out my pellet gun and do some target practice!!!!

hehe...

*pump, pump, pump, pump*
*poofffff*
*squeak*
*thud*

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

[Viking 0]

only 4 pumps dave?!?! I usually crank that thing all the the way out to 20 even though it says to only go to ten! Thing sounds like a .22LR if i dry fire it!!

I swear you must have footprints on the back of your helmet - chicagoskydiver
My God has a bigger dick than your god -George Carlin

[Snowbird 0]

So who will get freaked out by the word SNAKE!

Bugs, spiders, mice, snakes... no biggie unless they are poisonous. I have a standing agreement with spiders around here. If they come in the house, they have to stay on the ceiling. If they come down into my space, they die. Simple.

As for black widows, they are very cool critters, just not inside my home.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
-Robert A. Heinlein

[MrsSkydiver 0]

Living in the desert we've had quite a few creepy crawlers invade our house..... 4 black widows at different times and this year two scorpions..... Now that was completely terrifying... I'm scared to death of spiders and now SCORPIONS too,

Just last week we found a Rattlesnake outside in the yard..... atleast he didn't try to get in

September 11, 2001
Though freedom's bells were silenced for a moment on this date,
They will ring out loudly once again, as love outweighs the hate.

[Viking 0]

as long as i am atleast 6 feet away from him i am fine with snakes. i used to see them all the time when i went hunting in the swamps behind my house. Only time i ever had to kill on was when i almost steped on a coiled Copper head. Thank god for the 410 shot gun i had or i would probly have a MUCH different story to tell if at all.

i remember my dad blowing the head off a 3 1/2 foot long diamond back that got into our back yard. Never knew a Colt 1911 .45 loaded with hot hollow points could do that until then. Noting left but a hole in the ground where its head used to be.

I swear you must have footprints on the back of your helmet - chicagoskydiver
My God has a bigger dick than your god -George Carlin

[meatmissile 0]

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Needless to say i jumped back and grabbed the fly swatter.

You could also have elected to stomp, even if you were barefoot.
For spiders on the ceiling I usually use a bungee, shot off the pointy-finger using the standard method.

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[Viking 0]

i was barefoot and didn't like the idea of getting spider guts on my foot. The ruber band thing seems like a good idea.

I swear you must have footprints on the back of your helmet - chicagoskydiver
My God has a bigger dick than your god -George Carlin

[BikerBabe 0]

Spiders...yuck! We have all kinds here, including big, ugly, fuzzy tarantulas. See, those are just too big to squoosh, so if one gets in the house we have to herd it outside. Same with the scorpions. yuck.

We also have snakes and mice, which i don't mind too much.

The worst, absolute worst, however, are the centipedes. YUCK! They're usually about 6-10 inches long and about 1/2 inch to an inch wide...we're talking the stuff of nightmares here. And if their appearance and poisonous-ness isn't bad enough, those fuckers are FAST! There was one in the couch cusion the other day...I swear, he ran to the closet at about 50 mph! Um...yeah, it was in the couch cushion...I still won't sit on the couch!

Never meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup!

[JDBoston 0]

Where do you guys live, at the zoo?

Joe

[SniperCJ 0]

Geez, I hate spiders! Thats the one thing thatll get my skin crawling.

I have a theory as to why I'm like that: When I was a kid I would come home late at night and walk across the yard to the house (we lived in the country). Invariably I would walk into a spider web and have it draped across my face. As I went flailing my arms across the yard one question always popped into my head "Where were the spider sitting? And is he now pasted to my forehead...?"

I hate scorpions too. Had one inside my pants once...but that another story...

JC

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Isn't killing spiders one of the ladies biggest musts for a man?

Definately!! I am terrified of spiders and all other bugs too. It is the man's job to kill the bugs.

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[GrumpySmurf 0]

Yeah pop 'em in the gut and they lie there twitching for a while, till ya put them out of their misery with another pop

[jessefs 0]

I was stacking firewood a couple years ago and felt something moving on the back of my hand...turned it over and a FAT black widow was walking up my hand. I dropped the wood, flailed my arms around, and screamed like a little schoolgirl

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[Schroeder 0]

I'm one of those strapping, tree-hugging types that sends all mis-guided creatures packing in the other direction. Until I turn my back, when they likely re-infiltrate my place. But since I turned vegan about 3 years ago now, I haven't killed anything right to a mosquito on purpose. Weird eh?

If I ventured in the slipstream; Between the via-ducts of your dreams.......could you find me?

[Sebazz1 2]

I have seen these bug vacuums in airplane shopping mags that suck up bugs into some kind of gell thing. Just cruise around and suck up bugs from four to six feet away and not worry about them crawling back out.

[billvon 3,005]

>Long story short, Horace saves the day, squooshes the spider . . .

I like spiders. They eat the nasty bugs, they make some really cool webs, and they are a hoot to watch. Ever watch one try to find the far end of his web when he's on the ground? He wanders around, waving his "arms" frantically, running in circles, until he blunders into it.