I showed mercy to a home invader,,, and now regret it.

[aarondhgraham]

So there I was,,,
Sitting there in my kitchen,,,
Watching a movie on Netflix, not bothering anybody.

When out of the corner of my eye I see one of those tiny (1/2") black furry spiders,,,
You know the hairy ones I'm talking about,,,
That look like a tiny tarantula.

My first instinct was to turn it to jelly,,,
But I would have had to get up and get the fly swatter,,,
So in a fit of apathy I decided to use laziness as an excuse for mercy.

I watched as she wandered behind my stove.

Flash forward a few days and I am having my first cup of coffee,,,
Wondering why that grain of black pepper is moving.

Upon closer inspection through morning fuzzy eyes,,,
I discovered the mobile fleck of pepper...
Was a (1/16") itsy-bitsy black spider.

I've now (after two days) squashed at least a dozen of the damned little things,,,
If I knew where "Mom" hatched her brood I would flood it in bug spray,,,
But I've seen the teeny-tiny little hell-spawned critters everywhere.

I guess that when they hatch,,,
They head out in all different directions,,,
So I guess I'm doomed to murdering them one at a time.

Couple dozen down,,,
Probably a hundred more to go.

Aarond,,,
The Arachnophobe!

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[Letfreedomring]

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[bubbaturbo]

I left one of those blue padded seat cushions in a tree stand for a summer. When I took the stand down, I threw the cushion in the back of my vehicle. Later, I was putting more stuff back there and noticed black fuzzy spiders piling out of the cushion and infiltrating my Toyota. I smashed those things for weeks. I don't know what they were living off of.

 

[XYZ]

I have one of those azz salt guns.
I wish they’d come out with a azz salt cannon.

 

[Catt57]

You can fill a water gun with any liquid..... Just sayin....

 

[TANSTAAFL]

1 moment of compassion, weeks of horror. I have an agreement with creepy crawlers, you stay outside, you don't die. I get creative at times, bug-a-salt, tissue, shoe, vacuum cleaner, windex. They know the rules, they break the rules and suffer the consequences.

 

[RockHopper]

I don't bother to kill anything, I just knock it on the floor.....And the dog will slobber it to death.

 

[Hangfire]

Got critters ?.....want em gone ?......give me a call.

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[Perplexed]

This reminds me of the summer my HS buddies and I built a raft out of a pallet, some saplings, and a pair of 55 gallon drums, and we put the raft on the lake behind my buddy’s house. One day we went down to the raft and climbed onto it to go fishing. Our weight pushed the underside of the pallet onto the water’s surface, and dozens of baby wolf spiders came swarming out from underneath. We all bailed in a hurry, of course.

 

[GlockPride]

Got critters ?.....want em gone ?......give me a call.

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Username sorta checks out.