The Spider That Tried to Kill Us
· CommentsTo quote The Office: “That’s what she said.”
No, seriously, this was a truly HUGE spider. I was sitting at the coffee table looking at e-mail Sunday morning when I hear a very loud, insistent, “Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh!!!!!!” I looked over at her, as any wonderful husband does when his wife begins to freak out without any husbandic action (new word - use it, love it, spread it). I saw her eyes fixed at the top of the wall above our breakfast bar and saw the biggest spider I had ever seen outside a plexiglass box at an animal attraction.
I dutifully watched it as she got the flyswatter, because I sure as heck wasn’t going to be able to get this thing taken care of with a napkin. It was as big as her hand with its legs spread out. I had to get the barstool close enough that I could get a shot in without sending it scampering behind the hutch. My aim was true, and bits of legs went flying and it didn’t move again.
Here’s a photo journal of the event, with the last photo being my iPhone for scale (note that its remaining legs are pulled way in).
PS - Sorry about the huge file sizes, but I’m testing out the gallery feature’s meta data and didn’t want to lose the camera info.
6 Comments
September 17th, 2008 at 5:43 am
Love it - Husbandic!
Don’t think my wife would return to the house if we had anything that big…talking spiders here!
September 17th, 2008 at 8:16 am
That exact scene has played out many times around here. You do realize the importance of your one shot to ensure death, right? K was well trained and consequently, so were you. LOL
September 17th, 2008 at 8:28 am
@DM - What!? They don’t have big bugs in the UK!? Even in our new construction, I kill at least a grasshopper and a cockroach per week because they’re getting displaced by the buildings going up next to us.
@ML - She told me that if I’d been on my retreat that she would have had to call Dewey, but I think he was already at rehearsal or would have been late.
That would have been a disaster of epic proportions.
September 18th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
And how does K feel about geckos? That’s what we have the most of here — no, wait! Maybe ants are fist and geckos are second. But we don’t always kill the geckos; we usually capture them and release them outside the house.
September 19th, 2008 at 5:07 am
@ Jesse - we are fairly bug free in England only small spiders or ‘daddy long legs’ - bet you haven’t heard of that one before…hehe.
September 19th, 2008 at 5:10 am
Sure, we had lots of ‘daddy long legs’ in Ohio growing up. The strange thing is that I think they get eaten here, because I don’t recall seeing them in FL.