I just took a Shower and had the Shit scared out of me!

[BlueJazz]

Here I am just starting to soap-up when I turn around and about 6 inches
from my face is this Gigantic Spider.
This sucker was about 4-5 inches across and I swear, he had a look on his face like:
"Heh..Heh...just a little closer, my pretty"

Anyway..Mister Spider got a blast of water and got thrown in the toilet. (sorry, Spider Lovers)

Every time I encounter one of these monsters, I think of the Gary Larson Cartoon,
where 2 spiders have spun a huge web across the bottom of a children's slide (at a Pre-School)
and one spider says to the other..
"Bob, I'm telling you, If we can pull this one off, We'll eat like Kings!"

[Arugula Latte]

1. Oh holy crap!!!!!!!!

I frickin' HATE spiders. I know they are beneficial, blah blah blah. I love all animals -- except spiders! Because they lurk. Because they drop. Because they are the creepiest things on Earth (besides Republicans).

Oh god, 4 to 5 inches across. :scared:

[LSK]

2. "4-5 inches across"

So in reality it was barely visible! :rofl:

[4morewars]

3. I heard on the internets.....

that one is never more than three feet from a spider, AT ALL TIMES !

[texas1928]

4. Well at least it was not like this.

[anarch]

10. hey! where'd you get that pic of my shower?

I like to keep him in there to control the drain-fly population.

[texas1928]

17. I googled it.

Now Bush will know.

[momophile]

35. Okay. That actually makes my blood pressure rise.

Please don't post that again.:scared:

[southlandshari]

5. Yikes!!!

That must have been awful!

:scared:


You did the right thing.

;)

[azmouse]

6. I've had scorpions in the shower with me.

They get washed down the drain too.
Generally I like living in the desert but there are times.... :scared:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

41. Someone once told me that the pioneers used to keep tarantulas

because they hunted scorpions...
An intriguing thought, but I'm not sure if it's true.

[DS1]

7. Shit in the toilet, not the shower

:-)

[RebelOne]

8. Yes, for some reason, spiders gravitate to my shower.

I've killed dozens of them.

[HEyHEY]

13. You endorse that kind of genocide do you?

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

18. Maybe if you were a spider you wouldn't think this was funny

:eyes:

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

20. I thought it was funny.

The post was clearly expertly written.

:P

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

23. Like you would understand!

:eyes:

[Susang]

21. In most cultures

Its incredibly unlucky or unwise to kill a spider. Ever hear this rhyme?:

If you wish to live and thrive
let a spider run alive.

Sounds like you've run up an a backlog of bad luck. :wow:

[Arkansas Granny]

9. I love that cartoon. But, how did you have the nerve to stay

close enough to that spider to get it into the toilet? I have a phobia when it comes to spiders and I don't think I could have done that.

[caty]

11. I had the same thing

happen to me. Standing in the shower, with my back to the shower head, when I turned around to see a big spider dangling in front of my face. I opened up the sliding door at the back of the tub, got out, and knocked the spider into the tub. I washed it down the drain.
Those spiders must think it is really funny to scare us when we are wet and naked!:wow:

[Taverner]

12. Not a big spider fan

But learned to live with them in Thailand, because they ate scorpions (which are worse) and were actually not that poisonous once.

In fact once I saw a scorpion skittering accross my floor, only to have a huge tarantula jump out and take him down.

After that, all spiders were OK in my book - sort of...

[no name no slogan]

14. Which is why I bathe in the toilet

problem solved

[ScreamingMeemie]

15. Whole new problem...

http://www.school-for-champions.com/behavior/observerats.htm

Through sewer system
Rats are extremely capable of getting into houses. Studies have shown that some rats would swim through sewer drain systems to be able to come up through a toilet or sink drain.

[liberalitch]

30. AND i respect your abilities as a contortionist....

[hunter]

16. I mostly leave them alone.

They eat insects that are worse.

My wife doesn't like the hairy ones that run fast, so I put those outside.

These little guys are my favorite, especially when they are hunting:



They will stalk their dinner just like cats, and then they pounce!

http://mamba.bio.uci.edu/~pjbryant/biodiv/spiders

[SoCalDem]

26. I had one of these as a pet ..in my greenhouse window

He was a good spider.. His web was phenomenal.. My boys and I would stun flies for him and flip them into his web, just to see him scurry up and grab them.. The dopey flies all went to the greenhouse window anyway, and he got most of 'em..

My boys would invite all their little pals in "to see Mom's spider". I can still hear those little guys.. "Your MOM has a SPIDER??".."Cool!"

Then one day, he was just gone:cry:.. I never foound his body (he was a pretty beefy spider, too)




(borrowed from your link)

[hunter]

29. Ahhhh.... how sweet.

Who can resist those big dark eyes?

(All six of them.)

[SoCalDem]

31. We called him ZZ

:)

[ClintonTyree]

19. I have that cartoon framed............

it's hanging on my wall (the big one from the Far Side calender). One of my all time favorite Larson cartoons. Damn, I miss the "Far Side".

[ClintonTyree]

22. They're attracted to the moisture...........

they breed by the billions at our cottage on the St. Lawrence River. Twice a year we spray and that keeps them at bay. They're good for keeping the bug population down but getting bitten by one, even a non-venomous one, is a real pain in the.....wherever they bite you!

[liberalitch]

24. when my mom and dad were adding on a den....

lots of the house was open.... mom reached for her towel coming out of the shower and there was a copper head curled up on it.... fortunately she reacted more quickly than he!

[Beer Snob-50]

25. oh my gawd!

when i was younger i visited my aunt and uncle in virgina who had a cabin the mountains for a week. they warned me right off the bat about going outside with their dog due to cooperheads and check the sheets at night for black widows. i didn't sleep for the entire week.

[liberalitch]

28. we got some critters here in the old dominion....

that's fer sure

[Beer Snob-50]

32. they had a cabin on the skyline drive (i think that is the name)

it was a beautiful area. we also ran into a bear with a mayo jar on it's nose at a picnic area near their place.

[liberalitch]

33. When bears go bad.....

it's a sad, sad thing

[gizmo1979]

27. where do you live?

In a cave?

[jeanarrett]

34. Someone I work with got bit last Saturday

by a brown recluse. She had surgery today to remove the blackened, dead tissue from her thigh. And we live in Michigan and it's winter here!! The docs think she may have brought it home in her luggage on a recent business trip to Louisiana. Now those are not nice spiders.

[momophile]

36. these were in my shower all the time...

about four inches across.

[TheProphetess]

37. We had one crawling on the outside of our shower curtain

just the other day - it was damn big!

Luckily, my husband found it - I helped supervise the disposal (I want proof that it's gone!). :scared:

[Jara sang]

38. You shouldn't kill spiders

[ET Awful]

39. This really BEGS for a copycat, but it'd just get locked

:P

[Rob H.]

40. I actually walked into a huge spiderweb about a year ago

A spider had spun a web across my apartment door and I walked right into it in the dark. (I was too big to get stuck, though. Ha! Take that, hairy devil!) At the time I did the usual hopping-around-flailing-my-arms-like-a-loon thing then went inside. The next morning when I came out the spider was dead center in the web at about eye-level and that thing was huge. I got a broom and moved it away from my door and into some bushes. I didn't see it again after that, thank goodness.

[redqueen]

42. Awwww... I know it's scary

but I rather like that rush of adrenaline, I'd have probably just showered with it. I don't like to kill them since they eat other pests.