There are two times… no, that’s wrong, there are no times when I actually like spiders as such, but there are two times when I like them even less than usual:
One, when they’re in big closeup on my computer or TV screen, or in a magazine or book;
Two, when they’re in my house and I’m the only one awake to deal with them.
I particularly dread the latter situation, and so obviously it came about last night just when I’d been thinking “hmm, haven’t seen any spiders in here for a few days”… there it was in the room with me, just sitting by the back door. The only way this could’ve been worse would’ve been if the fucking thing were in my bedroom (I expect that to happen in the next few days). Housemate was asleep and I didn’t want to wake him (he doesn’t like spiders but he’s not phobic about them like me), so that left your hero here. Oy.
Now, all I could do was spray the cunt, cos DAMNED if I was getting close enough to something that size to hit it with a shoe like I would if it were a cockroach (which I also don’t like but I’m not phobic about those)… so that meant hitting it with a lot of Mortein sprayed from a safe distance. And, well, it did not want to die (I’m surprised *I* didn’t die before it). It took more minutes than I would’ve liked for it to finally do so, and it kept hanging on to the wall for dear life, until it finally dropped off… I didn’t see exactly where it landed, but I saw it again a few minutes later. It didn’t get far and would not be going any further. Whew.
I kept looking over to the spot where the corpse was to make sure it was still there, and I put it out this afternoon. For once, housemate had no part in disposing of one of our eight-legged friends, I did this myself all the way… if I wasn’t so repulsed by having to do so, I might feel proud of myself for coping. I’m still catching myself looking over at the spot where the corpse was (did it just now, in fact, after I wrote those words) to make sure it’s not still there or something. Maybe I’m not coping 100%, I don’t know.
Hi, I’m an arachnophobe. Just thought I should clarify that in case it wasn’t obvious.