What do you when you see a spider in your sights?

[matthew123]

I see today the BBC are reporting we can expect more spiders crawling around this autumn than usual..

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8273960.stm

I'm not entirely surprised having seen quite a few crawling across my laminate flooring in recent months (they were bloody giants!). As I see it there are four variations available in how to deal with the spider: -

1) Put your feet up on the sofa to avoid contact!

2) Go and pick them up and take them to the garden / toilet etc

3) Ignore them and continue watching the telly

4) Grab the yellow pages and drop from a great height

What is your method of dealing with the spider!?

[Atila Reincarnate]

Nothing, totally harmless creatures.

[Izodia]

1) whilst hinting that my other half might like to do 4). Then I tell him how mean he is to kill a harmless creature.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

2), but I don't think they're fussy where they pee.

[sophiesofa]

If it's in the living room I would lift my feet up. If it was in my bedroom I wouldn't be able to sleep because I'd think it would crawl in my ear so I would squash it.

[Ted Max]

Redouble my efforts to fight for national independence.

(and supremacy over lots of other competing Scottish nobility, but we'll not go into that here)

[Keef]

I admit I'm not a big fan, but I don't freak out either. I'd usually leave well alone, or if I needed to get them out of the bath, I'd usually do the old paper under the pint glass routine.

[Asset]

If they are big hairy ones I put them outside as Mr Asset doesn't like them. I've got a few little ones I keep in the sitting room to catch the fruit flies.

[Ted Max]

I know an old lady who did that.

She's dead, of course.

[woofmarkthedog]

I dress up in my huge spider outfit and "scare" the f*ck out of them.

Oh you should see them run, their face is a picture.

W**F

[Strawbs]

Definitely option 3 and have a quiet giggle to myself about how small they are in comparison to the spiders in my homeland of Australia yet the better half is scared out of her wits!!

[Keef]

I came to an understanding with a huntsman in sydney, we just stayed out of each others way.

[Brendan]

Bit off topic but I knocked down a shed in the back garden this summer and found loads of those tube web spiders which apparently came over from New Zealand on a holiday and decided to stay.

[computedshorty]

?

[HonaloochieB]

I put The Cure's Lullaby on at full volume, that gets both the spider and me out of the house.

[Kells]

2 for spiders - they eat flies, so all good in my book. But I might try HB's suggestion for frogs that the cat brings in. Spiders I can cope with though.

[Jeremy]

4. I kill them. Sorry, I really can't stand them.

[bonniebird]

3, unless its in my bedroom and 2 if it is!

[*Tee*]

4,i'm such a big wimp, i cant even look at a spider without freaking out. I wouldnt kill it with a book though, because then i'll have to throw away the book! i use a hoover and just go for it.

there are loads of loads of them in my garden, one has even made its home right outside my back door,its web is huge!! never seen anything like it scary! the web is from the roof all the way down the house till the path, and thats just the anchor points.

Once i borrowed my hoover to my friend who promised to return it right away but didnt,so i had to invent another genius way of getting rid of spiders, its raid spray the blue one, works a treat!

*Tee*

[sanity girl]

Get a cup/glass/bowl, place over spider, slide piece of card underneath to trap spider, chuck spider out of window as quickly as possible

I've already done this with four monsters in the past two weeks, and this after we had about 20 come out of the cupboards while our flat was being decorated!

[skidmarks]

I was out collecting conkers yesterday with my 6 year old niece to put around her bedroom as apparently they keep spiders away. She is sh[t scared of spiders.

[daizie]

It depends on the size of it . If it was big and hairy i'd probably throw up and call the fire brigade or someone entirely inappropriate.

By the way, does anyone know what to do and who to call if a dog gets run over and you cant pick it up to take it to a vets yourself ?

[Michael Palaeologus]

I was adopted by a big hairy spider last winter. It lived under the sofa but came out every evening when the heating came on and sat by the radiator.

Sadly it didnt move quickly enough during one of my rare Dyson moments.

[bigbadwolf]

"It depends on the size of it . If it was big and hairy i'd probably throw up and call the fire brigade or someone entirely inappropriate."

Really Daizie? I'd have thought you'd grown accustomed to things/insects/anatomy/cocks that grew excited when disturbed by curious touching.

"By the way, does anyone know what to do and who to call if a dog gets run over and you cant pick it up to take it to a vets yourself?"

Call a local Chinese takeaway to collect the corpse. They'll know what to do.

[daizie]

Ok thanks . I only ask because when a human gets run over an ambulance is called. I wondered if there was a service like this for dogs and cats . Honestly .