Egad! Where is the HUGH spider I smashed the other night?

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

There was a spider the size of my head crouching next to my shoes in the garage the other evening, and I smashed it with a flip-flop (or so I thought). I was in a hurry to do something and didn't dispose of the corpse. Now it's GONE. I hope my husband threw it away; otherwise it may be resurrected, hiding in my shoes and waiting to exact revenge!

[KG]

1. LOOSER!

[puerco-bellies]

2. Behind You!!!!!!

Sorry couldn't resist.

[Odonata]

3. You're probably spreading her eggs all around...

with each and every flippity flop! That's what you get for squashing creatures smaller than you with your shoes.

Thbbbbbt!:P

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

6. Oh, that reminds me of a gross story

I remember a party we were having on the patio when I was a kid. A giant spider came crawling across the patio, and my mom dropped her shoe on it. HUNDREDS of spider babies came running out, and I ran for my life!

[khashka]

4. You Moran!

That was Ann Coulter! Not a spider!

Khash.

[matcom]

5. recuperating

in you bed

[Wetzelbill]

7. ugh....I'm creeped out now... nt

[Mistress Quickly]

8. Something probably ate it...

Ants can make short work of dead bugs. So will cats if they're hungry.

[enlightenment]

9. Probably hanging out with the gigantic

black bug (probably a cockroach, but I didn't bother to get a close look) that dropped off my ceiling and landed on my shoulder while I was reading in bed last night. After I levitated off the bed, the bug (at least 2" long and half as wide) fell off -- with some not so gentle persuasion from me -- and ran under? the bed. Couldn't find it. Eventually returned to bed and resumed reading. Moments later the d&%n thing was on my shoulder again. This time it got in my hair before I airlifted it with the book.
It scuttled down the side of the bed.
I STILL don't know where it is.
yuck.
yuck.
yuck.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

10. ARRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!

How did you escape having a heart attack??

[enlightenment]

11. Not sure I didn't -- my roommate thought I was having

some sort of seizure, as I stood on my bed (narrowly missed being decapitated by my ceiling fan) brushing frantically at my head and nightclothes, hopping from foot to foot. She didn't hear the first episode, but did hear the book (or was it the bug?? ewwh) hit the wall between our rooms the second time.

Added to the current black widow spider infestation we are having, I'm as jumpy as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs.

[warrens]

14. Thet thar was probably a palmetto bug

Assuming you live in the south. Oh, hint about black widows. They build their nests LOW, below knee height. In dark corners. I speak from experience.

[enlightenment]

15. Unfortunately, I live in Las Vegas --

unfortunate in many respects, but on this subject -- I've never seen a palmetto bug (translation: huge, flying cockroach. I don't care what the entomologists say) here. We do have monster regular cockroaches; low, black, and wide as houses. Nasty things.

Thanks for the tips on the widows. People swear they don't live here. HA. They just need to come to my house. We are on a search and destroy mission this week -- foundations, nooks and crannies. Found one the size of the ball of my thumb (the whole spider, not the abdomen) hanging off the limb of the tree next to my window. Knocked her out of the tree, she chased me (okay, I'm a chicken) a quarter of the way across the yard; I got angry and stepped on her. ick.

I usually have a live and let live policy on insects, but it's gotten out of hand -- and I'm bigger and have opposable thumbs (meaning I can hold the insecticide and spray it at the same time).

In terms of my chances for reincarnation, I rarely rise above invertebrate anyway, so if this puts me back to one-celled organism, so be it. I just can't take anymore creepy crawlies sharing my bed.
:hide:

[texas1928]

12. I have to ask...

What is a HUGH spider?

:shrug:

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

13. I guess it's a "moran" thing

People jokingly call huge things "HUGH" to make fun of freepers. (I think that's the origin, anyway)