8 legged freak...

What is it about spiders that freak people out!?

To set the scene...

Last Friday, I attended my second day of an economics course (for those who have done this will know that 9 hours of Macroeconomics is pretty heavy).. I returned home to get ready for a 21st. My brother's best friend GayLord (happily named hahaha JKM)...

Anyway SweetPea, Screech (explanation will follow) and I were sitting in the living room watching a bit of rugger - discussing a digs' issue... when SweetPea out of the blue tells Screech "Don't look at the wall and go to your room..." Screech complies straight away - I guess there is some sort telepathy between the women in our digs (note that I am male - and I %^%# all clue to what was transpiring) . So I take a look over my left shoulder and there it is a Wolf Spider (bout the size of Microsoft Mouse - BG I want advertising royalties pls :) ) in the middle of the wall.

SweetPea moves into Screech's room, and I stand up - now I am not a fan of anything that crawls or slithers (yes my friends would ask why? some girls I have been involved with fit into that category - hence why I'm not a fan.. :P ) - anyhoo I'm thinking what the hell to do...

SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

Screech lets one out - I tell you I must have jumped 5 ft...

Anyhow - I opened the doors to the patio and walked around to open the front door... my plan to move the freak out one way or the other... grabbing a curtain rail - like a joust (Knight in shining armour like) I manage to coax the freak outside... Mission complete... Girls return to normal, spider has disappeared - double R heads to 21st..

Meanwhile that little SOB has snuck into SweetPea's room... SP had headed off to the 'Haten so she was unaware of this little varmint till Monday...

Arriving home from work that afternoon, SweetPea informs me of the said varmint hiding above her door... after close inspection Spidey seemed to have expired.. enter my trusted joust for a little confirmation.. You'd think that a "little" spider would be scared of two humanoids with a big stick - negative, the possum impersonating spider attacked the stick.. crazy crazy crazy!

Anyway SweetPea at this stage had moved to safety - her bathroom and I had decided it was time to bring out some alternative measures... namely hurling slippers, slip slops and one times shoe at Spidey to get him to move...

No Luck...

In fairness I wasn't sure what to do ... and we decided waiting for Jem (the other guy in the house) to see if he could provide some valued input...

I had to leave for hockey, but they managed to catch this beast you had for the better part of an hour kept us rather busy...

It was rather amusing to see +-150Kg's of human (SP and I) held at ransom by probably 0.5kg of spider :)