[Evening]

Oooooooooooooh yucky, this is so gross I can barely even say it...
I don't know if any of yall remember the thread I made a few months ago about those big huntsman spiders we have here in Australia? Here's a picture of one-



So, I had one in my house recently. It was in my living room for quite a while, a month of two actually. I grew quite fond of it because it didn't really go anywhere. I used to even give it water by letting a few drops from a drink run down the wall near it, and it would walk over and drink it.
Then it went into my kitchen, and suddenly vanished. That was about 2 months ago.
Well... I found it... of all the places... IN MY MICROWAVE!!!!!!! Ooooh Lordy Lordy... It would have been in there all that time, as the last time I saw it was on the wall near my microwave. So for all this time, I have been cooking food in there every night, with this big spider sitting under the turntable plate, cooking away. I feel so sick right now. And they have this FACE, that's why I hate them so much, and when I just lifted the turntable to see if it was dirty the first thing I saw with this dead face staring at me... I can't even talk about this anymore, I'm feeling queezy. I can never use my microwave again. E-V-E-R.

[NuckingFutz]

ew! Glad you didn't name it or anything because then you would feel guilty and grossed out. Have fun shopping for a new microwave.

[Evening]

Actually... I named it Spidey...

[pegasus]

Was it still alive?

[MandiePoo]

Originally Posted by pegasus

Was it still alive?

Good Lord Pegasus What an awful thought LOL. Can you imagine being slowly cooked over and over? Horror movie in the making "Baked Spider Sundays" Rofl..

[lynn P.]

OMG that's a horrible looking spider. I'm not afraid of hardly anything but I'm fearful of spiders. Last week I came in from walking along the house and I walk into the kitchen and my 8 yr old screamed at the top of her lungs. Then she yells "SPIDER" and Bella was tap dancing all over. It was a little bigger than a quarter but moving soo fast......both girls were screaming and I was screaming and trying to step on it(sorry spider fans). I finally killed it, but I think it was on me and I walked in with it and that gave me the creeps.

We have bigger spiders up north called Wolf spiders - about the size of a tarantula but speedy. I also heard you have other spiders with a deadly bite - I can't remember the name but their fangs are very sharp. I've always been afraid of them since I was 3 and I've tried not to transfer my fear to my kids. My 8 did hold a tarantula when she was 6 at a birthday party - it's the fast moving ones we don't like. I don't blame you for being grossed out and I wouldn't be able to stand it in my house.

[Evening]

*shudder*, no it was dead, I think it's actually been in my microwave for two months, as I saw it every single day for months, then the last day I saw it was in my kitchen by the microwave. It would have either cooked or been run over by the turntable wheels, I only saw it for one second and was out the room, I didn't see how it had died. Either way, bleh!!! To think of all my food I've been cooking and eating with that in there! All my foods been infused with it!
There's another huntsman on my bedroom window frame that got squished while the window was being closed, it's been there for years and it makes me so sick I can't get rid of it, I feel awful thinking of it slowly being squashed to death.
These spiders just have this habit of getting themselves into places where they're just asking for it.

[lynn P.]

I remember the name now - Funnel Web Spider. I don't think I could handle living in a country where the spiders are big. My heart beats so fast, over any spider that's bigger than a quarter.

[NuckingFutz]

When I lived in Houston we had a banana tree that had black taurantulas. Invariably they would end up in our pool! My chore was to maintain the pool. Lots of furry spiders drowned and then netted by me.

[Yoda]

Poor spider. They take a risk when they enter our houses. A couple of years ago a lizard came in to visit. A very pretty lizard. Until he crawled under the Xbox and got squished.

[Rhiannonsmoon]

Evening,

Ya shouda put a trigger icon on this one! I opened it thinking you caught a kid with a finger up his nose or something, and promptly fainted (thank Goddess I'm sitting in the recliner), I have the worst spider phobia! I was bitten by a funnel web in 1979 and I've had a morbid fear of all spiders since, will not even approach the subject with anyone to therapise myself out of it....I reckon hypnosis is next...if it were me I wouldn't use the microwave again either.... Sell it and buy a new one. I don't use one so I don't have the possibility of it happening....eeewwwwwwwwwwwww

[Sabrina]

How unfortunate. Are you sure you won't be able to just sanitize the microwave? Or is it the thought of what happened? I clean under my turntable every third day, so no chance of creepy crawlies!

[sanityseeker]

Oh my that is quite the story! Allow me to offer some 'rational' thought. First, he would have died quickly so Spidey didn't suffer. Second, he could not have 'infused' anything. He would have been zapped of all microscopic moisture molicules within micro-seconds. Clean your microwave with some bleach and it will be as good as new.

I can appreciate that rational thought may not win the day on this one so I hope whatever you decide you are able to get the vision out of your head soon.

Queston.... If you found a dead fly in your microwave would you never use it again or would you just give it a good cleaning and forget about the fly? What makes the spider different aside from the relationship you'd established with it. If it is purely about the relation then maybe the microwave is a reminder of the lose and getting rid of it helps you cope with the grief.

I know.... I am overthinking this. My bad.

Spiders may startle me but they don't fighten me. In my culture spiders in the house are good luck. We get some pretty big creepy crawlies but they don't get by the cat for long. Grosses me out to see her eating one. YUK!

[Evening]

Originally Posted by Yoda

Poor spider. They take a risk when they enter our houses. A couple of years ago a lizard came in to visit. A very pretty lizard. Until he crawled under the Xbox and got squished.

I went to Darwin when I was a little tacker to visit my cousin and aunty, and there are all these geckos there, one of them was sitting in the crack of the cupboard door and when someone opened the cupboard- squish. It was really awful. I do feel bad for these critters when they get in these situations and come out second best.

Originally Posted by Rhiannonsmoon

Evening,

Ya shouda put a trigger icon on this one! I opened it thinking you caught a kid with a finger up his nose or something, and promptly fainted (thank Goddess I'm sitting in the recliner), I have the worst spider phobia! I was bitten by a funnel web in 1979 and I've had a morbid fear of all spiders since, will not even approach the subject with anyone to therapise myself out of it....I reckon hypnosis is next...if it were me I wouldn't use the microwave again either.... Sell it and buy a new one. I don't use one so I don't have the possibility of it happening....eeewwwwwwwwwwwww

I'm sooooo sorry! I was thinking I should have put a trig on it myself because every time I come on this thread my heart jumps out of my chest, I should be expecting it seeing as I made it!

Originally Posted by Sabrina

How unfortunate. Are you sure you won't be able to just sanitize the microwave? Or is it the thought of what happened? I clean under my turntable every third day, so no chance of creepy crawlies!

No I want to get rid of it, I can't even look in there to get the spider out now! My microwave's pretty dodge anyway, from the outside it's fine but the inside's not looking too good after I had one or 2 incidents in the past. When I moved out of home being 17 I didn't exactly take good care of things. But if I can get myself a free washing machine, I'm sure I can find myself a microwave too!

[sanityseeker]

oh... the spider is still in there! Yup... sounds like a new microwave will be the only solution.

I am with you about not liking to see critters hurt. Give I chance I will chase my cat away from a spider to give it a chase to get away. I will even chase flies out the window rather then kill them.

[Evening]

Originally Posted by sanityseeker

Queston.... If you found a dead fly in your microwave would you never use it again or would you just give it a good cleaning and forget about the fly? What makes the spider different aside from the relationship you'd established with it.

HUUUGE difference! Hunstmans about 100 times bigger than flies! 1000 times bigger! Okay I'm over exaggerating a little there, but, huge difference!

oh... the spider is still in there! Yup... sounds like a new microwave will be the only solution.

I am with you about not liking to see critters hurt. Give I chance I will chase my cat away from a spider to give it a chase to get away. I will even chase flies out the window rather then kill them.

I am the same, I try to always get critters out rather than squish them, although sometimes I accidentally end up squishing them in the process...

[lynn P.]

I have compassion for most creatures too but I usually don't have a container handy when I encounter spiders or centipeeds(spelling wrong) and I don't want them wondering around. I feel guilty but I'm a spider killer. I've been afraid of them since I was 2 and a black one crawled up my red corduroy pants.

[Evening]

I finally summoned the courage to take another look in there, very apprehensively of course, my initial panic may have caused my mind to slightly over exaggerate the actual size of the spider by, a lot, but it's still in there and it's still dead and it's still bleh.

[lynn P.]

Originally Posted by Evening

I finally summoned the courage to take another look in there, very apprehensively of course, my initial panic may have caused my mind to slightly over exaggerate the actual size of the spider by, a lot, but it's still in there and it's still dead and it's still bleh.

I don't think you over exaggerated - of course that's advice from a person who's afraid of spiders lol. All I can say is, if that was me, it probably would have given me a heart attack. Even though common sense would tell me it was dead, my 1st reaction would be based on, "yikes it's alive". Like I said before I wouldn't be able to live in an area with big spiders.

[lonegael]

We havethese tarantulas in CA, pretty ugly, and they can get pretty bif. I rmember waking up one morning after i went to visit my fiolks and slept at thir house, throwing asde the blankets and there was a tarantula next to my leg, and I kid you not, both it and I jumped! I'm sure if I were another spider i would have heard it screaming AAAAAAAAA! Grosss! A human! In MY bed! Get it out!!!!!!! Found it again later in the bathroom and evacuated it to the backyard

[lynn P.]

Originally Posted by lonegael

We havethese tarantulas in CA, pretty ugly, and they can get pretty bif. I rmember waking up one morning after i went to visit my fiolks and slept at thir house, throwing asde the blankets and there was a tarantula next to my leg, and I kid you not, both it and I jumped! I'm sure if I were another spider i would have heard it screaming AAAAAAAAA! Grosss! A human! In MY bed! Get it out!!!!!!! Found it again later in the bathroom and evacuated it to the backyard

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"evacuated it to the backyard" - how did you do this? Did you put it in a container?

[Elana05]

(((Evening)))

Sorry you had to deal with this. Clean out your microwave very well and just don't think about it. Keep it out of your head and it'll go away soon.

Don't forget, many of those guys are beneficial to keep other bugs away.

Still, I woulda freaked out too. I hate having the big ones anywhere near me.

[lonegael]

Well, Lynn, I lassoed it, drugged it with a dart gun, then dragged it out twith the help of the neighbors, after which we attached a radio transmitter to it...
I used a jar actually, which I plopped over the top of it and slid a piece of cardboard over the mouth (or under, as I did it whilethe jar was still on the ground). The I flipped it right side up and used the cardboard for a lid as I took the beast out to the yard and released it under a tree. It was VERY glad to get out of there.

[lynn P.]

Originally Posted by lonegael

Well, Lynn, I lassoed it, drugged it with a dart gun, then dragged it out twith the help of the neighbors, after which we attached a radio transmitter to it...
I used a jar actually, which I plopped over the top of it and slid a piece of cardboard over the mouth (or under, as I did it whilethe jar was still on the ground). The I flipped it right side up and used the cardboard for a lid as I took the beast out to the yard and released it under a tree. It was VERY glad to get out of there.

Thanks lonegael for the explanation lol. Luckily Tarantulas don't move very fast, at least I don't think they do. Speaking of spiders I just encountered one a few seconds ago in my bedroom closet. It was peeking out from under the bifold doors so I got the central vacuum, except I didn't think I got it....so I took out the items that were on the floor(yes time for a cleaning) and shook them on the porch. Now I'm wondering if it's still around because I didn't visually see it get sucked into the vacuum. Now I'm thinking of spraying inside the house - I don't think it's toxic to humans since it's made from the the Crysanthimum Flower. I can't stand anything bigger than a dime size inside the house.

[Nemo39122]

poor spidey.....

I used to not hate spiders too much, but then a friend of mine often described why he's afraid of them. Now I think about all the things he said when I see a spider and they creep me out....lol