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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-15-05 01:09 PM
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There is a spider lost in the mess on my desk.
He keeps jumping out at me and I am afraid to move anything lest I either crush him or he crawls across me.
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Teaser Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-15-05 01:11 PM
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1. Here's what I would do:
burn the desk, contents and all. That way

1) you won't crush the spider
2) he'll never crawl across you
3) you'll start a fire.

Everybody wins.
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-15-05 01:11 PM
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3. Well, it is a bit cold in here
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jeff30997 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-15-05 01:13 PM
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4. Hey Teaser,we had the same idea.
Check below and check the time.
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jeff30997 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-15-05 01:11 PM
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2. BURN THE DESK !!!
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Teaser Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-15-05 02:30 PM
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10. Great minds think a like but
so do little minds...less to think about, you see... ;)
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kedrys Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-15-05 01:18 PM
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5. Whatever you do, don't kill the spider
It's bad luck!

Go ahead and torch the desk though. He'll jump off and go somewhere safe, and you'll be all toasty. :D
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Igel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-15-05 01:19 PM
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6. Got a taser? n/t
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Cassandra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-15-05 01:23 PM
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7. Give him a map!
Would you like to be lost on that desk?
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-15-05 06:29 PM
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15. Meh. the desk is no different than the rest of my so scary messy house
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-15-05 01:24 PM
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8. Update on the arachnid
Felt a tickle on my ankle.. he ran down my sock... i scooped him onto a binder of pokemon and yu*gi*oh cards.. then flipped him out on the deck.

Unles, of course, that was entirely different spider. Looked a bit smaller than I recalled the one up here onthe top of the desk. But maybe he was just scared and scrunching his legs together?
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ComerPerro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-15-05 02:31 PM
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11. So apparently you aren't afraid of spiders
If you so calmy reported him "walking down your leg".

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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-15-05 02:59 PM
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12. I am actually rather afraid of them, but this guy was a small wolfie.. I
can deal with them slightly better than the big bulbous-butt web-spinners.. as long as they are nickel sized or smaller.

after that they all make me scream.
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Karenina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-15-05 03:14 PM
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13. Funny! I wonder how common
it is among us arachniphobes to be able to cope up to a certain size.
I'm cool (or at least reasonably calm) up to the size of a nickel. Larger than that, I tend to lose it.
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-15-05 03:19 PM
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14. We have some that live in our window.. little jumpy stripey ones that are
darling.. I almost don't count them as spiders at all~ *l*
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jackelope72 Donating Member (726 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-15-05 01:33 PM
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9. That's okay.
There's a DESK lost in the mess on my desk.

What you need to do is treat your desk like a big game of pick-up sticks. Move one thing at a time, top item first, until you come to the spider.
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Mutley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-15-05 06:44 PM
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16. This frightening gal was living in my neighbors back yard
until the renovators cleared the jungle away.

The Spider


The Jungle


The entire backyard looked like this.

Now it looks like this:

Except the house is a little further along...

But I'm getting off topic here.
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