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[numberoneblind]

Things one does not expect to encounter while living in Scotland:

Tropical-sized spiders.

Maybe not quite... but still. Bigger than anything I've seen in Michigan, where it's actually WARM in the summer. Whatever they are, I assumed the dead one in the corner of the shower room when we moved in would be the last we saw of them, sort of pegging it as a summer thing, and therefore did NOT expect to find myself sharing the tiny, tiny bathroom this evening with a spider that covered a total surface area of 2 1/2" and had legs over 1/8" thick. I am not normally the kind of girl that shrieks about spiders, but the spider-size-to-room-size ratio was not in my favor here.

Although according to Evette, in my defense, "That's not a spider, it's a PONY."

And according to Laura, much to the chagrin of Evette and I, "Oh, I thought I vacuumed that up earlier! It must've escaped!"

Which means that either it was hardcore enough to survive a vacuum, or that this was ANOTHER one.

Obviously, these are some form of Radioactive Death Spider, and (sorry, Lenya) this one was not dealt with using any sort of mercy. Hopefully it will not grow two more inches in the night and crawl back up out of the toilet to greet me in the morning.

EDIT:// Thank you, Google Image Search. Whatever it was, it looked like this.

Comments

[rei-0.livejournal.com]

holy shit! spider!

[jeweledwidow.livejournal.com]

Meka and roommate Luna: *stare* ...AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
Luna: I'd have to...to find a male...a very large male that I had no emotional attachment to...so that way if the spider jumped him and ATE HIS BRAIN I wouldn't be as sad.
Meka: I'd just pass out :D

[hobo-al.livejournal.com]

DON'T LET IT EAT YOUR BUTT

[numberoneblind.livejournal.com]

I suspect that this is the kind of spider that eats BRAINS, not asses.

[combustinggnome.livejournal.com]

I hate you. You MUST have known that my masochistic nature would ensure that I would both read that entry AND look at the picture...I am scarred for life.

[numberoneblind.livejournal.com]

Tee hee. I was WAITING for you to read this...

[lhstrumpet.livejournal.com]

i did the same thing...

...my reaction was to pull my feet up on my chair as fast as humanly possible...lol

[chipmunkquinn.livejournal.com]

Tie a leash on one of those suckers and it could guard your house...and probably fetch the newspaper.

[numberoneblind.livejournal.com]

Quite likely... if I felt like getting that close to it with anything other than a squishing implement.

And hey. How's life? I haven't talked to you in like... a year.

[mrgreenjeans198.livejournal.com]

I like how the image title is "big_spider" very to the point.
but holy crap, that reminded me of the time I found myself showering with a scorpion.
just lift the toilet seat to check every time you poo, trust me, thats where spiders like to hang out, its dark, it's damp.

[numberoneblind.livejournal.com]

ewwww, scorpions. glad they don't have those here... I hope.

and yeah, I have noticed the damp = spiders correlation... all the ones we've found have been in either the shower room or the water closet (yes, water closet, it (http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y287/numberoneblind/wc.jpg) is not worthy of being called a bathroom as it lacks even a sink).

I'm actually okay with that, because it means they WOULDN'T like hanging out in my bed. Hopefully.

[mrgreenjeans198.livejournal.com]

oh wow, that's like what they have in japan, a toilet room. at one place i stayed they had a toilet room upstairs but you had to go downstairs to wash your hands... crazy. (i mean there was another toilet room right next to the shower room and sink room...)
but yea back to spiders, that spider doesn't look like a bed dweller, but dont tuck yr sheets too tight, and look before you dive yr feet in.

[numberoneblind.livejournal.com]

yeah, it's like that here -- two toilet rooms, and then there's a shower and sink room next to them. my first purchase in Scotland was a bottle of hand sanitizer for each toilet room, heh. because if someone's taking a shower you can't get at the sinks, and the kitchen one always has nasty dishes in...

[mrgreenjeans198.livejournal.com]

oh crazy foreigners, why don't they just be american like us...
(I hope you realize how sarcastic i am right now)

[r-macduff.livejournal.com]

Thanks for not outright posting the spider pic. You already gave me the heebie-jeebies. Now I can't go to Scotland unless it's the dead of winter, because I thought I would be safe from spiders there. Eeek.