What do you do if there's a huge spider/bug in your room?

[Jon C 229]

Grab the nearest magazine, roll it up and proceed to wipe the little shit off the face of the planet.

[Snow Frostflame 3,568]

oh you know I would be very rational about the situation

[_GLaDOS_ 102]

Spider:

1. Scream

2. Grab a hard cover book

3. Hit it at least 15 times

4. Pick it up with a paper towel

5. Feed it to my cat

[Taviscratch 453]

The flat where I'm living is a pretty shitty place (not too bad for a student letting mind you) and it gets spiders with tiny bodies and extremely long legs which my girlfriend HATES. They're really fast too so they are impossible to catch. I usually just squash them with a shoe or something. One day I found a nest of them behind the toilet and didn't know what to do. I couldn't get round to squash them and didn't want to disturb the nest in case I just ended up scattering spiders around the flat so I sprayed the thing with bleach. It was pretty nasty but effective. We also have a damp problem. The flat is full of dehumidifiers but still every now and again we'll find a silverfish which I either squash or spray with bleach depending on their location.

[SCS 7,534]

I'd crush it with a shoe or any other reasonable object within my close proximity and then dispose of its remains. I dislike killing, even spiders and insects, but I have a right to defend myself and my family, so anything like that I catch in my house is dead.

[Tom Snyder 4,112]

So i got a joke for this topic:

 

"What's the last thing a spider hears before it dies? 

 

Edited March 21, 2015 by Candy Star

[EpicEnergy 23,182]

I'd usually smack it with a shoe if it was small enough to not spread it's juice all over the place. If it wasn't small enough, then I'd catch it with a cup and release it far outside my house like I did with a large millipede once.

[TBD 17,254]

Capture it, kill it,

(last part not really 

it’s strange though I like big spider and won’t kill it, but if it’s small I kill it..

[DixonTheAdversary 1,632]

I go and grab a paper towel, pick it off the wall and squish it.

[Early Sunsets 2,106]

I get the biggest, heaviest book I can find, and just kind of do this.

[Lucky Bolt 35,062]

 

That is all.                                        

[CypherHoof 26,482]

Depends on if it is Ocellus?

[Dreambiscuit 9,640]

Assuming there isn't anyone else handy that I can press into service as my personal exterminator, I'll usually give the crawly little monstrosity an up-close intro to the sports section of the newspaper. If it's in a hard to reach place, I spray it with hairspray until it slows down and then a send it into it's next life by whatever utensil I can reach it with.  

[IronM17 5,353]

When there is a spider or an insect in my room, I take some sort of box, catch it, go to the balcony and let it free. When it is to cold outside (like in winter were spiders often are in the house), I also go to the cellar or the attic and let it free there.

[Rainbow Cloud 17,925]

The spiders and bugs here aren't dangerous so I just leave them be.

[Splashee 28,563]

I would jump very high in the air, scream. And then of course deny it, tell how brave I was, and how I slaughtered the beast!

[LegoDashie 1,806]

i would freak out ! and get a shoe and smash it !!!

[Kyoshi Frost Wolf 41,350]

These days I try to not kill them unless I freak out too much. I get a big fight or flight response when dealing with say, a spider larger than a house spider. I tense up and usually I ddn't know what to do. Other bugs I try to catch them and then release them outside. If I can. I feel quite bad these days if I do anything else..

[Emerald Claus 24,849]

I run the hell away screaming my ass off 

[Lulaypp 2,555]

I generally let spiders do what it wants. Gush over it maybe? I like having them around. But I sometimes have to put it outside since my mother don't really like them in the house.

Bugs though, it depends on which. Cockroaches, I kill them and throw them. Beetles, I either ignore them or put them outside. Moths (are they bugs?), I kill them since their caterpillar keeps on eating the garlic.

[Kronos the Revenant 1,971]

I dont kill any bugs in my house, except ants and mosquitoes without hesitation. Otherwise, the only reason i would kill a bug would be at my mother’s request. Whenever we do gardening, i love peering into the little ecosystems of arthropods in our backyard and front yard. Bugs are fascinating. 

[Treeglow Flicker 13,619]

Bugs and insects I mostly leave to their own affairs, unless it's something that's gotten itself stuck indoors. Big spiders, I catch and release outside in a place where they can survive.

[BlankFlank777 199]

Bugs have as much of a right to live in "my" room as i do and they leave me alone so why would i bother them, especially in a violent way? If they need help getting out I'll guide them out. Otherwise i leave them alone. It pisses me off when people kill bugs who are just minding their own business.

Edited April 15, 2020 by BlankFlank777

[Stardust 641]

I don't usually care that much but depends what sort it is. Might get my mum to release it outside.

[Evil Pink One 13,506]

I actually like small spiders but I don't like the big ones who has a potential of killing me or seeing their big face...small face cute...big face nope