10.04.2003
we had a pretty big spider keeping watch on our front door for a while. i'd say it's about as big as a quarter, and he has spun a massive web by our porch light. today, we decided to take action. we didn't have any raid or bug spray handy, so we went with... tough-actin' tinactin (my new favorite spray). the tinactin didn't faze the spider, but if he no longer suffered from athlete's foot. next up... 409. i switched the spray nozzle to a stream nozzle and soaked the spider until he was dizzy. he was still hanging on to his web, so this is when we decided to physically knock him down and light him on fire. (i hope peta isn't reading this.)
this is where it gets interesting. i had a pizza box to knock him down and cal was standing ready with one of those bbq lighters. i took the box and tried to knock the spider to the ground, but i was unsuccessful. i had hit the spider, but he didn't end up on the ground. we didn't want an angry spider crawling into our house, so we were looking around for the thing when cal finally spotted it. it was hanging by its web about a foot above our heads.
cal proceeded to lighting the spider on fire step. he took the lighter and lit the spider, but it fell onto his hand. i kid you not, he screamed and ran away. the spider ended up on the ground, so we continued to try to light it on fire. we couldn't get him to burn right away, so we used some lighter fluid. (i REALLY hope peta isn't reading this.) he burned up and smelled pretty bad. what did we do to get rid of the odor? that's right... BOOM! tough-actin' tinactin.
this is where it gets interesting. i had a pizza box to knock him down and cal was standing ready with one of those bbq lighters. i took the box and tried to knock the spider to the ground, but i was unsuccessful. i had hit the spider, but he didn't end up on the ground. we didn't want an angry spider crawling into our house, so we were looking around for the thing when cal finally spotted it. it was hanging by its web about a foot above our heads.
cal proceeded to lighting the spider on fire step. he took the lighter and lit the spider, but it fell onto his hand. i kid you not, he screamed and ran away. the spider ended up on the ground, so we continued to try to light it on fire. we couldn't get him to burn right away, so we used some lighter fluid. (i REALLY hope peta isn't reading this.) he burned up and smelled pretty bad. what did we do to get rid of the odor? that's right... BOOM! tough-actin' tinactin.
