YOU WILL NEVER BELIEVE IT!!!
Mommyof3 wrote: This morning was going great until my son came and said, "Mommy there is a big scary spider in your room"...making the hand motions of something crawling. Usually I don't believe things like that because he will say it about anything...a piece of grass laying the wrong way...etc.
So...for some reason I decide to take him seriously and go to the hall closet and get out one of my flip flops...yeah right...it never occured to me that a flip flop wasn't going to kill anything...so I head back to my bedroom and walk in and say..."Okay, show me" so he goes to my closet (it's a walk-in) and points next to the filing cabinet.
Well, it doesn't really look real at first and it almost just looks like part of a sleeve of a sweater fell off and is crumpled on the floor. You know how long it takes to process when something is just unbelieveable. So...stupid me I throw the flip flop at it thinking if it's real, we'll find out. Well...it starts to run...I slam the door shut and am screaming to my oldest two to run followed by the s-word. I stuff a comforter at the base of the door and run and slam my bedroom door and stuff another comforter at the base of that one followed by our wicker hamper and a couple of couch pillows.
Well, I try to call DH at work to tell him to come home NOW and that he has to take his lunch to kill this thing. The whole time it's ringing I'm thinking about how I am going to tell him that I am going to live in a hotel until he finds this thing and kills it and then I'm moving back to Birmingham. Well...no answer from him or his office so I'm guessing they're in a meeting. So, I call our leasing office and tell the girl about the spider and she just blows me off saying that the pest control company only comes out once a month. I was like HECK NO! You are sending someone now!!!
Okay, let me just say now that the only thing I can compare the size of this thing to is a terantula. It had HAIR all over it and HUGE legs. And I'm not one for exaggerating. I told the office girl this and I was surprised that someone knocked at my door 5 minutes later. Well, one of the sales guys came in and got a couple of paper towels and went back to my room. Well, I thought he killed it, but NOOOOOOOOO he picked it up and expained that it was a Wolf Spider and that they are "House Spiders" and that they get to the size of a terantula, but I wasn't exaggerating...it really was. He had it in the papertowels and said he was going to let it go outside. I let him out and shut the door and then I opened it up again and screamed..."You're not going to let it out near me???? Are you????" and he said he was going to let it out across the complex...those people are really lucky....He said that they like to be indoors, but aren't mostly.
I am FREAKING OUT! I WANT TO MOVE BACK TO B'HAM!!!!!!!!
Calimama replied: I would have passed out. 
moped replied: Ok, whats up with all the spider stories - ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
I am so scared of spiders you wouldn't believe it!
TheOaf66 replied:  sorry but I found that amusing
ihave4kids replied: Eeek!!!! Yea,I wouldn't have killed it either. I HATE spiders!!-even bugs. My dh always says,"why do you have to be such a woman?!"
whatever,dude 
Calimama replied:
 What exactly does he want you to be? And for the record my sister is tougher than most guys I know. I guess I skipped that trait.
gr33n3y3z replied: lol I would have left home
mummy2girls replied: ewwwww .... i would of flipped and called marcus to come home from work to kill it...
Mommyof3 replied:
My DH did too...he just called me...I swear it's not funny!!!! I am still freaking out! LOL
Mommyof3 replied:
I considered that...and Caroline was asleep in her crib two rooms away and I grabbed her because I was thinking if this is what's in my room...they could be all over the house!
Danalana replied: There's no telling what I would have done....I HATE spiders. I'm seriously more afraid of them than snakes. I probably woul dhave gotten the important things out of the house and then burned it down...
tammyhopkins replied: OMG I would have passed out i am sure. I have anxiety attacks if a spider gets to close to me i have actually blacked out and cannot remember freaking out fromone. I almost threw one of my staff down a flight of stair s to get away from one. And let me tell you they are no where near the size you just explained. I have shivers up my spine now .
amynicole21 replied: Oh My God  I think I'd pack my bags.
Mommyof3 replied:
You are so funny...but if I would have thought of that myself, I would have done it. I am still skiddish about the whole thing. I am scared to go in the back rooms right now and I have all the kids in the den with me. lol
Danalana replied: I'd have already packed everything and had it ready when DH got home...
grapfruit replied: I had no clue they got that big.... 
Calimama replied:
punkeemunkee'smom replied: I have seen some pretty big ones but never turantula sized!!! Yep I would have cried!  I am sorry! I don't want to freak you out but make sure to shake out your shoes especially if your house has been vacant for sometime before you moved in(you just moved right?) IF you have a feed store near you can buy pyrethran (sp?I will check) and mix it in a pumpup sprayer and spray your closets and such...I mix it so strong sometimes I am probably violating EPA regulations but I can't stand it when we start getting little spiders on the porch or in the house cuz I know the big ones will follow!
momtoMegan&Alyxandria replied: Forget packing the bags. I would have had the kids in the car on my way out of state. DH can catch up later.  I hate spiders!!!! I have shivers up and down my spine.
grapfruit replied: Don't ask me why but I researched this.
Wolf spiders seem to only get about 1 - 2 inches long. Your spider sounds bigger then that....How big was it if you remember?
A&A'smommy replied: OMG I would have been freaking also!!!!!!
HuskerMom replied: I would've freaked. I have the heebie jeebies now!
Kentuckychick replied: Yep you're right... I don't believe it! I won't believe it...
Spiders? What are spiders?
There are no such things as spiders!
maestra replied: We have had like 6 of those in our house! They are called giant house spiders, and I accidentally stepped on one with my bare feet. Then it went running. (and they are fast!) I thought it was a lizard, so I went back to see it, and it was a spider. I had the heebeeedegeebees for like a week!
redplaydoh replied:
Sorry but this part had me cracking up...
boyohboyohboy replied: just reading this makes my stomach tighten! i to saw one of the these about a month ago in our basement, it was right near our washer, and i was doing laundry, i thought it had to be fake it was so large! i grabbed a close basket and threw it also, and it ran, i grabbed jake and ran upstairs to call dh to come home from work to kill it, and well he laughed and said he wasnt coming home to kill a spider, so i said well then, i am not going to the basement to do laundry until you find it, so i didnt have to do laundry for a month!
and when he did find it, he was freaked out too, but he killed it.
i know just how you feel
grapfruit replied:
OMG it took a MONTH to find it?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!? How did you sleep at night?!?!?!?!?!
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holley79 replied: We use to have those huge spiders in MD. I'm sick and I know it but I thought they were cool. I like spiders and don't mind them when I know what kind they are. there are certain ones I will kill because they are poisionous.
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