In the olden days, when I used to clean windows with a scrim
I hated it when you had detailed a window and hadn't noticed you had squished a juicy spider with your scrim.
You only noticed it when you had buffed an opening light or a couple of panes of a georgian window and you have spread spider goo in little lines all over the pane of glass before you can stop yourself
Talking of spiders reminds me of a story:
I was cleaning the inside of a customers house and she squealed and jumped on the settee, pointing at a spider up in one of the corners of the room. It was a black one and only about as big as your thumbnail. I hitched up my belt and went to the rescue
Condescendingly telling her it is only a little spider, as she holds one hand over her mouth and flaps the other in a panicy way she points to the evil killer of ickle flies
I reach up to nudge it onto my finger, I didn't need to, the bloody thing jumped at me and attacked my finger
I think I screamed louder than the customer
After a protracted 'lounge safari' I managed to track him down, the crafty little sucker was lying in wait for me by the skirting board, front two legs raised, his monstrous mandibles gaping wide, exposed fangs dripping with lethal venom, but it was no match for this intrepid hunter, I plonked a glass on top of it
Slid a piece of paper under the glass and caged the arachnoid beast
If you poked a pencil down the glass it would leap at the pencil and attack it! It was well' ard'
I am told it may have been a wolf spider, in 20 odd years I have only come across a couple of them, they'll take out other bigger spiders no problem (sad I know, but I had to see how hard it really was
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I stuck an Earwig in with one, but earwigs know how to handle a spider, they grap the spider's abdomen with their pincers and hold their bodies out ramrod straight, the spider can't get at the Earwig, eventually the Earwig's pincer punctures the spiders soft abdomen......Its a tough life in the insect world
I don't actually know if the Wolf spider's fangs (the spider is jet black with a large body compared to its legs, it has a hard black carapace over its thorax, again, the spider is about the size of a large thumbnail) can actually get through human skin, they certainly look big enough. I wanted to let it have a go at biting me, but I kept bottling it, it would go to attack me and I would squeak like a baby and jerk my finger out the way
Remember children, don't rummage in the banana box at Tesco's, you never know what might be lying in wait for you
Mind how you go
Ian
