Damned Spider...
Jul. 23rd, 2011 12:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsStormy is in tears. Her tarantula escaped its cage.
I told her if she doesn't find that damned bug by this evening, I'm going to the hardware store and buying a household fogger and nuking that entire wing of the house. As much as she loves having a spider, the rest of us are more than a little freaked out by the idea of that eight-legged freak crawling around us in the middle of the night. I know Kouryou-chan will not sleep until she knows that spider has been found and neutralized, somehow. Omaha and I might be able to sleep, but I doubt it.
I hated telling her that, but I don't have a choice. She suggested that she and Kouryou-chan could sleep in the basement tonight. I said, "What, abandon the house room by room until... when?"
"Until we find him!"
"What if we never find him? Should we just abandon the house forever?"
The other problem is that their bedroom is a mess. Although they keep it clean, it's a hoarder's paradise of childhood mementos and miscellany. And every time I go upstairs, I find her not working because it's all too much.
Dammit, I have work to do today. I took part of yesterday afternoon off to take the kids out to the park. Now I'm stuck thinking about that damned bug. And what if it's not in the back of the house? What if it's in the living room, or the kitchen? What then?
If she doesn't find it by 5pm, I'm using this stuff on it.
[Edit: The spider has been found. We are now triaging the situation.]
I told her if she doesn't find that damned bug by this evening, I'm going to the hardware store and buying a household fogger and nuking that entire wing of the house. As much as she loves having a spider, the rest of us are more than a little freaked out by the idea of that eight-legged freak crawling around us in the middle of the night. I know Kouryou-chan will not sleep until she knows that spider has been found and neutralized, somehow. Omaha and I might be able to sleep, but I doubt it.
I hated telling her that, but I don't have a choice. She suggested that she and Kouryou-chan could sleep in the basement tonight. I said, "What, abandon the house room by room until... when?"
"Until we find him!"
"What if we never find him? Should we just abandon the house forever?"
The other problem is that their bedroom is a mess. Although they keep it clean, it's a hoarder's paradise of childhood mementos and miscellany. And every time I go upstairs, I find her not working because it's all too much.
Dammit, I have work to do today. I took part of yesterday afternoon off to take the kids out to the park. Now I'm stuck thinking about that damned bug. And what if it's not in the back of the house? What if it's in the living room, or the kitchen? What then?
If she doesn't find it by 5pm, I'm using this stuff on it.
[Edit: The spider has been found. We are now triaging the situation.]
