To the Spider outside my office window

Every day, you grow a little bigger. Soon you will be in serious Shelob territory.

Every day, you do something yet more gruesome. It is like you have a plan to distract me from work. For hours, I will think: “don’t look at the spider … don’t look at the spider …”; invariably, when I do glance in your direction, you are busy running your hairy legs over some poor bug caught in your web. Today, I nearly barfed at the sight of a bee still writhing slowly as you sucked its guts out; a second fly watched, paralized and helpless, partially wrapped in silk, as you demonstrated its eventual fate.

How the fuck did you crawl up 47 floors anyway? Couldn’t you have chosen a place closer to the ground? Preferably one outside someone else’s window?

And where do you dissapear when it is stormy out or really windy? Yet you are always back again in exactly the same spot.

Just be glad these windows don’t open.

Oh, grow some pubes.

I’m not sure how that would help.

I don’t want to fuck the thing (although it’s almost big enough), even if it was biologically possible. :stuck_out_tongue:

You pitted this? Grow some pubes.

Wait … are y’all saying the OP should make the spider a merkin?

All I could see in your post was:

“I have this amazing window view from my office 47 floors above the earth and a cool spider to watch…”

I’ll trade your spider for my angry nest of hornets. And people woner why I keep my blinds closed.

Some air current just happened to put it outside your window.

Someone must write an article on “the mental association of bored Internet geeks between spiders and pubic hairs”. :smiley:

That is totally cool, and somethink I had never heard of before.

My little monster is a parachuting attack spider!

I like him or her a little better now. :slight_smile:

:eek:

In that case I would be glad my window didn’t open!

Just a helpful FYI-

Angry hornets can fly despite being set on fire.

There has just got to be a story behind that! :eek:

Haven’t you guys ever read “Charlotte’s Web”??

And to those pitting the OP, SHEEEESH!!!

Some of us HATE spiders. So it was a little mild. I’d be creeped out too. And if the window opened, that’d be one squashed spider.

It’s a LOT more interesting than some of the bbq pit fare that’s been around lately!!!

In the interests of fairness …

To the Lawyer sitting inside the office window

Every day, you grow a little bigger. Soon you will be in serious fat slob territory.

Every day, you do something yet more gruesome. It is like you have a plan to distract me from work. For hours, I will think: “don’t look at the lawyer … don’t look at the lawyer …”; invariably, when I do glance in your direction, you are busy running your hairy fingers over some poor Statement of Claim caught on your computer screen. Today, I nearly barfed at the sight of a contract still writhing slowly as you sucked its guts out; a second contract watched, paralized and helpless, in your intray, as you demonstrated its eventual fate.

How the fck did you crawl up 47 floors anyway? Couldn’t you have chosen a place closer to the ground? Preferably one inside someone else’s window?

And where do you dissapear when the lights go out? Yet you are always back again in exactly the same spot.

Just be glad these windows don’t open.

I have just spent three hours fighting a fly infestation. Annoying, flitty, stupid little vermin. 100s of them.

Spiders are our allies in the battle against the massed fly forces. Touch that spider and I will be obliged to launch a retaliatory strike.

You have been warned!

LOL!! This is true I guess! Somehow, one of the bags of fruit I brought home this weekend contained enough fruitflies to start an invasion of my home.

Normally my attitude toward spiders has been “as long as you stay OUTSIDE, I’ll let you live”.

Now, it’s “as long as you stay outside my BED (one reason I hate them, they always find me and bite me when I’m sleeping), I’ll let you live”.

::snerk:: This has got me in stitches! Okay, I’ll keep the hornets. You win!

Not sure what lno might have done, but I think I’ve posted my husband’s story about it here before. As a kid he was told to go deal with the wasp (? - to the best of my recollection, could have been hornets) nest outside and given a can of appropriate pesticide to do it with. He got the idea that it’d be even faster if he simply torched the nest via a makeshift flamethrower, so he grabbed a lighter. Soon enough, the nest had caught on fire a bit - and he found flying, fiery wasps were chasing him. He ended up both with stings and with 1st/2nd degree burns.

I just had a scary thought. What if the thing outside Malthus’s window isn’t just any spider but one of the Irish Troll variety? :eek:

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