I feel so much more normal for just saying hello to my shower spider now.
Be careful, though! This is the first step towards what anon describes!
My shower spider gets a reminder of our deal.
“You know the drill. You stay up there, I stay over here, nobody has to be injured today.”
Sometimes the spider decides to come over to my side and gets flushed or squished, but they knew what was expected of them.
Real talk: people that save spiders and make it a moral thing confuse the heck out of me.
Like, if you were the spiders size proportionally to the spider, it would web you up and suck your blood for being in its home…
I do the feeding thing, but mostly because it feels wrong to kill a mosquito and then just throw it in the trash
Shower spider wants to watch you touch yourself
Why don’t you people kill and dispose of spiders in your home?
They’re actually pretty beneficial (eating other more annoying bugs and all that) and usually not harmful to human residents in any way (except if you live in Australia). Killing them because “aah yuck spiders!” isn’t a good enough reason to many
They typically leave me alone, and eat the other bugs that don’t leave me alone.
I hate to break it to you, but that’s a male spider and you’re gay.
And this story is real, so it is Real AND Gay!