Bad hotel story

James Snover

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So ... the other night, yours truly came perilously close to getting himself into real trouble. I got into a heated disagreement with certain hotel staff, lost my temper in public for the first time in ages, and it was looking pretty bad except a few new friends showed up at the right moment and kept me from doing something foolish.

I had taken pictures of three separate species of the Beetle family in my hotel room. I naturally assumed the hotel staff would want to know of the failure of their pest prevention services. So I went to the front desk to show them the pictures of the aforementioned six-legged miscreants.

You can imagine my shock and dismay at the staff's utter indifference to the proof of the dismal failure of their pest prevention services.

I will admit that I got loud. And angry. And that there is a peculiar quirk to my personality: that while I will scream like a frightened little girl at the sight of six-legged insects; I am 100% A-OK with eight-legged insects! Maybe because spiders aren't actually classified as insects? They are, truly, classified as animals. No fooling! Whatever, I'm ok with spiders, but freak out at roaches.

So I tell the staff at the front desk: " Ok, tell you what: I'll go and find a handful of Wolf spiders, set them loose in my room, and let them deal with the pest problem in my room; how's that sound?" Because you can find them almost everywhere, almost any time of year. Big, mean, evil-looking bastards that look like something the demons threw out of Hell because they were too scary. But to humans? totally harmless, non- venomous. Bug-killing machines, though!

That _did_ get the idiot man-bun 20-something behind the desk's attention. He said he would call the cops, if I did. I said something like, hey, if you're going to call the cops, let's give them a real reason to make the trip out here, then.

It was at this point, as I was about to see if my 58-year old self could still vault over a hotel front desk, when my three new pals showed up. They talked some sense into me. We got a bit drunk, told stories and laughed, all in the lobby of the same miserable hotel. Oddly, That seemed to bother man-bun a lot more than if I had succeeded in having a physical altercation with him.

Checked out he next morning. No police involvement. And the hotel staff did not try and raise a stink about me leaving early. They just said, "Thank you," and, "Good-bye."

Moral of the story: you can't go wrong with Wolf spiders.


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James Snover

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How many critters snuck into your luggage and are now in your home?

Sleep tight.

None. I wasn't kidding about the Wolf spiders. And one of them is a female with babies along for the ride. Anything with less than eight legs hasn't got a chance.


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None. I wasn't kidding about the Wolf spiders. And one of them is a female with babies along for the ride. Anything with less than eight legs hasn't got a chance.


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So, you actually FOUND wolf spiders and sent them into your room to do God's work? Excellent.
 

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As a home owner I have a love / hate relationship with spiders. Personally I hate them, can't stand them, but I have a few that have some decent webs in my garage and from the looks of things they're eating pretty good... I'll allow it, because I hate buzzy swarmy things more than I hate spiders.

The struggle is real with the wolf spiders though lol, because I know they're the apex predator of the bunch so I give them their space outside, but inside... they just better hope they're near a door.
 

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As a home owner I have a love / hate relationship with spiders. Personally I hate them, can't stand them, but I have a few that have some decent webs in my garage and from the looks of things they're eating pretty good... I'll allow it, because I hate buzzy swarmy things more than I hate spiders.

The struggle is real with the wolf spiders though lol, because I know they're the apex predator of the bunch so I give them their space outside, but inside... they just better hope they're near a door.

Same. I had a spider bro in the garage that I kept it's web alone. It feasted on mosquitoes all summer long. Probably had 10-12 of those bastards in it's web before it switched sides.

Sadly, I think something bigger ate it.

**** wolf spiders though. Nothing like seeing a momma spider with little spiders on it's back in the middle of the night in the kitchen.
 

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So I'm in my elderly father in law's shop and as he's telling me some war story for the 58th time I notice that behind him a horsefly is struggling to escape from a spider's web in the corner of a window. I loathe those big ass horse biters but for some strange reason I thought he deserved a chance. My FIL had no clue as to what now had my attention and continued to go about his way at his shop table. As I neared the web I noticed a monster spider only inches away and ready to pounce on it's captured meal. So I grabbed a screw driver from the table and spun it around the horsefly, freeing it from the web in the window but now kind of stuck to the screw driver. I walked to the area of the open garage door and slid the spider's snack onto the ground. He buzzed a few times and appeared ready to fly away.

My FIL then walked over to me to continue his story for a few moments. Suddenly his focus shifted and he hurled himself forward uttering "die you little son of a bitch" and with great force smashed his foot down onto my little friend.

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