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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WolfSpider" data-source="post: 203971" data-attributes="member: 24627">Not a death by my hands, but my stupidity tells a funny story,  So, I have this Phormingochilus sling.  And of course it is a pet hole.  It hasn't eaten in 3 weeks and is no where to be found in my dram vial.  Well, like an idiot I go exploring in my bathroom.  I am sifting through substrate carefully and dumping it into the trash can.  Over time, I end up dumping all the substrate and no spider.  I am bummed and assume I threw away the dead carcass and didn't realize it.  The next day I am sitting in the bathtub (our shower houses cat litter boxes--another long dumb story).  Anyway, I am taking a bath.  My wife had previously exited the bath and she is blow drying her hair wrapped in a bath towel seated on her side of the bathroom.  On the back of her chair is a white towel.  I so happen to glance up toward her.....and there is my sling chillaxing on her towel just inches from her back.  And...of course, my wife is petrified of spiders.  My first reaction is "Cool".  It is alive.  My second reaction is "How the heck did it get out without me realizing on the previous day".  My third reaction is "Holy sh÷÷"  How am I going to pull this one off so my wife doesn't freak and end my favorite hobby.So, since my heart is small black and cold like the Grinch, I hatch a plan.  I ease my buck naked self out of the tub, dry off and put a towel around me.  I say to my wife.   "Ummm. there is a spider on the towel right behind you".  She jumps a mile, runs to the bathroom door and yells "It's not one of your tarantulas is it?"  I calmly say, "No, it looks like a cute house spider". "Well get rid of it dammit!"  So while she has obviously exited the bathroom for good, I take a catch cup and place my spider in another dram vial with appropriate substrate.  I then take the catch cup, it is empty now, and put a piece of cardboard under it and make a show of bringing it to the front door, opening it, and "let to go" off of the front porch.She has never been the wiser and I learned a valuable lesson about patience with fossorial old worlds.</blockquote>

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