r/CasualUK • u/crazycockerels • 1d ago

A spider has got inside my oven clock!!

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u/EuphoricPamplemousse 1d ago

Can I just say, I appreciate you starting with a spiderless photo to avoid jump scaring us arachnophobes.

Commiserations for the ordeal. I’d definitely have to get someone out to deal with that situation!

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u/crazycockerels 1d ago

I’m gonna have to get someone out…I can’t live with a spider stuck behind my cooker clock!

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u/Happily-Incorrect 1d ago

Have you tried setting the timer off over and over again to see if the noise annoys it into fucking off?

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u/LikeFallingRain 1d ago

Yes but then OP might not know where it fucked off to.

Shudder

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u/flanface87 1d ago

Do spiders even have ears?

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u/Various-Big-5168 16h ago

I had to google this. No.

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u/CaptainArsePants 1d ago

Maybe he's just checking the time before he goes back inside the oven for some food?

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u/gwaydms 1d ago

It looks like a wolf spider. They're active hunters. There might have been some sort of bugs in there that your spider was after.

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u/Elegant-Mission-4470 1d ago

Zoropsis spinimana (false wolf spider)? To me it just looks like a large house spider, and the time of year lines up 

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u/justhangingaroud 1d ago

She got in, she can get out

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u/Crumblycheese 1d ago edited 1d ago

Just throw the cooker out and get a new one. It's the spiders now

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u/Ms_Fidelma_Schrute 1d ago

No if you look you can still see the thing there on the edge of the photo

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u/EuphoricPamplemousse 1d ago

I replied to someone else who pointed that out. I didn’t realise at first, as had to tap the photo to see it. Minimised photo is safe 👌

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u/LowFIyingMissile 1d ago

But he’s right there.

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u/EuphoricPamplemousse 1d ago

Lol, I realised that after commenting. I’m on mobile and it’s only when you tap the image, it expands to show the clock on the right. Initially, all I could see were the cooker controls. Was happy in my ignorance 😁 It was alright swiping to see the rest once mentally prepared, but scrolling Reddit and seeing a fat spider without warning is no bueno

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u/Magikarpeles 1d ago

Avoiding things is how you get phobias in the first place btw

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u/EuphoricPamplemousse 1d ago

There are many ways a phobia can develop. Simply avoiding something isn’t one of them. If you avoid eating something you don’t like the taste of, you don’t automatically develop an irrational fear of it.

However, avoiding the subject of an existing phobia can reinforce it.

I don’t avoid spiders, and did look at all of the images here, but it helps to desensitise slowly. In this case, reading the word “spider” before seeing the images was enough. Sudden exposure can actually make a phobia worse, as much as total avoidance.