Do I burn the place down or nah? [OC]

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ColoTransplant on July 23rd, 2022 at 01:53 UTC »

School I taught had to shut down for almost a week to deal with a black widow infestation. I don't teach there anymore.

cowsxgoxmoo7878 on July 23rd, 2022 at 02:22 UTC »

Well I was having a pre sleep poop... Guess it's just a normal poop now.

artsy7fartsy on July 23rd, 2022 at 05:00 UTC »

When I was a teen my grandfather asked me, my mom, and aunt to come help him clean out our family’s historic Sears and Robuck farmhouse that had been messed up by some renters that became squatters and wouldn’t leave. Turned out they had closed off parts of the house as they became too filthy to deal with and when we opened one of these spaces and were working in it (with rather bad lighting) we slowly became aware of something that seemed to take up a whole corner and put off this odd… vibration. It wasn’t a sound really, it was more of just a presence.

My grandfather went and got a flashlight and we realized it was a floor to ceiling black widow nest. Filled with babies. Thousands of them.

We ran outside into the sun and realized we were covered with them too. We all stripped to our underwear in the middle of the lane and left our clothes laying there. We drove back to my grandparents and I remember sitting in the back seat I could see a few of them crawling in my aunts hair

We got back to grandma and grandpa’s and my grandpa hosed us all off behind the house before we could even go in and shower. It seemed thorough enough but later that year my grandma was bit by a black widow that had been in the coat closet right there by where we tried to clean off, so I think we missed at least one.

My grandfather burned the place to the ground

I had honestly blocked the trauma of that whole episode until I saw this. I’m going to take a shower