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Yes - speaking of beautiful pieces of engineering (Alfa - NOT ).

Actually, a spider was instrumental in the failure of my marriage to the first Mrs Speedbird, believe it or not.

Things weren't going too well and tempers were short. She was Australian and grew up checking for redbacks under the toilet seat in the dunny and had little tolerance anyway for my phobia. One night we'd gone to bed and I was about to turn out the light when I spotted a medium sized spider in the corner of the ceiling. I started to suggest that I should go and get a stepladder and some sort of weapon to destroy it in case it fell on me during the night but I was over-ruled in no mean terms and the light went out. I lay there for hours imagining this monster creeping across the ceiling until it was over my mouth and then ... letting go .

I eventually fell into a fitful sleep and then suddenly woke up screaming as something plopped onto my chest. Yep. I was right. It was planning to do it all along and it's timing was perfect even if it's aim was slightly out. Well, Mrs Speedbird was totally unamused and how she restrained from hitting me I have no idea. As if it was my fault that I was right! That was when I knew I had to leave. I couldn't live with a woman who was in league with the spiders in an attempt to destroy my sanity. It was actually the moment that I gave up

AND she'd made me buy her an Italian sports car. Even worse than an Alfa - a Fiat X1-9

Ian

There's off topic and there's off topic. I wonder where this thread falls

I think you were wise to get out while the going was good Ian. We've all heard that spiders (female spiders that is) are fond of eating their mate once the act of reproduction has taken place and any woman in league with spiders must be considered equally dangerous

ATB
DaveB

DaveB wrote:There's off topic and there's off topic. I wonder where this thread falls

Well, at least I waited until you'd answered the VC10 question and it veered on to 737s before completely trashing it

But this is spooky. I just went to pick up my lunch bag in the kitchen, to stuff it with treats to take to work, when a twitch caught my eye and I dropped it - just in time! A spider was hiding underneath it! Now that is too much of a coincidence to be coincidental. I knew she was a witch and that just proves it. She knows I'm talking about her and she sent the spider as a reminder that she's watching and listening. You think I'm joking but she saw people that weren't there

Aaaargh!

Ian

See... that's what happens if you refuse to buy her a decent car!

I don't do spiders either Ian.. unless I've had a few beers If I were you, I'd bin those sarnies in case the spider got in and laid eggs. You'd not want to be eating spider eggs would you?

ATB
DaveB

I rather liked the Fiat X1-9. Fun car, rust heap - yes, dodgy electrics - of course. But reasonably cheap fun in the same spirit as my old Triumph Vitesse soft top, loved that car.