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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Hereismyusernayme on 2024-11-16 17:56:50+00:00.

So it’s getting colder outside. We all know this, winter is coming and the such. I’ve noticed a collection of spiderwebs below my kitchen sink that I’ve decided to leave in place and admire their progress. We have an understanding, the spiders and I.

However, three days ago I had to break that agreement. My wife was preparing lunch when she discovered the extent of the webbing. Naturally, she looks down to get a closer look. Upon a closer look, we found what looked like a brown recluse. A big, chunky one.

Next came a debate. We have an army of pill bugs that live below our home that I can only assume have been feeding it. I knew this was a shared area because I could see at least one daddy long leg nearby. I thought about just capturing Becky with the bad bite and removing it alone so I didn’t hurt the others, but realistically, no matter how I cut it, with a young child and a couple of small animals in my home, we couldn’t let this one (and possibly the others nearby) stay.

So the decision was made to spray the area.

We evacuated ourselves and our pets and I set to work. Eventually, the deed was done and the beautiful webbed landscape was now coated in death soup and I could see pillbugs and spiders alike trying to get away. It was too late for them.

Several hours pass, we packed up and headed out to a playdate for our daughter and life carried on.

Until today.

We’ve noticed an awful smell in our house. We went through everything. Trash? Nope. Dishwasher? Doesn’t stink like that, at least. Fridge? Nah, cleaned out a couple of days ago.

We can’t escape the smell in the kitchen, and it was getting worse.

Three days passed. We went about our lives, joked about the spiders watching our toes the last few weeks and making efforts to clean anything that could be causing the smell.

My wife and I were cooking dinner. I opened the microwave to heat up our chili and I’m hit with a wave of hot meat stank and fruit flies riding that wave to freedom. We finally found it.

She had been defrosting chicken in the microwave when she discovered the spider bungalow. With the events that followed, the chicken was never removed from the microwave and we (apparently) just hasn’t used it the last three days.

It was so bad. We’ve removed the source of the smell and we’re all relieved but now we’ve lost our microwave and I guess I’ll have to get a new one. At least black Friday is coming, I guess.

TL;DR

My wife discovered a mass of danger spiders by her feet, forgot about defrosting meat in the microwave, and it took way (way) too long for us to find it.