I become an expert in smashology. Using techniques in the shoe or paper towel chapter. The wolf spiders on my porch, however, I need to spray the ever living fuck out of them.
See it depends on the surface. Hard floor/ground: squish, twist, drag. Carpet, that doesn't work. So you really kind of have to decapitate it with something.
I try to drop heavy things on spiders if it's at all possible. When that's not possible ... well, I sit there and get pissed off about how death-staring does nothing :/
I'll kill the fuck out of a medium to large spider, otherwise I'll leave the small ones be. I find it funny that we're aggressive to spiders and thus kill them, yet they don't really a give a shit about you unless you're trying to kill it.
Really depends on the size and "species" .. If it's one of those thin spiders I smash or spray the hell of the little cunts, if it's a mutant humongous specimen I would probably run like Usain Bolt and get the ammo.
Man I never understood why normal people suddenly go ape shit and kill the poor things, if your an Arachnophobe its understandable, but if your not its malicious! Venomus ones I kinda understand, but half the time there completely harmless.
I'm an arachnophobe and usually the spiders around here are poisonous brown recluses so if I see one it meets the business end of my shoe.
I'm not an arachnophobe, but we also have wolf and brown recluse's here... Kids saftey is more important than hoping they don't get bit in the safety of their own house. Like a mother bear, I will protect my offspring before giving one fuck about what I'm swinging at. I'm not considering myself malicious at all. A good parent, more likely.