Spiders. Spiders in wing mirrors. They hitch and don't pay a damn penny.
A bloke I used to lift share with to work in Falmouth used to have his own pet spider. Not a tarantula in a glass case, the one that lived inside his wing mirror. Tirelessly spinning a web anew every day, he would prank it by flicking a ball of cig ash out into the web and laugh as the spider darted out to attach the 'fly', only to skulk off later when he found that it wasn't a nice juicy fly.

The next year when I had my own ride I acquired a hitch hiking spider of my own. Only this one wouldn't skulk behind the mirror, it sat square on the centre of the web. Even when I was driving along at 60 and the web was oscillating madly in the wind. I can only assume it was some sort of extreme sports spider that it was screaming 'I'VE NEVER FELT SO ALIVE!' at the top of its tiny spider voice.
( Rotating Wobbly Hat That's not a banana. THIS is a banana., Wed 27 Aug 2014, 18:56, 6 replies)

We had a wing mirror spider for quite a while.
I don't like spiders, but he wasn't that big so I tolerated him. My soft-hearted wife insisted that we stop by the side of the road and 're-home' him in a hedge before we went through a car wash.
(Baggenfrock get fucked, Wed 27 Aug 2014, 19:23, closed)

Hence the expression;
"If you don't like someone, let them go".
( Rotating Wobbly Hat That's not a banana. THIS is a banana., Wed 27 Aug 2014, 19:34, closed)

you pair of great spiderqueers

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Wed 27 Aug 2014, 19:57, closed)

I just post about it. I'm a non-participant.
www.b3ta.com/questions/graffiti/post79119
( Rotating Wobbly Hat That's not a banana. THIS is a banana., Wed 27 Aug 2014, 20:07, closed)

flies would punch holes straight through the web instead of being caught by it

( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Wed 27 Aug 2014, 19:42, closed)

Sorry, I should eloborate that the web was across the mirror on the rear side
so any flies on the road would smash into the front of the mirror first. I wonder if, after the vehicle stopped, Mister Spidey the Spider nipped out from the inside of the mirror with a straw to finish up the remains...
( Rotating Wobbly Hat That's not a banana. THIS is a banana., Wed 27 Aug 2014, 19:50, closed)

Jus de spider?

( Ghoti Fingers, Wed 27 Aug 2014, 20:09, closed)

Awful pidgin English accent.
Anyone would think it was Alan Coren's Idi Amin diaries.

(it was the 1970s.)

www.ourcivilisation.com/smartboard/shop/corena/chap0.htm
( Rotating Wobbly Hat That's not a banana. THIS is a banana., Wed 27 Aug 2014, 20:27, closed)

Alan Coren on b3ta? Whatever next?
Victoria's description of his funeral is one of the most touching things I've ever read
( Ghoti Fingers, Wed 27 Aug 2014, 21:06, closed)

Yeah, I'm old.
Shamed to say I enjoyed the mocking of the dictator, if not the way the pidgin mocked a nation of ex-colonials.
( Rotating Wobbly Hat That's not a banana. THIS is a banana., Wed 27 Aug 2014, 21:17, closed)

It was written by Alan Coren but performed by John Bird
I still have the album
(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Thu 28 Aug 2014, 14:02, closed)

Also ...
... Miles Kington ...
( Ghoti Fingers, Wed 27 Aug 2014, 21:07, closed)

I like door mirror spiders. I hate Team Spiders.

( d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Wed 27 Aug 2014, 21:22, closed)

I've upgraded and sanctioned a web on the inside bottom
right corner of my windscreen. Obviously there's a limit to the amount of prey that would normally enter a vehical so to increase the odds of survival for my arachnid colleague I park with the windows open as often as I can. Must admit that her web building can be distracting while I'm driving but no more than a TomTom.
( edjogs Collared doves are shit., Wed 27 Aug 2014, 21:40, closed)

(^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!

( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Thu 28 Aug 2014, 12:39, closed)