Does your partner tend to exaggerate?

Question

My husband doesn't like spiders, they don't bother me a lot so he usually asks me to get rid of them. He called me to his shed today to remove "a spider that was so big it carried a piece of 4 x 2 away" Do you agree that was exaggeration or not?

REFUGIO. He's not embarrased.I am compassionate and if you don't mind my saying so you should laugh more often cos I'm just joking. xxx
TONY Thank so much for blessing him. I usually curse him!lol
MAID ANGELA We are lucky not to have very big spiders in the uk so it wouldn't matter on the length really.
IRITADRAGON I'm so glad I don't eat yogurt lol.

Answer 1

That's not exaggeration, my husband has one twice that size. When it moves the earth trembles!

Answer 2

Weleeeeeee, not really. I am terrified of spiders too.

When a spider comes into the house I have to move all the furniture, put a large glass bowl over the top of the monsters then a large piece of card under it and I go to the back door and throw the bowl and card as far as I can across the garden.

The other night the neighbours thinking there was a break in going on called the police after I had disposed of 5 spiders, one glass bowl landing on top of another glass bowl, there was a lot of sound of breaking glass and me screaming late at night. Oh why do they pick on me? (The spiders not the neighbours.)

I buy the bowls in bulk!

Answer 3

Well, Sylvia, all I can say is that your husband would not do very good at all around North American dock spiders then. These things can grow to be truly humongous, being almost the size of an adult woman's spread hand. You'll probably get a kick out of this story...
http://www.fishingthunderbay.com/newsletter10.htm

And when my brother had his family living in my parent's basement, he managed to catch a common brown house spider that had grown truly gargantuan on the rabbit pellets that my Dad stored for his bunny. This thing covered the whole of the bottom of a 500 ml yoghurt container! HE wanted to kill it, but I insisted on releasing it outside. It would have been the terror of the bird population, I think!

Answer 4

I could do with that spider to help me shift some clutter.

My ex exaggerated almost everything, in the end I never believed a word he said.

Still, a spider is a new angle on the fisherman's tale.

Answer 5

That's not really exaggeration, it's meant to be funny in order to ease the tension. If it doesn't bother you to remove spiders for your husband, why should it bother you if he uses colorful language and hyperbole? He may feel a bit embarrassed to ask for your help. Be compassionate.

Answer 6

This is not clear. 4 by 2 is just the two sides you do not specify the length so we cant judge how big the spider was without knowing the length of the piece of wood

Answer 7

Did you guys just watch "Arachnaphobia?" (great movi!e)

Exaggeration is commin among men - example fishing & hunting, where the fish caught or game bagged gets larger and.or more numerous every time the story is told. Especially if it was 'catch & release' or 'the one that got away!'

The legendary area of male exaggeration, of course, is in the size of his genetalia. The old joke is that "At my house, 6 inches is a foot."

Answer 8

I would have to see the spider. If it was strong enough to carry 2x4's, then send it my way. I got some repairs that need to be done, and I'll even buy the beer.

Answer 9

clever spider ha ha ,my partner tends to exaggerate about how may pints of lager he's drunk. For example if he's drunk 4 pints of larger at the pub by the time we get home he convinced half the village it was 8 or more.

Answer 10

Sounds like a drama king. My dad is the same way (not about spiders, but other things).