TIFU by coating myself in peppermint oil in self defense

I (16M) has a very long day at school and then at work and didn’t get home until about 9:30pm, and all I wanted to do was lay down in my bed and sleep.

Unfortunately for me, the first thing I was greeted by when I set foot into my room was a wolf spider in the corner by the head of my bed. I hate spiders in my room.

So I was originally gonna let it go peacefully by either putting it in a cup and then letting it outside or in a bug catcher thing I have, but because it was in the corner of the walls, I couldn’t grab it. I tried and it fled under a poster and then crawled into the corner where the walls meet the ceiling.

Obviously I didn’t fuck with this and decided the next best step would be spraying it with disinfectant spray, which knocked it off my wall… behind my bed and under my pillow…

After gathering my courage I moved my pillow to see if it was still alive, and unfortunately for me, it was. It then proceeded to flee… somewhere… who knows where…

This freaked me out more and naturally I decided the best option was to ward it away from my body somehow so it wouldn’t crawl on me in my sleep.

So I covered myself in peppermint extract oil.

The kind for baking.

This seemed totally logical to me since spiders hate peppermint, but unfortunately for me, my skin hates peppermint too, and had an allergic reaction.

So instead of getting the rest I deserve, I’m now laying at the opposite end of my bed covered in hives and peppermint oil.

It didn’t occur to me until after that I could’ve just shoved peppermint gum sticks in my pockets, but I never said I was thinking logically.

TL;DR: The spider won and I’m stuck cosplaying a candy cane until I can eventually sleep and free myself from this torment.