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anyone else scared of their garden shed?!!!!!!!!

21 replies

redbull · 26/04/2006 15:35

went to go in the shed this morning to get the lawnmower out feeling very brave as i opened the door went to get the lawn mower and a HUGE spider was on it, i did the most obvious thing......
Ran round screaming trying to shut the shed door we have low fences in our garden and my neighbour came out to what what was wrong when i said it was a spider you should of seen her face not entering the shed EVER again!

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Bella23 · 26/04/2006 15:40

Totally with you on this one!
I make every excuse in the book to get DH to always get stuff out of it instead of me going anywhere near it as I am positive that its home to all sorts of creepy crawlies!!

Feistybird · 26/04/2006 15:40

Yes, it makes my skin crawl every time I have to go in. I'm never in there for more than a nanosecond all because of spiders.

Pathetic really.

tallmummy · 26/04/2006 15:53

I'm the same I HATE Spiders. I can't go in the loft or shed. There was a huge one on our landing this morning. I ran screaming and trod on (or in, YUK) a dead rabbit the cat had brought in.

tallmummy · 26/04/2006 15:54

Just realised that this post paints a lovely picture of what my house must be like!

Bumblelion · 26/04/2006 15:55

I hate my garden shed and garage. Once I got locked in the garden shed at the end of the garden in my old house. My eldest (who is now 13) was a baby in a pram. I had gone indoors, left her in the pram in the front room while I went to the garden shed to get something (can't remember what). Got in the garden shed, the door shut on me and I couldn't open it. Panicked because of baby in the house (in her pram asleep) and smashed the window to climb out. How I didn't injure myself, I don't know. When I phoned my (now ex) husband hysterical to tell him I was locked in the garden shed and couldn't get out, he asked why I didn't turn the handle on the door rather than smash the window.

I just panicked because of spiders and had to get out of there a.s.a.p. and the only thing I could think of doing was smashing the window.

cataloguequeen · 26/04/2006 15:55

YES!!!!!!!!

I've been living here almost 2 years and haven't ventured into the thing!!! Dh won't either the sissy!!!

Hattie05 · 26/04/2006 15:56

I sooo understand.

I love gardening and doing little bits of diy, but my fear of the shed really puts a downer on this sort of thing! Dp often works weekends, and i have to wait until he's around to rescue me in case anything attacks me.

Its not just the spiders, there could be mice, rats and all sorts of bugs. There could even be a snake after seeing the snake in my compost thread! .

The longer time that goes by when i havn't seen any of these things in my shed the easier it is, and then all goes back to square one when i find something again .

Gingerbear · 26/04/2006 16:02

I am. But not because of spiders and inssects. I am scared that something huge and heavy may fall on top of me if I open the shed door (tis a tip)

Feistybird · 26/04/2006 16:04

I am just waiting for Spidermama or Tarantula to join this thread and scare the bejeezus out of us all.

desperateSCOUSEwife · 26/04/2006 16:04

no way would i venture into there
it is full of shite and crawlies

redbull · 26/04/2006 16:14

Im sure this was a new breed of spider it was HUGE i could see thehairs on its legs and it looked at me the kind of look that said "come on try it,just try to squish me and i will suck all your blood and feed you to my young"

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cataloguequeen · 26/04/2006 16:17

lmao redbull...it's probably a wolf spider quite aggressive and feisty!!!

biglips · 26/04/2006 16:23

i always look first and then close my eyes grab what i want and walk out with my eyes close!!

cataloguequeen · 26/04/2006 16:30

lol biglips at least you can so in!!

hulababy · 26/04/2006 16:34

I would never have a garden shed because of the spiders reason! If we did have one, or even one of those children's wooden houses, I wouldn't go inside one. Not a chance. I have too many bad memories of spiders lurking in them from my childhood.

biglips · 26/04/2006 16:42

well there is a story about why i hate greenhouses and sheds ! as once i went into my mums greenhouse to get a spade for mum for gardening and i put my hand on the door frame, checking out any king size spiders in there and i felt some thing hairy.. i nearly died!!! (it was one of them giant hairy months!!)

biglips · 26/04/2006 16:42

moths !! not months!!

pepperrabbit · 26/04/2006 16:43

I WAS scared of our shed but am now completely cured.
DH burnt it down on bonfire night..... (he ran out of normal stuff to burn). sigh

redbull · 26/04/2006 17:06

\link{http://www.funlol.com/funpages/scary-spiders.html\it looked like this first 1 but the rest could be its family that live in my shed ahhhhhhhhh}

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granarybeck · 26/04/2006 17:14

Yes completely agree sheds are v scary places, only go in ours if absolutely necessary, and is only small (but would still be big enough to house ginormous spiders)! Its taken me over a year to even peep into our cellar!

pepperrabbit · 26/04/2006 21:05

redbull - they are horrid!

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