AIBU to leave my dinner because a HUGE spider walked over it?

[EnnieJuan]

No idea where the spider had been (drainpipe/cobweb/somewhere else dirty or dusty). It may have had small feet but 8 of them on my dinner was just too many.

[StarlitTrees]

What was the dinner?

[Namechangetempissue]

It would make me feel a bit 😷 -I get it.

[PoorYorick]

Chuck it, for sure.

[TheNumberfaker]

Yuk, in the bin for sure!

[WhatALoadOfOldBollocks]

It wouldn't bother me provided the spider wasn't sat in my dinner staring at me.

[MaidOfStars]

It’s a spider. What will it have left?

You know that your food is probably teaming with things far more boak-worthy than spider footprints? Especially if you have veg on your plate.

Eat it!

[Kickassname]

It's dynamite time.

[fudgefeet]

It's better than finding half a spider on your plate. I noticed half a wood louse on my fork a few months back when eating salad!

[GladAllOver]

I'd be far more worried about flies landing on food, because they vomit on it to dissolve it into juice to suck up.

That's why I'm always happy to have spiders in the house to keep the real pests down.

[Leviticus]

Spiders have dirty feet. Get rid.

[TroysMammy]

Depends whether he had his willy out or not

[Shockers]

Was it wearing outdoor shoes?

[GladAllOver]

*Spiders have dirty feet. Get rid.
LOL! Have you ever examined a spider's feet? I have seen many under a microscope, and I can assure you they are very clean.

[Nikephorus]

Just blow on it and it'll be fine. Don't you pick stuff up when it falls on the floor, blow on it and eat it? (Yes I know blowing will do very little but...)

[littlemisscomper]

Shockers Hahaha!

[elQuintoConyo]

Had he just been to an eat-all-you-can Fly Buffet?

I'd eat it. Seems rather hysterical not to. Fly on my food - don't eat. Spider on my food - offer it a pea.

[WowserBowser]

I wouldn't be able to eat it. Because of the memory, not because of the dirty feet.

I have to switch IACGMOOH off when I'm eating.

[RhiannonOHara]

Glad, I'm intrigued. What kind of job involves examining a spider's feet under a microscope?

[RedLemonade]

Troy

I second the "what was the dinner?" question.** Could you scoop away the food underneath the spider's path?

[EnnieJuan]

It was only a sandwich and I did wonder about swapping the top slice of bread but still felt put off in case it had wiped its body along the edge whilst sauntering over my table

[Ameliablue]

Not unreasonable at all.

[GladAllOver]

"Glad, I'm intrigued. What kind of job involves examining a spider's feet under a microscope?"
I expect there are researchers who examine spiders for a living, but in my case it's purely a hobby. Not the feet in particular, but all of them. They are absolutely fascinating creatures, and very beneficial.
I'm never seen dirt as such on a spider's feet. I suspect that it would be counter-productive to leave dirt on the strands of a web, when it walks on them.
There will of course be bacteria that don't show up on the microscope, but then they are floating everywhere in the air.

I would be far, far more concerned about contamination of food by a fly than a spider.

[ToadOfSadness]

Did it eat much?

[Beansprout30]

Urgh bin it! And the plate

[Beansprout30]

Urgh bin it! And the plate