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I fell through my floor this evening

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Justaboutawake · 05/12/2018 21:22

As the title suggests, so now I’m comfort eating my way through a pizza.

Hallway floor has been damp since we had a very leaky radiator a few weeks ago. Been trying to dry it out and have avoided treading on the affected part etc etc

However, got home tonight and needed to collect a parcel from next door (that was in a ridiculously oversized box- thanks amazon!) whilst dealing with bouncing, yappy DDog so couldn’t see where I was going. I got the shock of my life when all of a sudden I fell through the floor all the way up to mid-calf level and am now imagining all the horrid invisible creepy crawlies that must now be roaming all over my leg!!

Please cheer me up with your disasters of the day to distract me from showering yet again this evening Wink

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MothertotheLordsofmisrule · 05/12/2018 21:39

I once trod on a huge House spider with my BARE foot!!!

I felt it have a spidery leggy spasm under my toes before it was crushed to death. Shock

No help to your creepy crawlie imaginings obviously.

ApplePenPineapplePen · 05/12/2018 21:47

That happened to me when I was heavily pregnant and treading on sone floorboards affected by old woodworm. I stepped into a storage alcove and put one foot through the boards up to my knee (big underfloor cavity there). I couldn't extricate myself and had to wait for DH to haul me out. Huge shock and spider fear.

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Justaboutawake · 05/12/2018 21:48

Bleurgh!! I’ve done that with a slug and bare feet but hairy spider legs? Gives me the shivers

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Notquiterichenough · 05/12/2018 21:50

My brother once fell through a loft floor, and ended up in my bedroom.

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Justaboutawake · 05/12/2018 21:51

The thought of pulling it all up to replace it creeps me out. What if there’s a gang of spiders or trolls down there?
I’m quite handy but will definitely be calling a man out for this one for fear of cobwebs, bugs and little tiny troll folk

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Missymoo99 · 05/12/2018 21:54

I dropped my whole set of keys down a drain outside a local shop! I stood there and cried while one of the lovely guys working there managed to get the top off the drain and fished out all the yuk and thankfully my keys!! Felt like such an idiot!!

Omzlas · 05/12/2018 21:59

Stood on a slug in bare feet. Makes my toes curl, even to this day

MrsChopper · 05/12/2018 22:02

Yuck I also had a slug + bare foot experience once ... in the dark too! I only went for a glass of water Envy

Calvinsmam · 05/12/2018 22:02

Not the same but I once pressed the button for the green man and someone had grogged on the button, there was a line of snot still attached between my finger and the button as I pulled it away.
I was genuinely nearly sick.
Oh god I want to cut my hand off just thinking about it. Envy

Enwi · 05/12/2018 22:04

I've stood on a caterpillar with a bare foot before. It popped Sad

Calvinsmam · 05/12/2018 22:05

Oh god. It popped?

Voooooom

barrelohflaughs · 05/12/2018 22:06

When I was younger I stood in a bucket of dog shit. For some reason my friends parents used to collect their dogs crap and keep it in a bucket in a hole in the garden with the lid on. We were throwing a ball around, I stepped back and straight in to the bucket of shit. I had to go home in a pair of my friend’s dad’s jogging bottoms and another friends shoes that were about 3 sizes too small.

Calvinsmam · 05/12/2018 22:07

For some reason my friends parents used to collect their dogs crap and keep it in a bucket in a hole in the garden with the lid on.

ShockConfusedShockConfusedShock

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Justaboutawake · 05/12/2018 22:13

**Not the same but I once pressed the button for the green man and someone had grogged on the button, there was a line of snot still attached between my finger and the button as I pulled it away.

What the actual fuck?!! That is grim!

And dog shit in a bucket in a hole? Glad there was no shit under my floorboards!

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Teakind · 05/12/2018 22:55

Oh that’s grim!

I once knelt down to stroke the dog and I knelt on a huge spider. I felt that pop too and it’s body left and indent in my knee! So gross.

SamanthaJayne4 · 05/12/2018 22:56

The bucket of dog poo was likely a dog loo. You put it in the ground and add chemicals. We had one but never got round to installing it. Our DC thought the dogs were going to use the dog loo in the same way that humans do!

Harrykanesrightsock · 05/12/2018 23:00

I have thrice stepped bare foot onto dog poo.

But my worst was stepping on a baby bird that had been kicked out it’s nest,again bare foot, it squelched between my toes and I just hope it was dead already. It took me weeks before I could even tell DH, then a full year to recall to anyone else. Totally traumatised.

Athena51 · 05/12/2018 23:03

I've stood in cat vomit more times than I care to remember over the years. Cue hopping around like an idiot trying to get my foot under running water asap shudders

FloatingthroughSpace · 05/12/2018 23:07

I found the back half of a baby mouse outside my bedroom door this morning. Completely severed from the front half, which could be in my cat's belly or could be hidden away somewhere waiting to be found.

Why is there never a pool of blood at a mouse murder crime scene?

Osirus · 05/12/2018 23:11

I slipped on a dead mouse once. I heard its rib cage crack as my foot slid over it. It was absolutely grim.

Calvinsmam · 05/12/2018 23:13

Oh this reminds me, I found a dead mouse in my slipper and as I was literally gagging and traumatised my mother started to cry ‘because it would have been looking for somewhere warm to die’ Hmm

RoboticMary · 05/12/2018 23:17

OP this is my nightmare!! I worry about this all the time! Old Victorian terrace, sagging floorboards and tissue-thin carpet.... I’m so frightened of this happening Shock

beela · 05/12/2018 23:17

I popped outside the back door in the dark with bare feet to put some recycling out and a rat bumped into my foot before running off into the garden Envy (not envy).

I jumped about a foot into the air!

Banterlope · 05/12/2018 23:21

When I was around six years old my bastard cat decantered my goldfish and left its corpse on the kitchen floor. Coming down for breakfast with bare feet I felt its slimy blood-streaked body go all squishy between my toes. Not got on with a cat or goldfish since then really

kazwelch · 05/12/2018 23:34

When I was a child we had a mouse in the kitchen & my mum was standing on a chair saying it's ok don't be scared of it. My cat has brought 2 dead mice in the kitchen now.