FUCK ME - You will not believe what just happened to me!

[PurpleToeNail]

There I was, driving home, minding my own business.... When a fucking gargantuan large spider crawled down the windscreen right in the centre of my view! Then I realised it was on the INSIDE. 😳I had to turn into side road super quick, stick my hazards on, grab a tissue & fling the thing out the window.... Arghhhhhh.

Wasp is worse but I once had a bastard helium balloon released by a small child😱

I may have been a passenger that nearly caused an accident on a dual carriageway due to my screaming when a spider plopped from the visor into my lap. Opening the door at 70mph wasn't a good idea. We were on the near side lane, though, so the driver pulled over without incident.

Thankfully the spider was never seen again.

(I can't even get into bed without checking under the pillows and duvet for spiders, nor before using towels!)

Try having a wasp fly into your helmet at 60mph (biker)
It was literally buzzing around my fucking eyes and I hate the things anyway.
I had to pull over and rip my helmet off and run around like a loon!!

Meh, spiders. Can't get worked up about them. We have an old house and there are probably thousands of the buggers in here. DD2 used to name them but it got a bit tricky to remember which was which so they all ended up being called Bernard.

@HazelBite Do you have any phobias? Heights? Small spaces? Fear of flying? Anything?? If you don't, then I want to be you!

Yes, it's mostly irrational fears but they are REAL fears.

Thanks I will add this to the list of reasons to never ever drive.

Spiders, not remotely bothered. The pp who mentioned a seagull getting into a car now, that made my blood run cold. If I didn't immediately have a heart attack I would probably drive the car into a wall. Possibly both. If there are birds on the carriageway I keep the windows very firmly shut.

I had one crawl out of the air vent as I was driving down the motorway. I was trying to stay focused on driving while not letting it out of my sight as it climbed down over the gearstick, while staving off a full blown panic attack.

The spider probably shit everywhere too. They are scary shitting bastards. They dark on washing as well don’t you know.

I can certainly believe that spiders cause deaths via car crashes... however, seeing as the dead can't communicate, I suppose the reason would be recorded as some sort of unexplained erratic behaviour, assuming the innocent(ish) spider managed to scuttle away and leave no evidence behind... Hmm...

I was told by the local bat warden yesterday that she was called out because a man put on some underpants from the airing cupboard and there was a bat inside. Terrified, he yanked them off, flung them aside, poor bat was stunned and the bat warden came to take it to the vet. Bat was fine after it came to.

The man was last seen running down the road naked. I hope he's safely home now!

Absolutely true story.

Jesus, that is my nightmare, trapped in a small space with one of those multi legged horrors.

Jaysus, I'd have jumped out of a moving vehicle!! Too many legs. Spiders have too many legs. It's just wrong. I'm having palpitations on your behalf.

😂

Happened to me twice!

First time my DS says “mum, there’s a huge spider on the dash board”, I roll my eyes and say yes of course as he loves to wind me up, carry on driving and out of the corner of my eye I see a massive moving black blob, I screamed hysterically, slammed on my brakes (was in a quiet 30 limit so wasn’t going fast anyway) pulled into a garden centre and jumped out of the car and made him get rid of it! Obviously after I took a photo as evidence to show everyone the terror I’d been through. I blamed DP for that as he’d used my car the day before to take a load of stuff from the garage to the tip so reckon it’d had came from that.

Second time was on the same stretch of road about a year later, 5 kids in the car, 6 yr old DD says there’s a spider, DS 8 tells her no there isn’t, then he says there is, she’s screaming and crying hysterically but no one can see it, then DS 9 says it’s on the ceiling, I can’t see anything in the mirror so am still driving, then they’re all screaming it’s above the youngest’s heads, DS 14 looks and it was then in the grab handle thing just behind my seat, again, I pull over, run out of the car and scream to DS 14 to get rid of it, he does then tries to chase me with it in a tissue!

I am so thankful both times it was where it was as I dread to think what would have happened if I was on a main road.

Helium balloon does not sound good!

My cat once escaped from her carrier and tried to explore the car dashboard while I was driving on a dual carriageway... thankfully there was a layby a short distance away but it was an interesting drive for a few minutes while she tried her best to get in my way... I made sure it was an experience that could never be repeated (replaced the carrier for one that couldn't be broken out of by the little houdini)!

I once came across a car crash caused by not a spider but a bee. It was a car who had veered off the road and landed on its side down in a ditch after the heavily pregnant driver tried to swat it away from her toddler in the back seat. Both occupants had to be helped up and out through the top doors.

Omg!!! This is something I have always feared happening to me. Its likely I would of crashed.

I came here to say this.

A huntsman bite would definitely cause you to crash!

I have friends who have sold cars after a huntsman surprise...

Many years ago when ds2 was small, my late DH took him and the dog out in the car for a walk in the woods near our house. Ddog was a little bugger for wriggling under the dog guard... Just as DH was driving round a pair of very sharp double bends Ddog dived under the guard past DS2 who screamed and through the middle of the front seats... In the process of doing this, Ddog landed on the seat belt release button which sent the seat belt whizzing past DH's ear..!!
It would be a fair assumption to say that DHs nerves were more than a little frayed when he got home!

@UrslaB

Burn the car. It is the only way to ensure it is dead and no little baby spiders with giant genes are breeding in your air vents.

Seriously though, you did well to not cause a wreck.

I totally understand your panic. The surprise is unpleasant. I was on the loo last year and heard the extractor fan above my head stutter. I looked up thinking there was a short I would have to see about fixing but then I saw this big spindly, hairy leg poke out of the extractor fan. I was so confused...then it turned into a scene out of a horror film. This massive spider crawled out of the fan!😨

A spider, so big, it caused the fan to stop.

It dropped down from the fan and landed on the floor between my legs.

Well, I lept up and staggered out of that bathroom mid job. Knickers and jeans around my ankles and shouting blue murder. My other half came running and when she saw the beast she closed the bathroom door in a hurry and helped me get myself to rights. I was honestly afraid it was big enough to open the dopr itself.

After a good laugh at the predicament I went back in there with a broom and murder on my mind. Spider Rex died a most brutal death.

I then went into the attic and sprayed the place down with spider repellant, lemon spray and vinegar. Then I set up numerous sticky insect traps, unscrewed the extractor fan and doused its innards with lemon juice.

The bathroom smells great and is still spider free.

I recommend dousing your car with citrus essential oils, insect repellent and some lemon juice in the vents....either that or burn it to the ground.

Ooo I didn't know about the lemon & vinegar. Good tip!!!

@AnnesBrokenSlate

Oh, I can beat this. A few years ago, I spotted a smaller spider inside the car. I couldn't pull over and it landed on my hand whilst I was driving. Then it bit me!

I had an allergic reaction to the bite and by the time I got to where I was going my hand was red and the bite site was infected. Luckily I was meeting my SIL who is one of those super organised people and carries a first aid kit in her bag so she had spray, cream and a dressing. It took at least a week for the swelling on my hand to go down. And it changed my attitude to spiders for life

Fuuuuuuuck 😱

@sophienelisse

Op this happened to me. Driving at half five in the morning. I had a big loose fleece on and I felt something on my wrist and a fucking huge house spider ran out of my sleeve into the car.

I had to pull over in the middle of fucking nowhere. No one to help.

I ended up catching it in a giant buttons packet and getting it out the car. Was literally crying and screaming until it was out. On my own.

I had another four hours of driving. I literally drove to Scotland with my arms and legs tensed incase another appeared as someone told me they always come in pairs.

Was fucking horrific. The fear!

Got my car valeted as soon as I arrived and an understanding lad in my work checked the whole car with a fine tooth comb for me.

It's a horrible thing to happen to you.

This thread is freaking me OUT!

@HazelBite

See explain to me someone why are people in this country frightened of spiders??? I can understand a fear of snakes, or even wasps/ bees, (although unless you are allergic the stings are not that dreadfull) but spiders? small fragile little beings that make webs that cartch house flies/bluebottles etc, that are far more dangerous because of the germs they carry!

I don't know. I see I've bigger than a penny and it knocks the breath out of me. I know they won't hurt me and are more scared of me.

I even had a tarantula as a pet to try and get me over this. I was still scared of spiders. House spiders fucking terrify me.

Tarantulas do not. No logic to it.

I think the issue is I don't like house spiders and they are fast as fuck. Then it's the fear "where the fuck is it"

It might be in my clothes - it's happened
It might be in my bed - it's happened.

It's the legs I think. The fact they give no fucks and run at you. That they will sit in your clothes until they feel like it even if you are wearing them. The fact they run across you.

I have night terrors if I see one without expecting to. I don't know if I am awake or Asleep abs my DH is running round looking for them. He can't tell if I am Asleep till a few mins in either.

I actually know somebody who accidentally killed a woman when this happened to him!