Well, my worst nightmare just came true

[HeathenPlayingHouse]

First and foremost, I'll admit upfront that I'm being totally melodramatic.

But remember that scene in Arachnophobia where the girl is in the shower, and it turns out she's not alone? I'm only taking solace in the fact that I cant confirm if it's a spider or not.

I was reaching ti put back the shower gel and felt something against my foot, and assumed that the flannel had fell off the handrail into the bath. So I looked down and saw this THING next my foot, shit myself and jumped out of the bath still covered in shower gel.

I sloshed some water towards it to get it to move down to the plug hole, and the little bastard kept standing strong- I think it took about 5 attempts, and then the bloody thing was too big to fit down the drain! 😭

I think it's dead, so I'm going to sneak back in and get a picture. I'm leaning less towards spider, and more towards mutant moth.

Wish me luck!

God speed

I sympathise if it was a spider, but feel sad if it was a moth. They are pollinators and numbers are dramatically down. You need to get brave about moths!

Nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure

I'm quite scared of moths but I saw what I think was a hummingbird moth at my buddleia the other day it was amazing!

Hopefully the black thing was just a large woodlouse.

I was at PIL a few weeks back (countryside), I was in the shower (over a bath )in the main bathroom, they have a big en suite and their bedroom is in the attic so it's not used unless they have guests. Out of the corner of my eye I saw something move just above my head, I looked up and there was a fine net of cobweb covering the ceiling over half the bath, the steam from my shower had disturbed it and it was hanging down and falling towards my face.
There must've been so least 50 baby spiders running all over it. It makes me queasy just thinking about it and I never did find the mother!

MeinKraft - I saw a hummingbird moth in my garden too the other day, first time I've ever seen one. I was mesmerized by it.

Definitely not a woodlouse, but I'm still none the wiser.

It's all shrivelled up now but I swear it was huge before I turned the bath into a water chute to try and get it away from me 🤮

I’m not particularly bothered by spiders but I was staying in a barn conversation a few years ago. I got out of the bath, felt what I thought was a trickle of water down my back and flicked it with a towel. A huge spider went hurtling through the air. Wasn’t great 😬

Shame it needed to suffer whatever it was really. I'm arachnaphobic but wouldn't kill a spider (or anything else) on purpose. I wouldn't be going back for a photo either - what's the benefit.

I found a large slug upstairs on the carpet earlier and that made me jump, still feel a bit alarmed at how it got inside and by what route. No windows open upstairs today and no damp up there I'm bathrooms or anything so maybe the dog brought it in, god knows.

That doesn’t look like a spider or moth….it looks like a little felt model of a horse or something?

I can't decide if it's a black unicorn or one of those non-human biological entities they keep talking about, that went through a time tunnel and ended up on your foot by accident.

Definitely not felt, we don't have anything like that in the house. Whatever it is, it's staying there until DP gets home from work and then he can tell me.

Don’t they eat the mother for nutrition before they set off on their own journies?

@TheRosesAreInBloom quite possibly, matriphagic bastards

I was sat in the garden during the evening last year, having had a glass or two of wine and saw this bad boy -about 11 cm long - crawling over the path towards my foot. I sobered up pretty darn fast wondering what the heck it was, grabbed my phone and then checked it out only to find it's the caterpillar of the rather beautiful Elephant Hawk moth. Turns out they love lavender bushes and my garden is full of them.

Who knew!

Wow, he's amazing.....

I saw one of these in our local park a while back, it was just ambling along the path. Couldn’t get over how big it was! They are amazing.

That is the Lloyds Bank horse after you shrunk it and killed it.

😂

I really think it will turn out to be a mundane object.
What time is your husband home? I need an answer 😆

That's horrific!

@A303 I'm now singing "I am Giant" 😂

@Weetabixwithberries Possibly not for another hour. I will be brave and try to solve the mystery!

Looks like a spider

Oh my days, I'm mortified!

It's a piece of plastic transfer film that my son peeled off a box earlier- it must have got stuck to the bottom of my foot, and I only noticed when it came off in the shower!

I shall take my roasting now.

It's a wee baby goat, you've killed it 😢😢😢😢😢

Straight to hell for you, young lady!

(I will admit that I also want to know what it REALLY is/was.)