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!

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.)

😂😂😂

You fool, you!

Oh thank god

Jeez, why are so many of you so pathetic about little spiders and insects (and bits of plastic you mistake for them)? What exactly do you think they'll do to you? Why can't you leave them alone instead of killing them?

It may sound pathetic, but no one is claiming that all fears are inherently rational.

It would be nice if our fears were based solely on logic, but shit happens.

I don’t kill them, and I’m ok about little ones. But I’ve had so many bad experiences. I’ve had spiders the size of my hand chase me, possibly bite me in the night (woke up with massive fang marks) wrap themselves around my leg as a child. The giant ones I’ve seen their faces and they’re evil

😄this is the funniest thing ever. Thank you for making me laugh

I try to catch and release them

My wife has a proper spider phobia. I have a childhood trauma fear/ possible phobia of moths and dead insects and hate killing things.

I spent hours cleaning out the shed today. I'll spare you the details as it was like a horror movie but after the spiders and swathes of dead insects I was then just tidying up the nooks and crannies and waves of increasingly sized moths flew out.

We've not long moved in and the area is posh. I screamed the place every single time. Might have to move again at this rate 🤣

On the plus side I've never felt better after a shower

@crazycatladyof6 You're welcome 😂

I'm laughing at myself remembering how I hurdled over the side of the bath like a soaped up Olympian, I startle so easily! 😂

I can see it now 🤣🤣

I would never ever recover from this 😭

I'm not arachnophobic, but the number of times I've seen a tangle of hair and thought it was a spider...

Hahaha amazing.

If it makes you feel better, I freaked out and jumped out of the shower when a Thing touched my arm.

It was hair.

My own.

I knew it lol….but you had to zoom into the pic, and you were already freaked out.

I’m just going to leave the “dead cat” here OP, this should make you feel less stupid!

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/mumsnet_classics/1318402-A-small-fluffy-bundle?postsby=purplewerepidj

TLDR for the dead cat thread: @purplewerepidj spotted a dead cat on a wall. She mounted a Facebook campaign to find the owner, rang round local vets, and when no owner was found, took the cat’s body to the vet to scan it for a microchip….. where the vet had to break it to her that it was, in fact, a toy cat.

Sorry for laughing at you OP but that's hilarious!! 🤣🤣
I once insisted my husband pull in to to the side of the road so I could rescue a hedgehog....... It was a rock 🤭

Noooo! 🤣 That's hilarious, I'll definitely have to take a look!

I'm not too embarrassed, but only because it's not exactly unheard of for me to make a tit out of myself imagining I see things.

No word of a lie, I once thought I saw an elephant in a nearby field. Pushed up my glasses and realised I was looking at a horse in a winter coat 🐴

Um, @FictionalCharacter, I don't think that she killed that little bit of plastic transfer so you needn't lose too much sleep over it!

As for leaving spiders and insects alone, if they would leave me alone that would be fine, but if there is a spider on the ceiling you can bet your bottom dollar (I wonder where that saying comes from, the USA or maybe Australia - I will look it up later?) that it will aim itself straight for me (the "straight" bit is me using a little bit of poetic licence - it doesn't have to be poetry to use it 🤭 - as it often uses a bit of a circuitous route). To stop myself from having a heart attack I do have to get my husband to get rid of it, by whatever means are necessary - I am not proud of myself.

Unfortunately, the same thing happens with wasps, they head straight for me, for my face! Of course I do all the wrong things like scream, wave my arms frantically around etc - but I can't run away as I am in a wheelchair. It really doesn't seem to scare the wasps, they still just keep on coming, and don't worry Fictional, at least when we are outside it is almost impossible to kill them!

It might sound funny, it might even look funny at the time, but I have real phobias - which means they are irrational - and I am literally terrified (it's a pity that I'm not petrified instead as that would at least probably stop a wasp from attacking me!).
What to me seems completely bonkers is that having been stung by individual wasps before, and me having to inject myself four times in my abdomen every day - which is sometimes a lot more painful than the wasp stings - I am still terrified of the wasps! I think that some of that must be about control, I have no control over the wasps, but I have total control over injecting myself?

I would never knowingly kill a bee, or have one killed on my behalf.

Do you have any over excessive fears Fictional, heights, snakes, confined spaces, lollipop sticks?
I know that I am mainly being quite light-hearted in my response here to you, but I do actually think that anything to do with actually killing or tormenting any living creatures is a very sad and serious matter.

That looks like a very tiny and cute horse, can't even recognise it. You are absolutely an evil fucker to actively kill though

@RunningUpThatMill thats a bit heavy ?

@Annaishere is it? People stamp on insects and spiders ridiculously, like they are going to be killed by those insects or spiders. They are totally harmless in the UK, given people who might have allergies, we are ridiculous in the way we treat insects and spiders.

It’s because they’re terrified of them. I don’t kill them. But if I found a tarantula size one and it darted at me I might have to. Besides, most people in this country eat meat which is worse than killing insects