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!

@Annaishere being terrified isn't an excuse to kill something that poses no threat. Yes, eating meat, dairy and eggs is absolutely awful.

It isn’t really a planned out decision. It’s fight or flight. I’m sure I’ve been bitten by one before. I just couldn’t bear it. I couldn’t bear it crawling on me

@Annaishere yes, it is a phobia and it's one I can't tolerate. The amount of spiders that are killed just because a human is scared is too much for me to even understand. I'm hoping mosquitos finish all arachnophobes off.

Well I'm glad no innocent and rare invertebrates actually got killed. I think the attitude of killing tiny creatures just because they're a bit icky is disgusting. I say that as someone with a diagnosed phobia of a type of flying insect. I never ask people to kill them for me.

What about pouring bleach on maggots ?

@HeathenPlayingHouse well, it was a great thread for a while, thanks - because until all the fun sponges failed to see it as a light-hearted piece of silliness and started what should have been a thread of its own about animal welfare/veganism vs meat eating, it was making me laugh.

i think you’re placing too much value in mumsnet threads

Ew what is that ?? Looks like a tiny horse, new fear unlocked

I totally get that there are people who have an aversion to spiders. I'm siding with Team Spider, they are beautiful creatures and I can't bear the thought of people killing them.

If you wish to live and thrive
Let the spider run alive.

i don't like wasps though, viscous little buggers - I got stung this week for no apparent reason.

When i was in Australia we had to do farm work to get our second year visa, for mine I was picking melons. One day we were out picking away and I HEARD a cracking noise behind me and when I turned around, no joke, there was a massive spider(huntsman maybe depending on size) crawling on the plot. It had hundreds of babies on its back. I will never forget it, it honestly gives me the shivers every time I think of it I nearly tripped over it trying to get away I actually thought I was going to have a heart attack I can still remember the feeling of sheer panic that took over me 🫣 I can cope with small/medium spiders but those big fuckers, Jesus no. They're horrendous--don't care who thinks they're beautiful because they're not!! 🤮

Oh OP you totally win the internet today.

Plastic spiders and elephant-horses😂

I can't sleep for laughing 😂😂

I'm not going to roast you! I am so bug-phobic that it's actually funny. We had a yellow jacket/hornet in the house some 30+ years ago. I am still recovering emotionally.

I need to live in a bug-free bubble (with a/c).

In your defense, plastic film can be pretty annoying too.

But not as bad as accidentally stepping on a huge basement centipede with a bare foot, from which I don't think I've yet recovered from and it happened circa 1985.

Grow up OP.

Also well done to those of you killing creatures that are no threat to you. Why are so many women such babies in regards to insects etc?

30 years? How do you get through life being this dramatic?

That reminded me of a reoccurring nightmare Ive had involving 100s of baby spiders. Starts with one giant venomous spider and I kill it and it bursts open and hundreds of baby spiders run everywhere. I always wake up just as they get to me.

@EliflurtleTripanInfinite oh my god that’s horrible

I have done quite well, thank you for asking.
I figure it beats being a judgmental witch with zero sense of humor and no clue of the definition of tongue in cheek. How sad. 😖

The primitive bits of our brains can jump to some (with hindsight) hilariously dramatic and wildly incorrect conclusions at times...

I LIKE spiders, I know most of the species I routinely see in our house, I can tell you their latin names... but, on finding a huge female steatoda nobilis marching up my leg one week whilst sat on the sofa, I immediately screamed and flailed around like I'd been electrocuted.

The time I found a huge hairy house spider in my cleavage I simultaneously stripped AND span in circles in the middle of my living room making noises my DP still can't quite identify... even more impressive, one hand was needed to drive the wheelchair to go round in circles so I had ripped my top off one handed... and I can't normally take my top off with TWO hands!

And DP has never let me live down the day I (admittedly, experiencing some anxiety at going out...) looked up at the sky, saw several giant black elongated triangle silhouettes gliding through the bright blue sky and exclaimed...

PTERODACTYLS!!!!!

They were hang gliders, obviously.

So yeah, doesn't matter if you're genuinely a complete wimp, absolutely adore spiders and creepy crawlies or somewhere in the middle, if your brain isn't keen on startles and reacts strongly to sudden surprises... it just does!

Why are people on here so argumentative

@widdlindiddlin The time I found a huge hairy house spider in my cleavage

My soul would've left my body if this happened to me

I honestly thought it had... I have a heart condition, I genuinely thought my final moment had come!

Once I was washing my hair in the shower, felt something a bit crunchy, looked at my hand and found a load of spiders legs in it. My only consolation is that it was probably worse for the spider.

Wow, this thread got derailed a bit, didn't it?

Just to reassure you all, the plastic spider horse is still alive (as much as a plastic spider horse can be). So for the bug lovers in the cheap seats at the back:

No spiders, moths or general creepy crawlers were harmed during the making of this thread. This thread is entirely non-fiction, and centred around an admitted wimp who enjoys amusing others with her general idiocy and total lack of common sense.

The thread maker wishes to thank:

Plastic spider horse- my star, my muse, my fucking terror.
Dear readers- hope you got a laugh at my cowardly antics.
Dear moaners- hope you get visited in the bath by a plastic spider horse, you seem to like the little bastards.

About 2 months ago at work I was moving a couple of boxes to a different room with about 3/4 colleagues in, as I picked up a box I scream so hard, dropped it and ran to the other side of the room, in doing so I scared everyone else because I thought there was a huge hairy spider and I'd just touched it. It was a hair ball 🤣🙈