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whats your bad experience with a spider?

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TheBlackPanther · 02/05/2011 20:58

I'm probably going to regret asking this but what is the worst thing thats happened to you when it comes to spiders?
I had one run across my face in the middle of the night YUK!
And my dad stepped on a big big! spider during the night without realizing! and next morning he found its dead body on the bottom of his foot! And my poor mum felt sick when she realized that had been in the bed all night.

I for one am waiting for my first encounter with a house spider this spring/summer and it could be any day now coz they have already started next door!

sorry i'm rambling i just hate them so much!

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mumblechum1 · 02/05/2011 21:00

We have a fourposter and until recently, spiders would abseil from the top bit down onto me/my book.

I have now taken off the top drape.

marmaladetwatkins · 02/05/2011 21:01

I was sat on my bed wrapped in a towel, drying my hair when I felt a tickling sensation on the inside of my thigh. I knew what it was without looking, then I saw it scuttle across my bed. A big, crunchy house spider. I ran down the street to my mate's house, in my towel.

wook · 02/05/2011 21:03

Dh swears a big one reared up at him once (aaarrrgghhhh!)

I once reached out to get loo roll and a giant spider bigger than my hand was sitting on it aaaarrrrrgggghhhh so I tried to run with jeans round ankles and fell face first on floor. The spider laughed at me.

maGicGift · 02/05/2011 21:03

EEECCCKKK there was a massive spider in the corner of my bedroom today, one of those big thin evil ones..! I hate it when they lay eggs then they hatch and all those little spiders go creeping everywhere... ewww, no story - sorry, just a hatred for spiders!

jojane · 02/05/2011 21:03

When we were in France in a tent I finished my cup of tea to look down and yes, in the bottom of the cup was a dead soggy huge spider!!

OTTMummA · 02/05/2011 21:04

I did a handstand and one fell on me mid way through, i ran around hysterical, trying to get it off me, it.was.massive.

I also saw one slowly descend into my sisters cereal bowl from the ceiling one morning, and remember being to terrified to say anything, still can not eat shreddies.

When i lived on my own when at uni i had a first floor studio, laying in bed, the wrong way watching t.v, felt a little somethin on my foot, so i shook it, thought nothing of it, fell asleep, woke up, went to pick up my glass of water, inside was the monster that i had obviously felt in the night and kicked it into my glass!

Oh and when i wa 6 months pregnant having a shower, one decided to pay me a little visit through the air vent thing, ( i had spd ) and it was the most excruicating pain trying to get out of the bath quick enough.

Hardhatonamission · 02/05/2011 21:04

I got bitten by one and ended up in hospital with a gaping wound that wouldn't heal. Is that bad enough? :o

ginmakesitallok · 02/05/2011 21:04

We were staying in a wooden chalet a few weeks ago - full of the bloody things. One night I felt a tickle on my arm, reached across and grabbed the biggest f**r you can imagine. Chucked it straight off the bed. Then realised I'd chucked it into DD2s cot. Thought about it for a while and then Blush figured she was asleep, wouldn't notice etc etc Blush and went back to sleep Blush

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TheBlackPanther · 02/05/2011 21:05

OMG! the thought of a spiders dropping on me eeeeeeeew! is all i can say!
Not sure why i started this thread really coz i'm probably gonna have nightmares tonight i'm that scared lol!
But i find peoples experiences so interesting Grin

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PaperView · 02/05/2011 21:05

I had one sat on my cheek for ages once when i woke up. Just staring at me tapping its foot. No really!

plantsitter · 02/05/2011 21:06

When I was a kid I was playing a game of 'funfairs' with my sister in which we devised little games in the garden for each other to do and then did the whole 'roll up! Roll up!' thing.

I decided to invent a game with the hollow plastic tubes from our Wendy house, in which you had to suck through the tubes and pick up plant pots and transport them across the lawn.

I thought I'd try this out before opening the game to my public, so I put my mouth to the tube and gave a hearty suck. You can guess the rest. Yep, I sucked up an enormous and rather disgruntled spider, along with its web, right into my mouth. It somehow survived and scuttled off angrily, I gave an almighty scream and I went off playing that game (and spiders) after that.

OTTMummA · 02/05/2011 21:06

Now, strangely i don't get sacred and scream, i just get angry with them and don't rest until they are dead.
I even squashed one recently with my bare hand because i was so incensed at it being there!

OTTMummA · 02/05/2011 21:07

scared*

MadamDeathstare · 02/05/2011 21:09

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TethersEnd · 02/05/2011 21:09

Not me, but an ex colleague. Stlll makes me shudder...

One night, she woke up thirsty and took a massive swig from the glass of water by her bed. She says she felt it unfurl in her mouth.

She pulled it out of her mouth and flung it against the wall. It made a thud.

I keep a bottle of water with a lid on by my bed now.

FirstVix · 02/05/2011 21:11

Ooooh no - me me me...

A couple of hours into school once (I teach) I felt lots of tickling in my bra strap and assumed it was a hair. But it was really distracting me.
So, I tried to discretely remove it (as I was in front of year 10s) and pulled out instead one of those fat, thick, shiney spiders that lived in my then garden, wriggling its legs merrily between my finger and thumb.

HOW LONG HAD IT BEEN THERE!?!?!?!

bigbumum · 02/05/2011 21:11

EEEEEEEWWWWWWWW

stop it, every one just SHUT UP.

nononon, shut up all of you.

you are making these things up....NNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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TheBlackPanther · 02/05/2011 21:14

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!

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TheBlackPanther · 02/05/2011 21:15

I'm starting to scratch just thinking of the hairy little beggers!

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cecinestpasunepipe · 02/05/2011 21:16

Not me, but DH.On holiday in Cuba, I was having an early morning cigarette on the porch of our bungalow, when I heard the most horrific howl come from within. I rushed inside to find that DH who had still been asleep in bed, had been bitten on the balls by a HUGE HAIRY SPIDER (body about 3 -4 cms in diameter plus head plus hairy legs and pincers). Although it really hurt for a couple of hours, it didn't turn out to be as bad as some of the insect bites we picked up on that holiday. We must have been sharing the bed with the brute all night! Needless to say, for the rest of the holiday, I stripped and inspected the bed every night before getting in. Still just about the best holiday we've ever had though!!

TattyDevine · 02/05/2011 21:17

Nothing really happened as such but when I was a little girl I overturned some rocks in the garden (as you do) and there were pretty spiders with lovey red bits on their backs. So I ran to show my Dad. He came running out and nearly hit the roof then called some man in a uniform who came and took them away.

(This was in Australia by the way, they were <a class="break-all" href="http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=wordsaboutthings.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/red-back-spider.jpg&imgrefurl=wordsaboutthings.wordpress.com/2010/06/15/the-5-most-dangerous-animals-in-australia/&usg=__rUP9T1NoMgxASXgNBZkbZbCx528=&h=236&w=325&sz=29&hl=en&start=0&sig2=131kswaY_1BiBM2p5dvwZA&zoom=1&tbnid=SWEKwWw53oTwHM:&tbnh=134&tbnw=173&ei=IxG_TeDwGcyy8QPdu_mPDg&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dredback%2Bspider%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26biw%3D1076%26bih%3D420%26tbm%3Disch&um=1&itbs=1&iact=rc&dur=327&page=1&ndsp=10&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0&tx=151&ty=64" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">these bad boys )

NorbertDentressangle · 02/05/2011 21:17

I have a few:

-lying in bed, snuggled up reading a book so only my arms out of the duvet. A huge spider came into view crawling up my forearm. I threw my arms out to the side and bashed my hand really badly on the wall next to the bed.

-sitting on our sofa quietly watching tv when a massive spider dropped from the double height ceiling above. I swear to god it landed with a really loud THUD on the sofa.

-as a teenager I was drying my hair, looking in a mirror in my bedroom when, in the reflection, I saw a spider in the folds of the curtain on the other side of the room. The curtains were moving FFS! It truly was massive -the fact I could see it from that far away on dark curtains shows how big it was. I had to get my brother to get rid of it and even he nearly wet himself!

-most recently....woke up one morning really thirsty and reached out for my glass of water, took a drink and then some sort of sixth sense kicked in. I'm not sure why but I stopped drinking and turned the light on...in the bottom of my glass was a massive, perfectly formed spider that completely filled the bottom of the glass (one of those big Ikea American diner style glasses so not a small one). I thought it was a plastic one to begin with, but no it was real and very dead.

ginmakesitallok · 02/05/2011 21:18

I've got a good slug story if you prefer?? Was cleaning out one of those spanish ashtrays (you know the ones with the wee tower thing in the middle, fill the outside with water and put a lid on??) Anyway, gave the bit inside the tower bit a good old rub round with my finger, felt something horrible slimy/gushy inside it, pulled my finger out with a completely squished slug on the end..............ewwwww

cyb · 02/05/2011 21:19

I killed a Huntsman Spider in Australia with a tennis racket

WasOnceAnEight · 02/05/2011 21:19

I once went to pull a piece of toilet paper off the roll and a great big spider flew at me from the top of the roll and landed on my front.

Not quite as bad as the one that ran up the stairs whilst my mum was on the phone - my mum's house is over 300 years old and attracts wolf spiders. She normally puts them outside with a glass jar but this one was so big she whacked it with the phone book and to this day still feels bad about killing it.