whats your bad experience with a spider?

[TheBlackPanther]

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!

shut up i said or i seriously will fling or flounce or whatever you call it.

its not funny, EEEEWWWWWW

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AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

On the same day, while working in the garden, I was bitten twice by two separate spiders.
A smallish, shiny black one bit me in the crook of my elbow - that arm was achy for three or four days. A harvestman spider bit my other forearm - that one didn't hurt so much, but I came up in an intensely itchy rash, which only covered about an inch of arm. I thought it was quite interesting that they obviously had quite different venom.
This was in Scotland by the way, not Australia or America.

When I was 8 yeas old there was one on my bedroom ceiling. I was terrified and went downstairs to ask my Dad to get rid of it - he was pissed and thought it would be hilarious to throw it down the back of my pjyama top - cue hysteria so bad that the neighbour knocked the door and asked if we were okay. How mean was that?

I have been bitten lots of time by them - I get a horrible reaction. Used to live in the Middle East and we watched a humungous canle spider (dinner plate size) run across the floor and disappear into the couch - we never did find it. Have alos woken up at night with one unning acroos my bed.

Zillions of spiders in my back garden - you stand on the gravel and it looks like the ground is moving 'cos they all run off - literally hundreds of them in this particular place.

I don't mind them as long as they don't crawl on me so I pick them up and put them outside.

I have however, been awoken in the night with a terrible pain in my ear. Ran screaming into parent's room (they thought I was having a nightmare). My Mum put my head to the side a nd a big black beetle fell out of my ear - bleurgh! Cue more hysteria and years of checking all my bedding before sleep.

O'k there seems to be a'lot about spiders in drinks!
I have had a similar thing happen but it was not a spider.
I was saying goodnight to my boyfriend(at the time) and i had left a coke can unattended for about 10 minuets.
When i went back to it i took a swig and something huge went in my mouth A REALLY REALLY big black fly!
How the hell out of all the space in the room did it manage to drown in there during 10 minuets of being opened i will never know!

Sorry Camel spider.

During my nocturnal uni days, I was in my groundfloor bedroom of a shared house, watching Rabbit Proof Fence on my laptop. This massive, chunky beast of a spider ran over my duvet. I pretty immediately threw offending bedding onto the floor, but couldn't see the nasty creature. Eventually found a roll of wrapping paper and used that to push the duvet out into the hallway. Finished the film, very paranoia-filled-ly wrapped in a fleecey throw, and then slept in said throw. Not sure what my housemates thought at finding the hallway filled with duvet the following morning, but strangely no one mentioned it...

Now 'grown up' you've all got me looking around the house suspiciously, waiting for the eight-legged hoardes to make their move. They've been gathering in the garden for weeks now.

Had to kill one of these once

With an iron - the closest thing to hand! Blood everywhere!

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I was driving along one day when a spider let itself down from the sun visor
I swear it waved

Didnt bother me one bit as I like spiders, granny always said they were lucky, never kill a spider- they inspired Robert the Bruce

I too had a bad experience with a slug!
I have a bad habit of going down our garden with no socks or shoes on!
Its a habit i never grew out of and one day i nipped out when it was dark and came back with a fat slug between my toes! Twice thats happen'd so i don't learn do i?

Mine's not as bad as some of these, but was so awful at the time and I am so afraid of them, I was weeping and gibbering with fear and disgust for ages. I was showering away merrily soaping myself when I looked up and not three inches from my nose lurked the biggest, brownest, hairiest most malevolent looking bastard I have seen before or since, including in Fiji. I screamed, tried to run, slipped over and banged my knees hard, dislodged the spider off the shower curtain and into the bath which made me almost hysterical. DH broke the bolt in an effort to get in and caught it while I moaned naked in the corner. Afterwards I asked him what he thought had happened, given that he'd broken the lock. He said he'd guessed it was a spider I wasn't sure whether to be touched or insulted.

And this is why I can never ever go to Australia, much less live there.

Stuff and nonsense!

This is all learned-female-helplessness bollox - unless you're in Oz where there are a few poisonous ones.

My only slug experience was at my Grandparents when I was about 6 or 7.

I was sleeping in their spare room which, as they were keen gardeners, doubled as a greenhouse/storage spot for seedlings etc

I rolled over in my sleep and felt something on my cheek, I went to touch it and woke up just in time to realise I was peeling a huge slug off my face.

It must have dropped off one of the plants

If i scream these days my husband knows whats happened before he even enters the room (why do men always take their time to get rid of it? do they like to see you suffer? or is that just my husband?)

When I was 18 months old I wad sitting on the floor in the utility room whilst my mum was doing the laundry. She saw me grab something and shove it in my mouth. She stuck her finger in and fished out a spider two inches across.

It was still wriggling.

Yum!

MaGicGift do you mean <a class="break-all" href="http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=www.findaspider.org.au/find/spiders/images/508A10.jpg&imgrefurl=www.findaspider.org.au/find/spiders/508.htm&usg=__tiwnTJXfWcxzFRN47LNK3Vb40pw=&h=302&w=448&sz=44&hl=en&start=0&sig2=N95BlX7iP9Min6xforh5Cw&zoom=1&tbnid=V92yaUhO6sFGOM:&tbnh=117&tbnw=174&ei=ZxW_TabqLMa48gPGqvjVBg&prev=/search%3Fq%3Ddaddy%2Blong%2Blegs%2Bspider%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26sa%3DN%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-GB:official%26biw%3D1280%26bih%3D894%26tbm%3Disch&um=1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=496&vpy=117&dur=1208&hovh=184&hovw=274&tx=146&ty=115&page=1&ndsp=30&ved=1t:429,r:2,s:0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">these horrible things? They are evil. One tried to attack me when I was cleaning my teeth once, I first saw it in the bathroom mirror in front of me. Another descended towards me from the ceiling when I was in bed asleep, luckily I woke up before it landed on me

oh, and another spider one....

I was in my dressing gown in the bathroom running a bath. I took the lid off the bubble bath and was about to pour some in when a spider ran down the arm of my dressing gown. I, of course, went crazy waving my arms around etc and the bubble bath got flung and splattered around the bathroom.

No Bella, I disagree! I am not scared of almost everything else that many women are afraid of. Snakes, heights etc - fine. But the scuttliness and creepiness of spiders makes my skin crawl and my insides turn with disgust. It's nothing to do with being a girl.

There was a massive one in our bath when we returned from holiday last weekend. As DH flapped and ran around the bathroom, I remained very calm and put a little plastic bowl over it (one of those coloured Ikea kiddie bowls). At the last second of gently lowering it over the beast, it jerked and tried to make a bolt for it. Unfortunately for the spider two of its back legs were trapped under the bowl. It managed to PUSH the bowl off its trapped legs and started scuttling about the bath. DH was screaming like a girl by this point and so in desperation of him waking the kids I scooped it up in the bowl and flung it out the window where it landed on the conservatory roof with a very audible THUD.

We live in Leeds FFS!!

Hot sweet tea was served afterwards to calm the nerves!!

Two mornings ago DH woke at 6am with one inhis^ear. I thought that was a myth.

Aibu to put cotton wool in my ears at bedtime from now on?

I don't like this thread. Years ago, my dad promised me that spiders never go on or in your bed. And I believed him.

My worst experience was when I was driving along and I could just sense there was one in the car with me. It was huuuuge and clinging to the dashboard right in front of me.

I managed to turn left, stop the car & leap out, flicking the horrible beast on to the road.

I drove home, imagining it clinging to the underside of the car like Robert De niro in Cape Fear.

Found one in my bra , while I was wearing it

I don't know why I opened this thread, I will have to do a spider check.

There is a nest of them under the stones in my garden dd likes to run across them and watch the little barstards run everywhere.

people always say to me
"stop being silly! its gone now, it wont be back"
bun NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! not me! they ALWAYS come back! the little ......