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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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TooManyBlossoms · 02/05/2011 21:52

Oh God. I've seen some terrible sights googling things mentioned on MN. But I swear, those camel spiders are by far the most disturbing things I have ever seen. Even worse than blue waffle or dragon butter. Shudder.

firsttimemum77 · 02/05/2011 21:53

Arrrghh! I'm itching and getting very paranoid now!

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TheBlackPanther · 02/05/2011 21:54

Yep toomanyblossoms i see what you mean ewe!

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PoppetOne · 02/05/2011 21:56

Lol, loving this thread. My Parents house is always full of spiders but my Mum has put horse chestnuts everywhere this spring and so far she says not that many have appeared. Perhaps worth a try? Hmm

dementedma · 02/05/2011 21:56

God, i wish I hadn't read this thread. We get HUGE ones in the autumn, hurling themselves round the house and making me twitch at every single movement caught out of the corner of my eye.
I HATE the scuttly, hairy-legged fuckers!!!!!

memphis83 · 02/05/2011 21:57

When I was little in the South of France there was a massive spider on the steps of our chalet, my dad put the hose on it and HUNDREDS of babies washed of its back, the huge spider stayed there til all the baby spiders dried off, got on her back then it walked off!!
I was on a walking stick as I had mobility problems a couple of years ago and new neighbours moved in with spiders, When i was shown the bird eating one i forgot about the walking issue tried to run off fell on the floor and dramatically clawed myself away screaming to find it was only the skin it had shed, oh the shame

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TheBlackPanther · 02/05/2011 22:02

some of these messages are Hilarius! Grin

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DarkVictory · 02/05/2011 22:02

RSpeaker -same. My friend and I were travelling to a wedding. It was an old Mini Clubman and she was driving when a spider dropped down from the sun visor. We were travelling quite fast, but my friend so alarmed she lifted her arms and feet off the pedals and steering wheel at the same time and I had to grab the wheel to stop us dying crashing quite badly.

Said spider 'apparently' went down between her legs hence the reaction, and it took 10 minutes to convince her the spider had escaped (probably) whilst she stood at the side of the road crying.

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TheBlackPanther · 02/05/2011 22:05

tea break me thinks Brew anyone fancy a bicky? BrewBiscuit

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maighdlin · 02/05/2011 22:06

have to do the spider check now before bed. i have three vivid scary memories

  1. the massive one that ran out and crawled on top of the loo roll just as i was reaching for it. thank god DH was out in the hall i may have died of heart failure.
  1. the weird redish one that scuttled about my living room a few weeks after having DD. freaked out majorly. It was like a spider/giant ant hybrid. Managed through the tears and hysteria to put a pint glass over it. Watched it for 2 solid hours waiting on DH to come home. Made him put it into a Tupperware container and drive it at least one mile away.
  1. Being bit by some weird looking one in Vietnam. Wasn't particularly massive just felt this stab in my ankle then saw this thing scuttle away. Was brought to country hospital and had to try to describe it to a vietnamese doctor with not much english. ankle went purple and swole up to about 5 times the size it should have been. very painful to walk on afterwards. i was mostly freaked out by the fact that i had no clue what it was. At least back home you know they are not venomous, god knows what nasties are to be found in vietnam jungles.
shandyleer · 02/05/2011 22:07

I'm very short sighted without my glasses/lenses. One morning (pre dc fortunately), I went to the loo just as dh was leaving for work. Had wee, put glasses on - noticed massive great big huge ugly (you get the picture) spider on the bathroom door. I spent the entire day in the bathroom too scared to approach the door. I did try shouting out the window for help but since the window faced the back garden I was shit out of luck.

When dh finally got home (I'm going back years so this was pre mobile phone days), he simply refused to believe I'd been in there all day (and by the time he'd finished laughing, it was damn near all night as well).

I Do Not Like Spiders.

ItsCHEEKYTime · 02/05/2011 22:07

Eurgh i always check the bed before bed.

lovelabcoats · 02/05/2011 22:11

Conkers do work, I'm not bothered by spiders, my neighbour gets me to get rid of them when her DH is away. I just leave them, unless their in my bedroom.

I know my Mum chopped a bird eating spider in half with a garden spade when she lived in South Africa.

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TheBlackPanther · 02/05/2011 22:13

When i woke up in a caravan on holiday once my first sighting was hundreds of those tiny baby spiders dangling near my face.
My brother was not happy coz i made him get rid of every single one otherwise we would have to swap rooms lol!

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Counterstrike · 02/05/2011 22:13

One night, I had a nightmare that this massive spider was crawling on me, and so I immediantly woke up....and yep, there it was a massive spider crawling up my leg! Yuk.

Counterstrike · 02/05/2011 22:15

Oh and after I would NOT get back in that bed and checked it over before I got in for about a month...

Yellowstone · 02/05/2011 22:15

Freaky moment when the tiny army house we'd just moved into in the Californian desert was completely surrounded with tarantulas: a sea of them everywhere. Never happened in Surrey. I called the police (obviously) who only came because I was British (and new and hysterical and emotional with my first tiny two week old baby) and they told me our house had been built on the tarantula migration path.

I can deal with any spider now.

shandyleer · 02/05/2011 22:18

Oh, I really really wish I hadn't read this thread. Why did I? I hate spiders, I won't sleep now. I don't mind rats, mice, snakes etc but did I mention I don't like spiders.

shandyleer · 02/05/2011 22:22

Oh I've just remembered another time from years ago when I was reading in bed and saw a spider on my arm. Shrieked and ran for help - in the form of my dear old gran, who must have easily been in he eighties and who had been asleep. I remember her searching my room armed with a ruler and I wouldn't let her go til she found it (which she didn't).

Good tip from Yellowstone though - next time I'll ring the police Smile

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TheBlackPanther · 02/05/2011 22:22

i think we are all succor for punishment to want to know (especially me for starting the thread in the first place) Grin

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AmazingBouncingFerret · 02/05/2011 22:25

Who was the poster that ended up seriously injuring their DH because of her reaction to a spider? It was a very funny story, just wish I could remember it!

My worst spider story comes with a photo that's on my profile. Grin

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TheBlackPanther · 02/05/2011 22:26

I love miceGrin
(part from when they are in bits all over my carpet thanks to my cat Hmm)

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She3po · 02/05/2011 22:26

Feeling all itchy!

A big work spider that live down drains full of strong poisonous chemicals came home with me in my bag then crawled out on the sofa and ran across the floor. Dh stunned it with a broom before he could catch it in a glass and kill it outside with a brick.

bronze · 02/05/2011 22:27

We had one of those plug on the taps shower heads. IT was in the bath and near one of the sockets was a HUGE spider. So I very carefully picked it {shower} up (I'm pretty ok with spiders) and the spider ran up it.

So I didn't use it that day or the next opting for a jug. A few days later I decided to use it assuming it would have gone and rinsed it just in case.
Started washing my hair when I noticed a bit float past in the bath. Then I saw these things poking out of the holes, turned out they were legs.

I still feel sick thinking about it and this was 15? years ago

Also once had a spider land on my mouth just as I opened it. It was a pretty big one again. I made the parents seal up the loft door which was in my room after that.

When we moved into our first owned house we cleaned out the shed and found spider casts in their as big as tarantulas.

Now I will brave reading the thread

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