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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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TheBlackPanther · 02/05/2011 22:31

Jeez some of these messages make my encounter look like nothing

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MadamDeathstare · 02/05/2011 22:31

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CJMommy · 02/05/2011 22:33

Why, dear lord WHY did I open this thread???
I knew I shouldn't have
Bollox.....

FreudianSlipOnACrown · 02/05/2011 22:33

There was I, lying on the bed, relaxed and oh so very happy due to DH, um, making himself useful :o I felt a not-so good tickling on my arm, looked over and it was a fecking HUGE spider crawling up my arm Shock

Twas a bit of a moodkiller.

Although not quite as bad (sorry going off topic somewhat) as the time DH opened his eyes after having some quality time with himself and realised a SQUIRREL had climbed in the window and was sitting watching him. Confused

Sorry that's not relevant at all but I thought I'd mention it as a possible distraction from all the spiders...

AmazingBouncingFerret · 02/05/2011 22:35

LOL Freudian after hearing your squirrel story i'm never going to be able to see the Barclays tracker advert again without laughing.

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TheBlackPanther · 02/05/2011 22:37

LOL! Freudian! love it ROFL!

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HerRoyalNotness · 02/05/2011 22:37

I got stuck in a portaloo type toilet t a work site once. A huntsman was sitting under the handle of the door. Let's just say I have huge phobia, can't even look at pictures of them. It was home time and I didn't want to miss my lift. I threw toilet rolls at it and sprayed it with air freshner and it WOULD NOT move. !!! In the end I had to close my eyes, grab the handle and throw the door open and leap out. My colleagues asked me if I was okay when I went in the office as they said I looked like I was being chased by someone. Yes indeed, shudder

manticlimactic · 02/05/2011 22:38

I was playing hide and seek with my brother when I was about 5 and I hid behind the sofa. He knew where I was hiding and pushed the sofa at one end against the wall. When I went to crawl out at the other end was a huge spider and was petrified of them until I moved in with my then DP. He used to scream like a girl when he saw them and I remember one time a huge one being on the door frame to the street and he was battering it with his slipper for about 10 minutes. The neighbours must have thought he was demented. Hmm Now they don;t bother me since the man of the house couldn't deal with them.

My friends mum bought some curtains from carboot the day before when went away on holiday. She took them out of the box and put them on the dining table ready to be washed when she returned. My friend went down after getting a few bits on for her mum and was confronted with spiders the size of saucers all over the room. She thought her mum had decorated since she hadn't been down for a while as they lived quite a distance away!! She had to ring the EHO to come out. They reckon there were eggs in the curtain

I must admit I didn't believe her but she has a photo and it does indeed look like patterned wallpaper Grin

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TheBlackPanther · 02/05/2011 22:39

when perverted squirrls attack! Grin

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TheBlackPanther · 02/05/2011 22:40

was the squirrel looking for nuts by any chance?

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FreudianSlipOnACrown · 02/05/2011 22:43

:o

Just relieved the squirrel didn't try to bury them...

theluckiest · 02/05/2011 22:44

Oh dear god, why did I read this thread, why?

I too am very short sighted. Years ago I was having a shower. Got in, wt my hair, couldn't find my sponge...looked down & noticed a blurry brown thing on it which I took to be a hair ball (yes, this too would be disgusting). Picked the damn thing up and heard a crunch as I crushed a massive spider. I leapt, screeching out of the shower and my Dad heard the noise, came upstairs to find me starkers and dripping soapy water all over the bathroom floor.

My Dh also has a slug story - we keep our shoes in the porch. Dh was taking the dog for a walk one night and didn't bother to turn the light on to put his trainers on until he felt a cold 'squish' and wondered why his trainer was a bit tight. Yep, mahoosive, fat slug nestled in the toe. I'd never heard him squeal before.

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TheBlackPanther · 02/05/2011 22:44

ROFL! what a thought! Grin

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igetmorelovefromthecat · 02/05/2011 22:49

My dressing gown was on the drying rack in the kitchen and I was a bit chilly so I went to put it on, put one arm through the sleeve and I felt a sharp pain, so I shook the dressing gown on the floor in shock and a huge spider scuttled off across the floor. I had fang marks in my arm where the bugger got me.

She3po · 02/05/2011 22:51

Thelyckiest - I dont know what's worse the spider or your dad seeing you naked Shock

amberleaf · 02/05/2011 23:14

{shudders}

Why oh why did i read this?

Bearskinwoolies · 03/05/2011 04:16

Back in the days when I did shift work, I was in the shower getting ready for work and just happened to look up whilst shampooing my hair and saw a huge spider just above my head.

I completely freaked, and ended up running outside wearing a towel and shampoo, screaming like a loon. At the time we lived on a main road so a bus full of passengers at afternoon rush hour got to see me running down the street Blush

The bloke from next door kindly came to my aid; when he tried to catch the bloody thing it was too big to fit inside a pint glass!

This was in Essex - massive spiders there Sad

lulalullabye · 03/05/2011 05:02

I tickled one the same size as on my profile pictures whilst it was sleeping in the handle for the car boot. it was rather large. I was distracted and thought, hmmm that feels really soft and furry Shock. Twas the size of my palm!!

thumbwitch · 03/05/2011 05:22

BellaM - it's not "learned female helplessness bollox". I have never had an issue with spiders, well not until I moved to Australia anyway.
However, my first boyfriend's brother was phobic about them - I caught one in their sitting room once, was going to take it outside (standard UK tree spider) but thought I'd be mean have a bit of fun and waved it towards said bloke - he cleared the sofa in one leap to get behind it, he was so scared!!

Since being in Australia I've had 2 or 3 mentionworthy encounters:

  1. put DS into his buggy at the Newcastle Show, it was very sunny so I pulled down the hood and a redback fell out of it. Luckily only a small one (probably a male with hindsight) but it fell on the floor and was stamped on hard.
  2. putting DS into his car seat, suddenly caught a flicker of movement and there was a Huntsman the size of DS's hand on the back of the front passenger seat - it scuttled off and was never seen again (Although Huntsman spiders aren't really a problem - you pretty much have to stand on one before it will bite you and although it's a painful bite, it's not dangerous)
  3. sitting her MNing late one night in the dark, felt something on my shoulder -reached up to brush it off, and it fell into my lap and under the laptop. Put the side light on to see what it was - a whitetail spider! Although there is much debate as to the actual dangers of a whitetail spiderbite, I didn't honestly want to put it to the test so flicked the bloodything onto the floor, where it disappeared immediately.

I do get pissed off that I have to be so vigilant and violent with spiders here - but I am training DH to leave the housespiders alone because they eat the mozzies and flies.
Thankfully we haven't seen a funnel web yet, although DH did get a bit aerated about some of the black house spider webs, because they have a funnellly sort of appearance, so 3 black house spiders bit the dust before he would admit he had the wrong spider.(we have an electronic insect killing racquet zapper - loads of fun!)

Piggles · 03/05/2011 05:57

While I'm not a huge fan of spiders, I'm not terrified of them either. If they leave me alone, then I am usually content to leave them alone.

On one occasion, while I was working in a clothing shop a lady leaped out of a fitting room in her undies and streaked across the shop screaming her head off. She wrapped herself up in a handy winter coat, quite Blush to have attracted so much attention and quavered that there was a HUGE spider in the fitting room.

A couple of staff members wandered over to look and recoiled too. Other customers craned their necks to see and then backed away. I decided that as spiders don't freak me out too bad I would go pick it up and put it outside.

All the staff and some of the customers watched in amazement, some screaming as I scooped the big hairy beast up. I headed for the door, and as I got there the bugger of a spider escaped my gentle hold and ran up my arm and settled horribly and twitchily on my neck before trying to run across my face! I couldn't brush the monster off fast enough once I got outside with it.

Speaking of bugs on faces, one of my BILs was camping last summer and got woken up in the night when a scorpion ran across his face and bit him Shock Recently DH asked if I wanted to go camping this year at the same spot... funnily enough DH, no I bloody don't!

otchayaniye · 03/05/2011 07:14

When I was living in Egypt we stayed by the coast in a beach hut. I woke up to a start to see a large bottle of water right by my mouth. My husband had slammed it down to try a kill a camel spider that was crawling in my mouth.

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Now camel spiders aren't minding their own business, they actively seek live animals to suck blood from. So he wasn't just walking about and fancied my gaping mouth as a shelter. He wanted my blood.

The bedouin are terrified of them as they jump up top the bellies of their camels and latch on to suck blood.

Marne · 03/05/2011 07:34

When i was a teenager i thought i would sun bathe in the garden, i went into the green house where my towel was, got the towel, led down on the sun lounger, put towel on my head (to block out the sun) and began to nod off, after a few minutes i felt a throbbing feeling on my head, i chucked the towel on the ground to find the biggest house spider along with her nest. I was almost sick with fear (the thought of that being on my head) and was shaking for hours. Never again will i leave my towel in the green house or put a towel over my head.

ifancyashandy · 03/05/2011 07:36

You lot need me! I am the Queen of Spider Removal with Glass and Paper.

All Hail.

They eat the flies. I hate the flies .

Spiders rock.

Bucharest · 03/05/2011 07:39

I had one run across my face, but my worst critter experience was a sensient, intelligent, vindictive cockroach in Thailand. It was the size of a child's hand and chased me round the shower. Later, (I was packing it was our last night) I opened my zip top bag and the same bugger leapt out at me,and ran under my friend's mattress. We picked up asked 2 nice local boys to come and deal with it....they laughed and got cigarette lighters out and nuked the bastard. After sizzling for 5 mins...it shook itself, got up, and ran at me again.

kreecherlivesupstairs · 03/05/2011 08:13

Camel spider in Oman was huge and furry. I trod on it and it crunched in the same way a chicken does if your press on its breastbone.
DD screamed one night not long after she went to bed. I went into her bedroom to remonstrate with her. She told me something had bitten her and showed me two little red bits on her wrist. I spied a spider in her bed, picked it up and it bit me on the thumb drawing blood. It was tiny, about the size of the arrows where it says add a message. That was in Switzerland.