To have just screamed like a banshee...

[Gruffy]

...At a very terrifying piece of cotton that was pretending to be a spider?

:o yanbu.

My mum screamed the house down at a tomato spider.

Depends what colour the piece of cotton was!

Tomato spiders are scary! They're huge and ready to pounce until you realise that they're green and not moving

YANBU I probably would have done the same. Tomato spiders are evil!

Howling at tomato spiders, going to use some to freak out my spider hating DP.

YANBU

Yesterday a ribbon thingy on my PJ's brushed my arm, I screamed and jumped thinking it was a spider
Tomato spiders freak me out too

Some people got hysterical over the grass snake under the sideboard, that was a tie.

Tie snakes are scary.

Was it high pitched and yelpy or single note iooooooooo? We need to know...

Also, do you do the anti web figure of eight hand wave before going thru hedged path and gate ways? I look like a reject from a tai chi class. Unfortunate.

I was trying to find the bit of cotton that was hanging off my dress and tickling my thigh...only to discover it was a huge spider!
I think my scream caused an earth tremor

Hahahahah! YAsooooNBU

There may have been a strange hopping dance involved..

In my defence it did look ready to pounce but I killed it with my door stop.

I have a special spider scream, no other thing on gods green earth causes me to make such an undignified noise!

It is highly embarrassing and only happens when I am confronted by a spider.

It goes a little like this oooaaahaahhuuuuurrrrgggaaaa and is usually accompanied by a strange little 'pony cantering on the spot' type jump

The bigger the spid, the louder the noise and the bigger the jump.

The worst thing is that's it's completely involuntarily - I even do it in public without realising

Last night I dreamt about a big spider on the ceiling above my bed, I woke up to find myself butt naked and cowering on the other side of the room, demanding in a very loud voice that DP turn the light on so I could see where the bastard was!

Totally irrational - I know there's no spider, it's dark so I wouldn't have been able to see it anyway, nevertheless it happens on a regular basis!

DH tells a hilarious story about brushing his hand against my hair when I was asleep.
Apparently I leapt up, screamed "SPIDER", walloped him and went back to sleep...
I am obviously super vigilant even at night

yanbu..

I woke up the other morning, blearily eyes noticed a black speck on the white bottom sheet and went to flick it, thinking it was a bit of mud off the dogs paw..

the speck suddenly grew legs and ran.. I screamed...

I have never woken up so fucking quickly..

A broom hedgehog made my Mum cry in 1989. "It's nose, it's evil nose!" was the cry.

Oh how we laughed. Teenagers are not the most caring of human beings.

Don't worry I did my spider scream accompanied by flailing my arms around and jumping up and down AT WORK, thankfully only a coup,e of tables still in and eating but still I screamed the restaurant down, very embarrassing. Luckily boss thought it was funny, in my defence the slider had just crawled down my FACE

you are not alone.
I've done it when I found some black cotton thread on in a sort of ball on the beige carpet. I think I jumped a few feet up in the air while screaming.

At a very terrifying piece of cotton that was pretending to be a spider?

yanbu I once screamed at drier fluff cos i thought the cat had brought in a mouse

Lol Yama. Your poor mother.

My mum used to hollar at non spiders too!

My DH did the same just the other day.

He was in the marines ffs.