To have just screamed like a banshee...

[Gruffy]

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

My friend was helping me get things ready for a church service and she was in the tower when she gave the most earth shattering scream and rushed past me. Her very matterorfact sil strolled past me into the tower saying "that'll be a spider she has seen!"

Stitcthis - of the teenagers in the house I was the most sympathetic. I do believe my Mum has a real phobia of hedgehogs.

Now I know that I'm not the only person who is prone to leaping out of bed as a result of a Spider Dream.
My poor DP nearly dies of fright every time.

Mrs tiggywinkle has a lot to answer for

my cousin would not go in her bathroom all night after trapping a cellotape spider (huge apparently) under a glass!! bloody scary lol

YADNBU. I once screamed and ran across a road because of a huge snake on the pavement that, seconds later, turned into a length of tinsel.

It was dark, and it really was a seriously snaky bit of bastard tinsel.

I had the reverse of this. Scariest moment of all time. Fact.

Picture the scene... Roundly preggers, knelt on all fours sorting out dvd player glance at fireplace... "Oh thats a large bit of corrony fluffy stuff" thinks she, as she boldly goes to scissor-two-finger-pinch type grab it... When the sneaky arachnid bastard suspect darts towards her!! (me) dear reader I couldn't have lept to my feet (from a crouch) any more quickly if i'd of had a current up my bum!! electric not raisin obviously DP wondered who was attempting to kill me as i ran heavily pregnant screeching from the room to climb the kitchen worktop to safety.

A sight to behold. In a bad way!

In tears of laughter at pepperrabbit

My dad once rolled a coconut into the room and screamed 'RAT!'

Don't think my mum ever quite got over it

roughty that made me titter.. A coconut rat granade type experience for your poor mum!

Was honestly one of the best moments of my whole childhood!

I regularly get scared of tomato spiders.... IN MY LUNCHBOX after I've eaten the cherry tomatoes. Not the brightest bulb!

my husband threw a tomato spider at me once. still makes me laugh to this day!

Im not going to be able to sleep now :(

Blokes at work discovered that I'm bad with spiders - one of them pretended to throw a spider at me. All I had handy was a broom, which of course hit him when I swung it to knock the spider away...

I think he's forgiven me, but they've stopped the pretend spider nonsense now bastards