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AIBU?

or do the tops of tomatoes LOOK EXACTLY LIKE SPIDERS?

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PoemGirl · 27/03/2014 15:29

DH left a huge tomato top on the counter after cooking the other night. It was crouching between cups like a massive great spider. I screamed

Then, a few minutes later I moved one of the cups and it wriggled. I'd forgotten about it so I screamed again

But they do, don't they?

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fluffyraggies · 27/03/2014 19:59

mwaha haa

true story though

lionheart · 27/03/2014 20:03

Yes, there is that old joke.

'What do you call a spider with no legs?'
'A raisin'.

Doesn't seem so funny now I've read that, fluffy.

The spider programme at the zoo looks interesting.

lionheart · 27/03/2014 20:04

bubble, the dog-duck thing is very odd.

Catsmamma · 27/03/2014 20:05

ooh why did I come in here??

ooh i remember....I used to put tomato spiders in the children's lunch boxes. :o

I'm alright with spiders so long as they don't chase me move.

lionheart · 27/03/2014 20:06

bad Catsmamma.

letsgomaths · 27/03/2014 20:07

I have heard they use tomato stalks when treating fear of spiders; get people to look at them to get them used to the idea.

FunkyBarnYard · 27/03/2014 20:10

Escaped red clawed crabs look like tarantulas here.... I freak out cause in never sure if it is the crab or not!

DinoSnores · 27/03/2014 22:02

curlytoes, it really does work. Out of the whole course (men, women, teenage boys, middle aged women, a cardiothoracic surgeon!), only one person hadn't held the house spider by the time I left and most of us (me included) had had our picture taken with Polly the red kneed tarantula! I can not recommend it enough. I had to make my DH deliver me there so I couldn't run away but it was great.

TaliZorahVasNormandy · 27/03/2014 22:30

An old friend of mine, when she was young, was helping her mum bake, reached to the back of the work top for a stray current and popped it into her mouth. Then, yes, you guessed it readers, she felt the 'current' opened its 8 legs across her tongue .....

So glad Im allergic to currents now....

Dahlen · 27/03/2014 22:31

Yes they do. When I was 8 I chased my sister halfway down the street with one.

TaliZorahVasNormandy · 27/03/2014 22:34

When I was 8 I chased my sister halfway down the street with one.

Lmao, Evil.....but so funny!!

crazynanna · 27/03/2014 22:34

One of my earliest memories (I am 50) is aged 4, trying to skip with my skipping rope outside Gran's house, very windy. The memory is hazy, but I remember screaming....neighbour (old man) comes out...and pulls a tomato stalk off my jumper. I must have thought it was a spider.

Comeatmefam · 27/03/2014 22:35

Why did I read this thread, I am now feeling and seeing spiders everywhere. I'm so phobic and I'm 47

TaliZorahVasNormandy · 27/03/2014 22:37

Other night, Found a spider calmly sitting on my pyjama trousers, got rid of the spid and didnt wear the trousers.

SavoyCabbage · 27/03/2014 22:39

YABU. Where I live the spiders are four or five times bigger than a tomato. Never mind the top of one.

BlackeyedSusan · 27/03/2014 23:30

oh ffs... I will not sleep for a week...

MrJollyLivesNextDoor · 27/03/2014 23:36

Savoy is moving to a different country not an option?

PoemGirl · 28/03/2014 08:17

Ha Savoy :)

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SavoyCabbage · 28/03/2014 08:56

Once I managed to put a Pyrex dish over the top of a huntsman (do NOT google) on the kitchen floor and it MOVED it.

Obviously I'm working on the emigrating.

PumpkinPie2013 · 28/03/2014 09:02

YADNBU!!!

I've screamed/jumped out of my skin on more than one occassion due to a tomato top

Humphrey I think I may have actually died if that had happened to me! I'm petrified of spiders.

Personally, I think it should be illegal to sell tomatoes with the tops still on

PoemGirl · 28/03/2014 09:04

Oh good god. Why did you have to say "do not Google"?! Obviously I googled.

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fluffyraggies · 28/03/2014 09:10

savoy ..... o.m. bloody GOD

There's a video on youtube of a guy (in Australia?) on a chair using a bowl to try to catch a bloody great spider which is on his ceiling. The thing falls/jumps on him!!!!

He screams, the person filming him screams .....

and the first time i watched it i actually screamed. DH found that hilarious. I cant watch it again!

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fluffyraggies · 28/03/2014 09:16

trying to link.

seriously this makes me jump every time! even though i know whats coming....

fluffyraggies · 28/03/2014 09:19

ha ha, just watched again it and nearly threw sleeping baby DD in the air!

fluffyraggies · 28/03/2014 09:25

Hilarious -

''be careful daddy''
''its fine, they're harmless''

......

ha ha

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