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AIBU to leave my dinner because a HUGE spider walked over it?

35 replies

EnnieJuan · 25/11/2017 12:27

No idea where the spider had been (drainpipe/cobweb/somewhere else dirty or dusty). It may have had small feet but 8 of them on my dinner was just too many.

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StarlitTrees · 25/11/2017 12:28

What was the dinner?

Namechangetempissue · 25/11/2017 12:28

It would make me feel a bit 😷 -I get it.

PoorYorick · 25/11/2017 12:30

Chuck it, for sure.

TheNumberfaker · 25/11/2017 12:32

Yuk, in the bin for sure!

WhatALoadOfOldBollocks · 25/11/2017 12:33

It wouldn't bother me provided the spider wasn't sat in my dinner staring at me.

MaidOfStars · 25/11/2017 12:55

It’s a spider. What will it have left?

You know that your food is probably teaming with things far more boak-worthy than spider footprints? Especially if you have veg on your plate.

Eat it! Grin

Kickassname · 25/11/2017 12:57

It's dynamite time.

fudgefeet · 25/11/2017 12:59

It's better than finding half a spider on your plate. I noticed half a wood louse on my fork a few months back when eating salad!

GladAllOver · 25/11/2017 13:03

I'd be far more worried about flies landing on food, because they vomit on it to dissolve it into juice to suck up.

That's why I'm always happy to have spiders in the house to keep the real pests down.

Leviticus · 25/11/2017 13:04

Spiders have dirty feet. Get rid.

TroysMammy · 25/11/2017 13:04

Depends whether he had his willy out or not Grin

Shockers · 25/11/2017 13:06

Was it wearing outdoor shoes?

GladAllOver · 25/11/2017 13:09

*Spiders have dirty feet. Get rid.
LOL! Have you ever examined a spider's feet? I have seen many under a microscope, and I can assure you they are very clean.

Nikephorus · 25/11/2017 13:11

Just blow on it and it'll be fine. Don't you pick stuff up when it falls on the floor, blow on it and eat it? (Yes I know blowing will do very little but...)

littlemisscomper · 25/11/2017 13:16

Shockers Hahaha!

elQuintoConyo · 25/11/2017 13:19

Had he just been to an eat-all-you-can Fly Buffet?

I'd eat it. Seems rather hysterical not to. Fly on my food - don't eat. Spider on my food - offer it a pea.

WowserBowser · 25/11/2017 13:20

I wouldn't be able to eat it. Because of the memory, not because of the dirty feet.

I have to switch IACGMOOH off when I'm eating.

RhiannonOHara · 25/11/2017 13:21

Glad, I'm intrigued. What kind of job involves examining a spider's feet under a microscope?

RedLemonade · 25/11/2017 13:21

Troy GrinGrin

I second the "what was the dinner?" question.** Could you scoop away the food underneath the spider's path?

EnnieJuan · 25/11/2017 13:26

It was only a sandwich and I did wonder about swapping the top slice of bread but still felt put off in case it had wiped its body along the edge whilst sauntering over my table

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Ameliablue · 25/11/2017 13:38

Not unreasonable at all.

GladAllOver · 25/11/2017 13:55

"Glad, I'm intrigued. What kind of job involves examining a spider's feet under a microscope?"
I expect there are researchers who examine spiders for a living, but in my case it's purely a hobby. Not the feet in particular, but all of them. They are absolutely fascinating creatures, and very beneficial.
I'm never seen dirt as such on a spider's feet. I suspect that it would be counter-productive to leave dirt on the strands of a web, when it walks on them.
There will of course be bacteria that don't show up on the microscope, but then they are floating everywhere in the air.

I would be far, far more concerned about contamination of food by a fly than a spider.

ToadOfSadness · 25/11/2017 13:59

Did it eat much?

Beansprout30 · 25/11/2017 14:09

Urgh bin it! And the plate

Beansprout30 · 25/11/2017 14:10

Urgh bin it! And the plate

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