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I found a slug in my shoe!!

13 replies

BlueCookieMonster · 25/11/2018 08:48

AIBU to burn my house down?

(I do have pics, it did happen)

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Katiet123 · 25/11/2018 08:49

Can you not just burn the shoe? Less expensive than the house.

KC225 · 25/11/2018 08:50

Ecco gel liner?

BlueCookieMonster · 25/11/2018 08:52

KC225 lol! 😂

Ds1 says I should just burn the shoes as well.

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AamdC · 25/11/2018 09:05

I find them on iny sink and sometimes on the lounge carpet regilsrly shudder horrible slimy little fuckers.

LagunaBubbles · 25/11/2018 09:06

I'm just thankful our dishwasher is insured.... one got into it and blew the electrics, repair guy found it all frazzled in it!!! Shock

recklessruby · 25/11/2018 14:31

Ugh sympathy here. I once found a small worm in my converse shoe when I was walking down the road.
Looked totally mad wrenching shoe off and beating it against the wall.
Didn't burn the shoes (favourite white canvas ones) but washed them thoroughly afterwards. Yuk.Envy not envy.

KayM2 · 25/11/2018 14:35

Ghastly. I used to live in an old house with a downstairs bathroom, across a kitchen with a stone floor. Bare foot, it certainly banishes the last remnant of sleep, doesn't it?

hooveringhamabeads · 25/11/2018 14:40

If it makes you feel better...I was walking back from the pub in the summer, in the dark, wearing flip flops. It was during the very long dry spell that we had and so imagine my surprise when I felt a splatter of wet spraying up my leg whilst walking along.

I put the torch on my phone on, and it turned out I had stood on one of those huge juicy orange slugs 🤢. It had literally exploded all over my flip flop, foot and lower part of my leg. I had slug juice between my toes 🤢🤢🤢.

Luckily I wasn’t far from home so I took my slimy flip flop off, and hopped the rest of the way (don’t know if you’ve ever tried hopping in the dark after 3 pints of cider...it must have been a sight to behold). When I got in I scrubbed my foot and leg pretty much raw.

Yuck yuck yuck.

CoodleMoodle · 25/11/2018 14:41

If I end up going to hell, this is what I'll face. We once lived in a horrible damp flat and the disgusting things used to come in under the skirting boards. Once I went to pull the cord for the light in the bathroom and there was one on the bloody wall right by my hand. If I'd touched it you would've heard my screams for miles.

Awful creatures. Burn everything OP!

sossages · 25/11/2018 15:01

Burn the shoe and move house.

We used to live in a house where they came in through these stupid ventilation things that some genius had installed at ground level. Our whole part of town was infested with the fuckers as there were no natural predators, and on a damp night they'd be all over the pavements waiting to catch you with their vile slimy ways. If one had been trodden on you'd see all its mates clustered round it eating it. Ugh ugh ugh.

Anyway we moved 300 miles away to a place with an actual ecosystem. They have natural predators here and know to stay outside. I highly recommend this approach.

jakesmommy · 25/11/2018 15:42

I once tried on a fat slug bare foot in my house, it had somehow managed to get inside probably brought in on the fur of my cat, it was about 15 years ago but I still remember it!

BlueCookieMonster · 25/11/2018 20:52

I’ve stood on one barefoot, it’s horrific!

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22Giraffes · 25/11/2018 21:06

I pulled one out of the washing machine recently, it was attached to a t-shirt (not mine thankfully!) Sad

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