To feel slightly traumatised by this...?

[Davincisvault]

Last night just before bed I went to have a wee. Sat down, wee’d, pulled the toilet paper (must have slightly scrunched it up) went to wipe and a MASSIVE fucking house spider was wriggling between my fingers, in the toilet tissue I screamed the loudest I’d ever screamed, jumped up and flung the tissue and spider across the room. DH then came running up after hearing me scream and got it out for me. It was so almost on my bite before I saw it and honestly my skin was crawling all night.

I was shaking, felt sick!! I should add, I have a massive fear of spiders and house/ field spiders whatever they’re called just send me over the edge.

It took me ages this morning to pluck up the courage to go into the bathroom and have a wee!! HOW I didn’t notice that massive fucker last night I’ll never know, but I was dopey and half asleep I’m guessing that’s why!!

YANBU! I would have have thrown up and passed out! I once threw up after touching a dead daddy long legs (it looked like hair) off my bag, for about an hour I was constantly cringing and feeling nauseous, it was awful!
I also always check ceilings for wolf spiders as years ago one fell on my head when I got out the shower! I’m absolutely terrified of them and find them revolting.

I'm with you OP! I don't have a huge problem with spiders - I'm usually the one who gets them out in our house (in a little box, not brave enough to touch).

But a couple of nights ago I was brushing my teeth and one dropped down from the ceiling...on to my toothbrush handle...and had a leg on my lip!

It must have sounded like a wounded Bison had hauled up in our bathroom as I couldn't get out of it quick enough and couldn't get the door open!

I would react the same!

A few years ago I had a lodger. I went away for the weekend and when I came back he had made a bed up in his lounge.

The night I went away, he saw an enormous spider in his bedroom and he had closed the door and not been back in the room since. This was Monday - he was still wearing the same clothes, including pants and socks that he had had on since Friday.

I don't know what he would have done if I was away longer.

I once picked up a towel and dried my face, looked in the mirror and saw a massive fucking spider on the side of my face. I screamed so hard that I felt like my throat was bleeding, I slapped the spider (as in, slapped myself across the face), the spider fell down my top. I swear at this point o felt like I was going to have a heart attack. I ripped my clothes off and was just slapping myself all over. I was bright red and traumatised by the end of it and I’ve never got over it. I have arachnophobia.

PS I couldn't find the spider when I went in but said I had caught it and released it outside to put his mind at rest.

My dd was wiping her face with a bath towel and a wasp crawled out of it.

@GisAFag

Wow, Imagine not seeing it, wiping and ending up with spider babies up your fanny

Quite the imagination you have there....

At least you noticed it OP. I wiped one onto my arse recently. Extra checking before using toilet paper now.

Wouldn't bother me if it was a spider. But any sort of rodent and I'd feel exactly the same! My dad would be summoned from 30 miles away to remove it. The cats would be useless in a situation like that. That's if I didn't burn the house down first!

I read this wrong and thought you'd found it after wiping. I thought a spider had been chillin' in your nether regions.

YANBU. I'm not all that bothered about spiders usually.

On a rare night without children, I stayed over with a friend with a plan to go out for dinner and a few drinks. She was in the shower when I heard an almighty blood-curdling scream. Rushed in, and there she was, looking in the mirror with mad staring eyes. She'd scrubbed her hair with a towel to dry it a bit - and there, on her head, was a huge, massive, hairy spider. She was frozen. I was frozen. The spider was frozen. After some seconds I grabbed the towel and swiped her round the head with it, towel and spider flew across the room, we both screamed and fled downstairs for gin.

We never actually managed to get out for dinner, too traumatised.
And pissed. Got a take away instead. For spider lovers, after a couple of large gins I re-entered the bathroom with a glass and a bit of card, rescued the spider and put it outside. It looked ok but was perhaps a bit deafened. It was quite fun in retrospect.

X posted with Hindsite Not an unusual occurrence then!

Hindsight- similar thing happened to me. I found it under my boob 😲

I once sat down on the loo, looked down, and there was a traumatised spider in my pants.

Revenge. But also, urgh.

That has made me feel quite weak....

Nah fuck that id have passed out tbh

I’m traumatised reading about it! This is my worst nightmare. Many years ago I woke up to a web full of baby spiders across my kitchen doorway I didn’t realise until I walked through it. I screamed more than I did in labour that day. Now I check doorways before walking through them, despite the odd looks from people who don’t know about my paranoia

OP, I’m sure you’ll love this birthday card - sent last year to son in law!

I feel your pain Op. I couldn’t sleep last night so went downstairs and had a nice cold glass of water. I sat in the lounge sipping my drink, next thing I see something jump out the corner of my eye. It was a huge jumping spider that landed on me. I screamed and called DH downstairs at 2.30am to come and get it and woke my poor DC at the same time.

In I nice reached for my packet of always ultra towels and it was the last one. I reached in and there was a MASSIVE spider living in the bag. I noped out of there and called dh...

@SweetPetrichor
Please enlighten me because I am desperate to overcome my terror and every autumn I declare this is the year ! But sadly been terrified my whole adult life! How did you turn it around ? I am willing to try anything ( as long as it doesn't involve reading about them , looking at pictures , handling them or in any other way having to deal with them or course ).
No seriously what worked?

@GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER - that's brilliant!!

I'm squirming reading these replies!!

There was a big fat fucker of a spider dead in my hallway the other day. I'm glad I was dead but it's terrifying to think it had been in my house just strolling around for days...

My parents had a mahoosive one last night, I can't handle it knowing they can just pop up at any moment!! I live by myself too so no one to hear my screams and save me

Sorry Op, but I'm amused that you were 'slightly' traumatised.

I got out of the bath last night and looked down and there was a largish spider sitting on top of the towel on my chest ! I don't mind spiders as such but it did freak me out a bit. There seems to be loads of them around at the moment !