To ask if you’ve ever bought something ridiculous as an “emergency”?

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Lighthearted.

I’ve not owned house slippers for years as an expat in warmer areas. However, now I’m back in the UK for part of the year hopefully and… Autumn? Spiders? I don’t remember this? I shouldn’t have ignored all those MN threads.

I get up every night due to pain. Twice now, I’ve seen a dark mark on the floor, shined my phone light on it, and it was a moderate-to-enormous-sized spider, waiting to get under my bare foot and/or scare me to death (which I admit, is my fault, not the spider’s). When I told the friend I’m staying with, he just NONCHALANTLY told me yes, in autumn, despite the lack of pampas grass out front, all the houses in the country become swingers’ mansions for spiders.

Also, I mean, not to get philosophical, but if they live somewhere else, and then they come here where there’s a danger of being in “public” and getting caught, does that mean that doing it in a human house is the spider equivalent of dogging?

Obviously I ordered emergency slippers for this obvious emergency. But I feel like a complete arse telling anyone that I ordered “emergency” house slippers… and I will NEVER tell how long I took picking them out (I take muuuch longer to decide whether something is worth an extra £5 than I used to).

SO. What lighthearted thing have you ordered, or gone out to buy, due to a sudden “emergency,” that you’d prefer no one ever know about?

VOTING

YABU - Slippers are magical and it’s your own fault for not already having some. You deserve a spider stand-off at 2am.

YANBU - Say less. My emergencies have smaller emergencies as pets; it’s the main reason I have Amazon Prime.

just check your slippers for spiders before you put them on..:

Unfortunately this isn't a joke I know 🤣🤣🤣

What a nightmare! Good luck OP.

Not me but DH had to buy some (moderately) sexy pants after the airline temporarily lost his luggage. The only underwear option available at the time were some quite tight and short shorts. He's normally more of a standard baggy boxers type of guy. He was happy to have his suitcase back two days later.

I yabued because I am a big slipper fan.
Not a shameful memory but I spent £50 on some emergency summer shorts when toddler ds had an accident just before school pick up. Only shop was £££ and I almost bought some marginally cheaper grey wool flannels. We then emigrated to a sunny place and with trips home in the summer he must have worn them hundreds of times.

I would consider any purchase involving avoiding spiders as a genuine emergency 😂

I always give my towel a shake before drying myself after a shower too because sometimes spiders are clinging to it

A shake doesn't cut it. I hold mine out flat and inspect both sides!

I’m confused about why another shoe/ sandal/ flip flop / book / anything couldn’t be used for spidery purposes.

I’m also very excited to discover whether everyone on mn has special spider slippers and I’ve just been completely oblivious to the requirement. 😁

Hate to tell you this, but the spiders are in the house year round. They are just more visible this time of year as they are looking for partners.

I did have to make a funny emergency buy recently - we were on holiday in South of France, decided to take day trip to Monaco. Now on top of the disaster of trying to understand the satnav directions in the maze of tunnels going into Monaco, DS, 12, throws up on his shorts. I realise with horror that there are possibly no high street stores at all in Monaco in which to buy a pair of affordable shorts. Satnav identifies a shopping mall, we park there are and it is indeed a big shopping mall. Where every single shop is highest of high end designer, even children's wear, no chance I could find anything for less than €200 there, even for a child.

I find 5 minutes away the single high street store, a branch of Zara. But no children's dept... however I figure Monaco is probably full of women who live of half a grape a day, so I just need the smallest women's shorts I can find, so I have I spend €25 on denim shorts, size 6. Given they fitted my small, very skinny 12yo, I do worry slightly that there are adult women who can wear them!

Your bare foot wouldn't be molested by the beastly spider

Emergency slippers are entirely logical.

I panic bought a paddling pool at 8pm in Tesco last night.

Omg , never checked out towels before !

Meant to quote this!

I did that last year. My new fan is arriving today (via next day delivery…)

When I had a bad cold a couple of years ago, I reached for The Dressing Gown Of Doom and the most enormous spider I have ever encountered was clinging to it. Alas, I had lost my voice due to said cold and couldn’t shout DP (who was in the garden) for help, and spider was between me and the bedroom door. I ended up banging on the bedroom window and thankfully DP understood that to mean that I was in dire straits. Even he agreed the spider was a fearsome beast, and he usually loves the creepy little bastards

I bought an emergency sun hat from a market at an exorbitant cost of £25 as I was about to start chemo and had been told to keep out of the sun.

Little did I know that chemo would leave me so sick that I would miss the entire summer.... Still spending most of my time in bed.

I didn’t mean take off the shoes you’re wearing (I’m always barefoot in the house anyway)… I meant surely there will be other shoes available in the house.

Or should every room be equipped with emergency slippers? Wall mounted perhaps. I’m fascinated that everyone seems to have them.

That’s brilliant. You couldn’t have been in a worse place on the planet to try and buy cheap children’s clothes 😆

I once had to order emergency bread and butter puddings and have them collected from M&S by bike courier.
Boss was having a big wig to dinner who had been to school in the UK and had a penchant for stodgy puds 😁

I learnt the hard way to check towels after I found a house spider with a wingspan of about 3 inches on my shoulder once. I always use my phone light for the 2am wee

There's an absolute giant prowling around our house at the moment. We've called him Jacob.

I think the slippers are for wearing so that she doesn’t accidentally touch the spider and scare herself in the middle of the night, not for killing the spiders.

We brought an emergency kitten in lockdown, little moggy cost is £400, lucky we luffs him!

I’ve misunderstood entirely then 😁

Full sized Brexit freezer.