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.

I'm just going to pretend I didnt read this.

She's a beauty!

Emergency Clotted Cream!

This summer, our village fete was a postponed a day beforehand due to an Amber weather warning. I help run the refreshments stall & we serve cream teas with scones & clotted cream. I'd already bought 4 catering packs of clotted cream, so put them in the freezer as the new date was 2 weeks later & the cream would go off before then.
I read online how to defrost clotted cream, followed it to the letter but the morning of the fete it was still solid. Took it to the fete - it was hot, left one pack out & it defrost led but became liquid. On our test scone the cream just ran off (it was the consistency of single cream). The other packs were still too frozen to use. And we had 156 scones to sell.
So at 1.50pm - 10mins before the fete was due to open I had to hightail it to Lidls & bought 24 tubs of emergency clotted cream.
I got back 10mins after the fete had started but at least we were able to provide proper cream teas.

Spiders in my house receive the business end of a flip flop.

Frankly I think the emergency slippers are more likely to have a spider in them, and that's a thought to prostrate me with horror.

I noticed today that the conker trees are getting ready to drop. My dear friends dad collects a shoebox for me every year.

After all this talk of spiders, I've just ordered a set of plug-in spider repellers.

Not read the whole thread, as it’s half ten at night, and I’m pooped…
However, although I don’t particularly like surprise spiders clinging to clothing or towels etc, at this time of year it’s the drowsy irritable wasps that I’m scared of!
If I accidentally put my hand (or worse!) on a wasp that’s enjoying free accommodation, he (or she) might give me a sting for disturbing them?
see also the carpet for the same wee beasties, and therefore need slippers to avoid a a foot sting.
off to sleep 😴 now , night night all …

Nah, don't bank on it. I have a cat and the spiders walk past him doffing their cap and he just watches them go by 😑

Judging by her expression, the rugby jumper isn’t quite to the chicken’s sartorial tastes, but she’s resigned to wearing it as an emergency garment.

I emergency panic bought a kiln and potters wheel two weeks before lockdown. Despite having zero knowledge of pottery or any means to use/store it. I didn't even have any clay nor know where to buy the stuff! Never used a kiln in my life but to be fair I was quite enjoying my daughters polymer clay made your own animal set 😳. My DH hung his head in despair when I told him he needed to go his a van and collect those. They sat in the living room for 11 months before being sold on 🤷🏼‍♀️. Bloody eBay and ADHD

This reminds me of when DS was 9 and fell into a very slimy and stinky pond in Sintra in Portugal and we had to find him a complete change of clothes before getting back on the train. There were only a few market stalls and he ended up with a pair of wildly striped turquoise Peruvian trousers in a woman’s size 8 which he was absolutely delighted with and refused to take off for the rest of the holiday.

LOL @BestIsWest - Shorts looked OK on DS, but he's refused to wear them again; I probably should have just pretended they were kids ones!

Im not sure those spiders were all dead .Spiders grow by shedding their exoskeleton so its quite likely that you have slightly bigger spiders secreted around your house.

@Trenda Oh god thanks for that 😅Good job I have a lot of cellar spiders too to eat the fuckers.

Pretty sure it’s the spiders themselves though so I’m holding out hope!

Luckily I'm not scared of spiders after 40 years of living in old country houses. Which is good as my spiders aren't polite and hang around in towels, no.... they have the audacity to go and build webs every night across my inner porch door so when i go to work at a very unsociable hour I get a gob and face full of Web.

I did manage to hit my daughter in the face with a massive dead spider the other day when I got my camping chair out and it flew out as I put up. I had to pretend it was a bit of dead grass.

ExH went camping once and forgot literally all of his clothes. Emergency clothes run to the supermarket except they had nothing in his size so had to wear clothes too small.