In shock - spider

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I’m not afraid of spiders.

however I’ve just sat in frozen shock and terror when a massive spider scuttled past me and came to rest in front of one of my daughters toys.

i dont know how to get across how absolutely huge it was.
I called my husband like a pathetic idiot - I couldn’t move! He thought I was taking the piss and didn’t come down until I literally begged because I’ve never called him for anything like that in 19 years!!!

He was shocked too but promptly got rid of it for me. It was so big - and fast running by - I thought there was a bloody small mouse in the house!!

Feel so bad I’ve wondered how people can be so afraid of spiders- I get it now 😭

The mum of the house, of a Twitter account I follow, was woken recently by the footsteps (footsteps!!!) of a big spider going up the wall.

Imagine something so big you hear it's footsteps 😱

I'm going to be sleeping with the light on again tonight now I've thought of it again...

They live in the house all year round (assuming we’re talking about the big house spiders?), we see them more in September because they come out of their hiding places to mate.

Someone told me that if you put them within ten feet of your house they find their way back in but I don’t know if that’s true!

Why do they always crawl into the bath, then they’re stuck. We now put a length of toilet roll in the bath and over the side for them to escape. I don’t kill then these days, I used to, but as I’ve got older I’m not so afraid of them.

theres no poisonous 1s in the world

Spiders are lovely! Even the biggest of them are tiny in comparison to us, and there are no poisonous ones in this country. To those who are scared of spiders: woman up and take it as a challenge to not be afraid of them.

I'm pretty sure all spiders in the UK are venomous, and the same goes for spiders in the rest of the world. It's how they immobilise their prey.

If you mean poisonous as in a danger to eat, not so, though best cooked I understand.

I found one IN MY HAIR the other day! I am just grateful it was only big and not the ridiculous lly enormous one I have spotted running around the living room of an evening.

The one I saw was bigger but very similar to this one. Maybe they’re cousins 🤣

I did but I thought we couldn’t upload pictures at night? Here you go zoomed in on spider that made me almost cry and shake

I've actually had this before. I had a gift bag next to my bed and i could hear something in it. Lo and behold, a rather huge spider was crawling up the inside of it.

I really like spiders but do liberate them to the great outdoors if they’re overly big or false widows. Any false widows go straight outside whatever their size.

My last lovely cat was afraid of spiders to the extent she’d jump and run away if she saw one. God love her.

I don't like spiders but I try to get them outside if I can.. the ones in stupid places like over my head or too high to reach, I spray with Raid ant and cockroach killer.. they will run initially but then will curl up and die (sorry 🕷)

Just don't kill them, it's incredibly unlucky.

Plus, they’ll eat any stray flies or mosquitoes and mostly won’t come near us big, scary humans.

I'm not a spider fan, and DS1 is also scared of them.

Luckily DS2 (6) loves all creepy crawlies and will catch big ones for us and after staring at them for a bit will take them outside while talking lovingly to the spider "come on little guy, we are just going to the garden..."

Having said that, jumping spiders are quite cute.

A big one ran over our model railway last week. Scaled up to OO, it was the size of a tractor.

You missed a trick there, should have told her you sent it to tell her to pick up her clothes.

Wow, why are its legs so upright 😳

September is spider month! I love spiders but even I get a shock from the big ones. It’s the speed that does it. If they were gentle amblers like cellar spiders or daddy longlegs it’d be okay. But no they are the fastest spider in the world!

Spiders get named in our house!

I hate them!

I would name them after ex uk prime ministers. So the next one will be called "Sir Keir", Then Rishi, then Liz then .......

Genuinely have no idea, no one had been near it at that point.
It ran like lightning and then stayed frozen there for ages until DH came down. Might’ve been afraid of the Barbie ambulance it ran into🤪

I evicted a huge spider from our bedroom this morning!

Generally, I keep a yoghurt pot and piece of card handy to catch them in - but this one was so huge I had to go and find something a lot bigger to fit over it!

I'm not the biggest fan of spiders, but I would never hurt them, and I always put them outside.

i dont know how to get across how absolutely huge it was.

?? Surely you have a size comparison in your mind – like size of hamster, tennis ball etc ?

They do that when they feel threatened, to make themselves appear larger.