Jean in Newcastle Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 OK - not the worst nightmare. Let's not go there, ok? This morning I dragged myself into the bathroom and stepped into the shower. As the water woke me up, I thought, I wonder what I'm stepping on? I had stepped on a spider! Not a gargantuan one but not microscopic either. This is one time when I was glad of my plus size squishing power. It has been hours and I'm still squicked out by it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flowing Brook Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 I've got the shivers just thinking about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jennifer3141 Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 That is horrendous and I'm not an arachnaphobe. I still have nightmares about whip spiders though. Blow ALL of those off our planet, please. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinder Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 Ew ew ew ew ewwwwwww! :scared: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unicorn. Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 Ew ew ew ew ewwwwwww! :scared: :iagree: I'm still freaked out by the time I went to do a load of laundry, turned the water on, and this big tarantula started climbing up the inside of the washer!! :w00t: It took me weeks before I would do a load. That was months ago! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
texasmama Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 Ewwwwww....okay, here's a bad story... My poor youngest son started screaming and hopping around one day. I jumped up and looked over, and he had stepped on a scorpion, which was stuck in the bottom of his foot and dangling from it. (thud) It was horrifying to see, and it wasn't even stuck to my foot, hanging there by its stinger. He managed to shake it off and it ran under the couch. So dh and I had to pick up the couch to move it off the darn thing so we could smash it. Ewwwww.... (So it really could have been worse, Jean. :D ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clarkacademy Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 I have a story to beat that! I sleep in my workout bras. I am just that weird. I hate being without a bra and I am not what you would call blessed in that area lol! Anyway, I woke up one morning with a HORRIBLE burning on the left side. Went into the bathroom took of my top and bra when I felt something on my neck...it was a spider! It had bitten my left breast then got caught in my hair when I tried to take off my bra! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clarkacademy Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 I have a story to beat that! I sleep in my workout bras. I am just that weird. I hate being without a bra and I am not what you would call blessed in that area lol! Anyway, I woke up one morning with a HORRIBLE burning on the left side. Went into the bathroom took of my top and bra when I felt something on my neck...it was a spider! It had bitten my left breast then got caught in my hair when I tried to take off my bra! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiniBlondes Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 I'm not sure if it's because of the story or because my hair is wet and I'm chilled, but I actually shuddered for a second. Yuck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiniBlondes Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 Have you ever stepped on a spider and like 4647651434841141 microscopic baby spiders exploded everywhere? Yeah that happened to me once. Luckily it was outdoors. :leaving: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elegantlion Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 Reason #57 I always check out the shower with my glasses on before stepping into the tub. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elegantlion Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 Have you ever stepped on a spider and like 4647651434841141 microscopic baby spiders exploded everywhere? Yeah that happened to me once. Luckily it was outdoors. :leaving: I've had it happen twice, once was in my basement, another time (different house) It was in the garage. I hate spider, I know they serve a purpose but their only purpose in my house is to die. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dory Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 I was about to jump in the shower but I think I'll have to wait for awhile to calm down just over the thought of stepping on a spider with a bare foot. That's nasty! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quiver0f10 Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 Have you ever stepped on a spider and like 4647651434841141 microscopic baby spiders exploded everywhere? Yeah that happened to me once. Luckily it was outdoors. :leaving: My oldest daughter was pettsitting this summer and the people have a pool. There was one of those float things you can lay on, leaning by the pool wall. She grabbed it and was floating in the pool. She glanced down and saw something brown on her stomach so she flicked it off and tiny spiders started crawling all over her. She screamed, dove into the water and then into the house for a hot shower. I would have died. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbgrace Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 Oh that's awful and icky. Reading it gives me shivers. I found a nest of brown recluses in our old house. The extension agent and then pest people and an expert on recluses verified. The pest guy kept his sample as he thought it was cool (ick). I found them while I was pregnant with my boys and I kept having nightmares of recluses biting my newborn babies. They never bit anyone--human or pet. My worst experience was sitting on the couch cuddled up in a blanket and one crawled right next to my face. Second to that was finding one in the toy box after we had been on vacation. You can't spray for spiders but we set glue traps everywhere. I even had all the beds and dresser legs on glue traps for a while. Over the the years we got them all with those traps. At first we caught a ton. I didn't see or trap even one for the next 6 years nor did I find any packing. But it freaked me out for a few years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
readinmom Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 Yuck! Thinking of the movie Arachnophobia. Jean, please don't put spider killling on today's to do list. I don't think I could handle it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostSurprise Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 My worst experience was having a spider drop down from the car ceiling and land...on my eye...while I was driving. Yeah, my eye ball. I was extremely proud of myself for pulling over to the side of the road before completely flipping out, throwing my glasses, and whipping myself all over my face. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remudamom Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 I got a good one. The other night dd2 was in her pjs, felt something crawling up her leg and was stung twice by a SCORPION. She didn't yell or scream, just smushed it and then put ice on the stings. Nerves of steel, that one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skeeterbug Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 Not a scary spider story, but something cute my 3yo said yesterday... DD: Mama, come quick! There is a spider in the bathtub! Me: Okay. Is it a Daddy Long Legs? DD: No. It's a Mama Long Legs! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted January 20, 2013 Author Share Posted January 20, 2013 Not a scary spider story, but something cute my 3yo said yesterday... DD: Mama, come quick! There is a spider in the bathtub! Me: Okay. Is it a Daddy Long Legs? DD: No. It's a Mama Long Legs! :) I like your story much better than all the scary spider stories! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest inoubliable Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 Ick! I was reading this thread to my DH (to show that we talk about things other than curricula and brands of colored pencils, you know) and he said, "Ooh! Tell them about the time the yellow sack spiders invaded!!" So now I shall regale you with our tale of heroism. It's late at night. After midnight. DH and I are cuddled up in bed, watching a movie. All the lights are off in the house and the movie ends. I'm feeling a tad thirsty. DH says, "Get it yourself". Karma takes about three minutes to kick in. I get up, get a drink, come back. The DVD player has turned off but the TV is still on. So there's a gentle, soft blue glow in the bedroom. I slide into the bed. Reach over for the remote. And notice something tiny moving on DH's shoulder. I slide closer. Get my face down close (my glasses were off at this point). It's a baby spider. I swat DH's shoulder. He rolls over. And. Then. We. See. All over the bedroom. Coming down from the ceiling. Zillions and zillions of baby spiders. Descending while bathed in the soft blue glow of the TV. It was like a really bad low budget horror film. Okay. There was no heroism. Just screaming, camping out in DS' room, and lights on all night. And then a phone call to pest control in the morning. Yellow sack spiders. *shudder* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isabella Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 I did this about 8 weeks ago! I got in the shower, then felt something under my toe. I looked down, and just saw 2 black pincer things - 1 either side of my toe! I freaked, thinking it was a spider, and frantically standing on one foot, tried to fling the thing off my other foot. In slow motion, I see my foot I was standing on twist grotesquely on the slippery floor, and excruciating pain! It completely made me forget the 'spider', (which was actually an earwig). My poor girls came running when they heard me screaming the house down, and helped me out, and took me to hospital. I severely strained my ankle, and it's only just now getting back to normal! So I can sympathise, and I'm very glad you didn't injure yourself! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joker Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 My mom woke up one night screaming ( I was like 6 years old) and we all ran in their room. My dad finally figured out she was pointing to her ear and there was a scorpion hanging off of it. :svengo: He killed it but I was seriously afraid to sleep for months. I still to this day cannot handle seeing a scorpion. If I saw even one in my house, I would move. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pod's mum Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 We have pantry moths. We get rid of them. They come back. So I don't mind the few Daddy Long Legs there as non-poison control. But then there were more and more. Until I found DD was bringing them carefully in each time she found one outside as a gift for me. Um, we've got enough now thanks. She's my ant whisperer, always picks up ants,lets them crawl over her, checks them out and lets them go. Green ants, bull ants, inch ants, doesn't care. We don't mind some spiders, including big brown hairy huntsmen. But last time we were up at the farm, we got to the caravan late and dark, dd went straight to bed to sleep, I unpacked the car and then when I went to bed there was a large (not huge) huntsman on my side of the bed, so I had to wake her and carefully wrap it. Then I didn't fancy flicking a bedspread with live spider out in the wind, on the hill, in the dark, in my undies and not knowing where it would flick. So I dumped the bedcover on the car bonnet and dealt with it in the morning. Spider safely gone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myfunnybunch Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 Ew, ew, ew! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pod's mum Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 Ew, ew, ew! I hope that isn't referring to me outside in just my undies! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awisha. Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 :svengo: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandamom Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 Last year I was putting my ds6 to bed and we were getting ready to read a book. He laid his head down on his pillow and as he did I saw a red thing and not a second later he started crying. I yelled out to my dh that ds was bitten by a spider with red on it. He comes running back and we realize that it was a wheel bug -- also known as a nymph assassin bug. That thing apparently has a very painful sting but he was quick to heal. I will say that since then we haven't put any laundry outside to dry without making sure that there is nothing that comes into the house that isn't supposed to come inside. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PachiSusan Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 Not a scary spider story, but something cute my 3yo said yesterday... DD: Mama, come quick! There is a spider in the bathtub! Me: Okay. Is it a Daddy Long Legs? DD: No. It's a Mama Long Legs! :) Lol Melissa calls those 'mommy medium legs' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skeeterbug Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 We don't mind some spiders, including big brown hairy huntsmen. But last time we were up at the farm, we got to the caravan late and dark, dd went straight to bed to sleep, I unpacked the car and then when I went to bed there was a large (not huge) huntsman on my side of the bed, so I had to wake her and carefully wrap it. Then I didn't fancy flicking a bedspread with live spider out in the wind, on the hill, in the dark, in my undies and not knowing where it would flick. So I dumped the bedcover on the car bonnet and dealt with it in the morning. Spider safely gone. There aren't huntsman spiders in America so no one here will be properly horrified by this, but I am cringing. The first time I saw a big huntsman was soon after we'd moved here, it was on the wall, I was pregnant, hormonal, homesick, etc. and I screamed and screamed and dissolved into tears. I was a mess. The first time I was home by myself and had one in the house I had to call my FIL to come get it. Everytime I tell someone my stories they just laugh because those spiders are just part of life here. One person said to me 'Don't you have spiders in America?' Um, not that big, not where I've lived. I'd never seen one that big in my life except at the zoo! I'm desensitized now. But finding one in my bed would put me over the edge! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Donna Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 I refuse to have a real Christmas tree anymore because the last year we had one (oh, about 16 years ago), the warm inside of the house helped a spider nest inside the tree hatch and we had tiny baby spiders all over the living room. I spent days vacuuming them from walls, floors, and ceilings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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