I'm traumatised!

joanlawson
joanlawson Member Posts: 8,681
edited 8. Oct 2011, 11:57 in Community Chit-chat archive
Imagine this :!: :!:

There I was last night, stretched out on the settee watching TV, with my cat, Tommy, fast asleep on my knee. We were both feeling very relaxed when I happened to look down, and there was the biggest spider I've ever seen running right across my chest :!: :shock: :shock: It was one of those huge spiders with eyes on the end of stalks, and there it was on my chest :shock: Ugh :!: :!:
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With my arthritic knees, it often takes me a while to get up off the settee, but I've never moved so fast in my life :!: I shot up, and poor Tommy landed on the floor with a bump, looking totally bewildered. But before I could catch it, the spider disappeared under the settee, so today I daren't sit there in case it returns. I'm traumatised :shock:

Joan
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Comments

  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    O.M.G. :shock: Oh Joan, how completely, throughly and utterly horrid. You poor thing, I am so sorry. I too hate those things with a vengeance. DD
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • joanlawson
    joanlawson Member Posts: 8,681
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    There were two more in the kitchen this morning, but I managed to catch them and put them outside. Apparently, it's been a good year for spiders with the cool summer, but now they're coming inside for shelter before the winter. I never kill them, but try to catch them with a glass and then put them outside. It was just the shock of it running across me :!: I don't think Tommy was too impressed either :!: :lol:
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  • Airwave!
    Airwave! Member Posts: 2,477
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    Just popped in for a couple of minutes and laughed at your predicament, poor spider!

    I have spent the last few decades catching spiders for my OH and daughter, a swift snatch up and throw them outside seems to mollify the ladies. The house spider is a hunter, just not very good at staying away from the ladies!
  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    You try to catch them? :shock: I don't. We had a few coming in then with the warm weather they toddled out again so I guess they will soon re-appear. We have another flock of ladybirds in the bedroom. They are clustered here and there like little bunches of grapes. DD
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • angie1973
    angie1973 Member Posts: 248
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    It's that time of year. Hubby and I were sitting on the sofa when something caught our eye a couple of nights ago too. Cue us looking slowly round and see this spider casually walking along the wall.

    They are moving in, we have seen loads of them. I don't mind them as long as they stay in the corners. Just don't expect to share my personal space and you will live mr spider!!

    Time to get the conkers out in a bowl, they do a fairly reasonable job of keeping them at arms length.
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  • tjt6768
    tjt6768 Member Posts: 12,170
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    I like em, Janet hates em. We've been getting some decent sized ones indoors again these past couple of days. I'm fact I think there is one under a glass in the kitchen waiting for yours truly to be vertical long enough to release him outside. Janet was brave enough to place the glass over him.. That's quite an achievement as she's terrified of them. Ra can't be bothered with them, Cleo used to eat them, apart from the legs, not enough meat I assume, lol..


    You should have rung Rehab Joan. He would have been knocking at your door before you finished saying the word chest :eek: :lol:

    Someone else mentioned conkers to Janet.. I can't see it myself but worth a try I suppose.
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  • joanlawson
    joanlawson Member Posts: 8,681
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    I was just being polite using the word chest :lol::lol: Thank God it didn't disappear down my top or I really would have been traumatised :!: :lol:
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  • tjt6768
    tjt6768 Member Posts: 12,170
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    I think the spider would have needed therapy :eek: :wink::lol:
    Maybe he would find a shrink on the web :???: :lol:
    e050.gifMe-Tony
    n035.gifRa-1996 -2013 RIP...
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    Cleo - 1996 to 2011. RIP
  • joanlawson
    joanlawson Member Posts: 8,681
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    delboy wrote:
    It will be the large house spider that matures at this time of year and becomes more active. Leave them alone as they get rid of flies, moths (They eat your clothes and carpets) and each other.

    Yours

    A R Achnid

    Thanks for the information, but I'm not leaving them alone on my chest :shock: :lol:
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  • julie47
    julie47 Member Posts: 6,041
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    oh joan, I think I would have moved fast too (and that for me would be a first :lol: )

    What you need are conkers....I heard it on the radio that you leave then in the corner of rooms to stop them coming in. (now not sure if this works)

    perhaps you may need to make a necklace with them for the future :lol:

    I hope it doesn't return, they are just sooooo fast and scary. You poor thing, oh and your poor cat, hope he is ok.

    Juliepf x
  • tkachev
    tkachev Member Posts: 8,332
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    Joan I feel ill.....on your chest! have you washed a dozen times since this ordeal?

    Elizabeth
    Never be bullied into silence.
    Never allow yourself to be made a victim.
    Accept no ones definition of your life

    Define yourself........

    Harvey Fierstein
  • tjt6768
    tjt6768 Member Posts: 12,170
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    :shock: be careful Elizabeth, we are trying to keep Rehab calm :eek: :lol:

    tkachev wrote:
    Joan I feel ill.....on your chest! have you washed a dozen times since this ordeal?

    Elizabeth
    e050.gifMe-Tony
    n035.gifRa-1996 -2013 RIP...
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    Cleo - 1996 to 2011. RIP
  • tkachev
    tkachev Member Posts: 8,332
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    She'll need a good scrub to get the touch of a spider off.

    Elizabeth
    Never be bullied into silence.
    Never allow yourself to be made a victim.
    Accept no ones definition of your life

    Define yourself........

    Harvey Fierstein
  • valval
    valval Member Posts: 14,911
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    sorry but if they walk near me the die i can not stand spiders at all i would have screamed the place down val
    val
  • joanlawson
    joanlawson Member Posts: 8,681
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    I still daren't sit on the settee in case it's lurking somewhere. It ran underneath and hasn't been seen since so I'm convinced it's going to re-emerge. I'm still shuddering every time I think of it running across my chest :shock: :shock:

    It was this big and twice as ugly :shock: :shock: th_uospideranim.gif
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  • tjt6768
    tjt6768 Member Posts: 12,170
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    poor Boris :roll:
    Bet his Mother still loves him :lol:
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    n035.gifRa-1996 -2013 RIP...
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    Cleo - 1996 to 2011. RIP
  • joanlawson
    joanlawson Member Posts: 8,681
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    rehab44 wrote:
    Many creatures will crawl over you as you sleep. Statistically, by the time you reach 30 years of age, you will have swallowed over 100,000 insects, almost 1,000 spiders and 1 cow, albeit it a small cow

    AHHHHHHHH :!: :!: :!: :shock: :shock: :shock: Are you trying to give me nightmares :?:

    ( Moo Moo ! )
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  • fayrose
    fayrose Member Posts: 241
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    :eek: :eek: :eek: Now I feel REALLY terrified. Lemme outa here ........ :cry:
  • valval
    valval Member Posts: 14,911
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    it when there spider legs on your chin in a morning you have trouble lol
    val
  • roses1
    roses1 Member Posts: 1,850
    edited 30. Nov -0001, 00:00
    or between ya teeth :lol::lol:



    poor spider Joan ! you must have frightened him jumping up like that! i bet he has run off somewhere quiet , i reckon you will be safe on your sofa !