I was attacked by a spider!

[hucifer]

People beware, because these attacking spiders exist. And they terrorize the hearts of women like you and me.

It started innocently enough. I was getting ready for work this morning, standing in front of the mirror and happily applying lotion. I was unaware of the dangers that lie in front of me. Call it ignorant bliss, if you will. I was also naked. This makes me more vulnerable for an attack.

Then it happened! Something caught my eye above the mirror. I looked up and saw it crawling above the mirror. I immediately jumped back (call it instict, call it being a girly-man, call it whatever you like...but this little reaction SAVED MY LIFE). And then the sucker lunged at me...Yes, it LUNGED! As if it were wearing tiny springs on the bottom of its legs, it sprang from above my head and landed on the counter, mere inches from me. Like it wanted to sink its teeth into me and eat my flesh.

I screamed. No "ew, a spider" scream. No, this was long and loud like a "I'm being ATTACKED!" scream. Probably woke up the whole neighborhood.

Good thing I married a hero. He sprinted to action and killed the spider before it could take a second leap at me and finish the job. Perhaps it's a new breed of spiders, programmed to crave human blood and attack innocent young naked women. I don't know. I'm just here to warn you.

They do exist. And they are fearless. Beware!

 

[graygables]

I have a worse one...last week this spider (wolf spider, 1.5 inches) actually crawled in my hair and when I pulled the eek-something's-in-my-hair thing, it ran ACROSS my FACE and stepped IN MY EYE!!! My DH stunned it with the remote after I'd finally knocked it off and we sucked it up in the vacuum cleaner.

I hope you have recovered from your spider attack...maybe we need a support group??

 

[Bashful2]

These are not a new strain of spiders. They've been around for as long as I can remember. Don't try to kill them with a paper towel because they will somehow manage to avoid it and then attack you. The only way to kill these monsters is to drown them in bug spray, hair spray or any other kind of toxic spray you have around!

 

[hucifer]

I have a worse one...last week this spider (wolf spider, 1.5 inches) actually crawled in my hair and when I pulled the eek-something's-in-my-hair thing, it ran ACROSS my FACE and stepped IN MY EYE!!! My DH stunned it with the remote after I'd finally knocked it off and we sucked it up in the vacuum cleaner.

I hope you have recovered from your spider attack...maybe we need a support group??

Oh you so beat me on that one. You have my sympathies!

 

[Trish5768]

 

[Kimberly]

I hate bugs too. Once when we were staying down in Florida, and a palmetto bug bit my leg while I was sleeping and woke right up screaming bloody murder. I swiped it off my leg where it landed on the wall, and then proceeded to smack it with a shoe repeatedly (probably about a dozen times). My parents thought I had gone nuts.

 

[Quackmore]

People beware, because these attacking spiders exist. And they terrorize the hearts of women like you and me.

It started innocently enough. I was getting ready for work this morning, standing in front of the mirror and happily applying lotion. I was unaware of the dangers that lie in front of me. Call it ignorant bliss, if you will. I was also naked. This makes me more vulnerable for an attack.

Then it happened! Something caught my eye above the mirror. I looked up and saw it crawling above the mirror. I immediately jumped back (call it instict, call it being a girly-man, call it whatever you like...but this little reaction SAVED MY LIFE). And then the sucker lunged at me...Yes, it LUNGED! As if it were wearing tiny springs on the bottom of its legs, it sprang from above my head and landed on the counter, mere inches from me. Like it wanted to sink its teeth into me and eat my flesh.

I screamed. No "ew, a spider" scream. No, this was long and loud like a "I'm being ATTACKED!" scream. Probably woke up the whole neighborhood.

Good thing I married a hero. He sprinted to action and killed the spider before it could take a second leap at me and finish the job. Perhaps it's a new breed of spiders, programmed to crave human blood and attack innocent young naked women. I don't know. I'm just here to warn you.

They do exist. And they are fearless. Beware!

That was funny. Thanks for laugh. I'll be on the lookout for these attack spiders.

 

[ADisneygirl]

 

[cheerbop]

 

[escape]

I had to go find my cat outside the other night. I went around the backyard where there is very little light and that's when it happened...I ran into a spider web....with the spider still in it. It was one of those red spiders...about 1 1/4 inches long. I could barely see it on my white shirt. Scared the 'you know what' out of me. I started screaming and doing the dance to get the spider off of me. I knocked it off somehow but I ran into the house and change clothes and threw my original clothes in the garage...just in case.

Just thinking about it makes me ill.

 

[princessbaileigh]

My husband is deathly afraid for spiders or any bugs that fly! He runs away screaming like.....what was that.....A GIRLY_MAN! But, to his credit, if there is a bug that will bite, sting, or generaly make you nuts, it will find him (and my daughter). He works in attics and under houses a lot in his work and that is not really a good thing for him. But, out of all those times of being where they normally live.....He gets bit in bed while he is sleeping! It has never happened to me, just him. It is really funny, about once a week, he will be getting into bed and just about comfortable, and the sheet will move slightly on his leg or arm and out of the bed he flys!!!!!! This usually happens just as I am dosing off to sleep. Of course, he has to turn on the over-head light and fling the sheets back to find what it was. But like I said, it is usually the sheet.....He has issues now!!!!!

I have seen those attacking spiders before. I usually hae to be the "Hero" and SMACK, WHACK, or SPRAY them.

 

[sweet angel]

I have a worse one...last week this spider (wolf spider, 1.5 inches) actually crawled in my hair and when I pulled the eek-something's-in-my-hair thing, it ran ACROSS my FACE and stepped IN MY EYE!!! My DH stunned it with the remote after I'd finally knocked it off and we sucked it up in the vacuum cleaner.

I hope you have recovered from your spider attack...maybe we need a support group??

Yeesh. I thought my story of the spider in my ear in the middle of the night was bad. I'm itchy now.

 

[iggbees]

haha. i was just watching arachnaphobia last night on tv and who knows why, because i HATE spiders more than anything in the whole world. luckily, where i'm living now, there are hardly any spiders inside. we just get silverfish (a ton!) and teeny weenie black ants. i can deal with both of them.

 

[tmt martins]

I have one doing about 55 (company van )down Expressway and see what I thought was a small leg over rearview mir.So I take a peice of box and jam up in there alls OK.

About 10min later this thing (body about 1in.thick good3in leg span ) pops down right in front of my face almost wrecked the van when I ducked out of it's way.I hit it back up on the windsheild and it craws back in.
Now have to drive about 30mins to find a Gaint (market) knowing this thing is up there
get some spray and spray away .

Well to end this story I must of hit one of it's little ones earlier because about 30 of them little buggers came running out and down the windsheild.Killed them all but was not happy driving that van anymore.

 

[SassyTexas]

My DH and I live in Central Ar. I grew up in TX so I have seen many spiders. Well, we when we moved into a different house we saw spiders all the time. Since my DH has a bad phobia to them living there was not good. The spiders seemed to be worse in Central AR than they where in TX!!!

 

[Linnie The Pooh]

And we stopped on this sandbar to rest when we looked down and there were thousands of these big spiders RUNNING towards us!! They must've wanted to get off the sand bar or eat us for lunch. We jumped back in the raft and paddled the heck out of there!!

 

[Kitty 34]

I grabbed my purse one day on the way to school and out crawled a wolf spider. Now I keep my purse all zipped up and hopefully in a secure spot which I really don't think there is one from spiders!!!

 

[Rhonda922]

Okay, I have to skip to the next topic. This one is giving me the chills. I hate spiders as a matter of fact while I was reading, I felt like something was crawling on me! I got bitten by one two years ago (still don't know how). I was so grossed out thinking that one was actually on my skin. E-YOOOW!!!! My left foot was so swollen that I couldn't get it in my shoe. Plus I had these red blotchy spots all over my leg. Beware of spiders -- they are out for blood! You've been warned, good luck out there in DIS land.

 

[princessbaileigh]

I live in north west Arkansas, and I am from North of Dallas.....SO I know all about spiders!!!!!!

SPeaking of things crawling in your ear......Right before Christmas I had the boxes still in the hallway from all the decorations. That night my husband and I went to sleep........4:30 a.m., my husband wakes up SCREAMING!!!! I woke up not knowing what was going on. He told me that there was a moth in his ear and he could hear it fluttering. I looked in his ear and could not see anything....he wouldn't let me get the tweezers or pour poroxide in it.....then he started running up and down our hallway...BANGING his head and SCREAMING at the top of his lungs. He managed to put his feet in his shoes and put a robe around him yelling at me to take him to the hospital. I didn't even get my undergarments on, and thew on a a pair of pants.....he was already in the car. Anyway, we get to the hospital and the doctor was about 90 years old and had very shakey hands and pulled the little sucker out!!!! Come to find out.....It wasn't a moth it was a ROACH, from those boxes! That thing was about as big around as your little finger and about 1 in long! My husband says that if you ever want to torchure someone.....put a roach in their ear! They can not go backwards, only forwards and then they try to eat their way through! I was laughing at him the whole time.....but, now I hope it never happens to me!!!!

 

[NCDisneyMom]

Why? Why, why, why, why, WHY???? WHY did I read this thread?????? Now I have the heebie-jeebies.