Why am I such a scaredy cat

[Mrs Dazzle]

Spiders - absolutely plum terrifed of them. I've never managed to get past about 10 minutes into the film Arachnophobia before I'm a gibbering wreck.

DH has been away on business for the last week and I reckon every single grotesque, nasty, hobnailbooted fiendish (and I'm being polite) sp-sp-spider has come into our house since he's been gone. When he phoned this morning he had to gall to laugh at me, hmmph indeed.

I'm embarrassed to admit it took me over 2 hours last night to get rid of the mother of all spiders in my blooming bedroom last night.

They're such small things compared to us, but I am absolutely terrified of them. (Having said that, this one was HUGE, it was dribbling and licking it's lips at me).

I was in such a state when I went up to bed gone 11pm last night and immediately zeroed into this one, that I was so tempted to wake Katie up to get her to banish it, but that wouldn't have been fair.

I did manage - with the aid of my friend Broom and bouncing up and down on the bed (psyching myself up) - to whack the thing onto the curtains and then out of the window . . . eventually I finally got into bed at 1.34AM and spent a very sleepless night being terrified he was coming back with his big brothers to get me in the night. I even broke the house rule of NO cats on the bed - all three were with me last night, and I was tempted to see if any of the neighbours dogs and cats fancied a night in

What a sad person I am

 

[Clarey]

LOL I am with you 110% on this. I hate Sept + Oct as all the Spiders chose my home as their home We had a big one the other night, My DS was chasing it around the front room and then he (the spider) went hang gliding out the window. DS said to me 15 mins later "Mum why are you still standing on the chair"

 

[Astrid]

Ah ha! It was you making all that flipping noise in the New Forest last night then!!

Should have given me a buzz flower, don't mind the little critters at all, now, mention the word snakes and that'll have me running bloomin miles!!

Astrid x

 

[KayleeUK]

it was dribbling and licking it's lips at me

I am with you on this Annie

 

[PoohBears#1fan]

I'm totally in awe of the fact that you managed to get rid of it yourself!!! Just the thought makes me shudder - I'd have knocked on my neighbours house and asked one of them to do it, and I really wouldn't care what they thought of me because of it, couldn't be worse than sharing the room with a spi.... can't even say the word!

 

[signtalker]

You are not alone!!!!

We have fields on both sides of our house, and as soon as they cut them, guess what its party time at our house!!!!, I think every living spider heads for mine, you can literally see them wave as they walk past!!

the only thing Ive found to stop me from being cornered in a room(as I cant even bare to try and walk past them(im sure theyre gonna jump on me as I go past!).

And sorry if I offend anybody here

But I use hairspray!!!!!, give em a quick squirt, just enough for them to be stunned and unable to move, and then shout for help!!!!!!! , it soon wears off when your rescuer takes them outside!.

Failing a knight in shining armour, Im afraid its shut the door and pray very loudly!!!

Jules

 

[WDWfan uk]

Annie, these creatures plot against us ........ they always seek out those of us who are scared of them and appear when those in the family who AREN'T scared of them are out or fast asleep

....... and have you noticed how they always seem to run <i>towards</i> us, hmmm ??