I know it has nothing to do with losing weight - although I am sure I just shed at least 2 pounds - but I was just having a last surf before going to bed when I turned around and saw it!
No exaggeration 2 inches in diameter, beady eyes on stalks crawling along the wall straight towards me! Yep a hideous alien creature nameed SPIDER.
Unfortunately the only can of chemicals to hand was the last of my dry shampoo ( a must between classes) and I used it all before I rmembered where the spider killing stuff was!
So now not only do I have massve alpitations but I'll look awful after my morning classes, and I have a first meeting to host too!
Next Sunday I am going straight to bed,no passing GO, no collecting ANYTHING! I hate 'em.
P.S. I can still feel my skin crawling and I keep checking behind me - stupid or what?
hi stef i can cope with a stroppy teenager psycho dogs demented relatives upset neighbours but dont even ask me to look at those hideous things ,and with all the wet weather i think they have moved into my house and some of them are that big i think i can hear them tap dancing on my kitchen floor poor you lots of sympathy and big hugs
you know, I used to have a bit of a fear of spiders, until I had to deal with them myself.
I don't believe in killing them, it's unlucky y'know! and I'd rather have spiders than flies (YUK) I grab a large jar or pint glass, stick it over the top of them then slide a piece of card underneath, once they're trapped they don't seem half as scary, I mean, what must WE look like to them!!! lol.
I then let them go outside, good karma, all is well with the world !!
I have had all sorts of intervention stuff from hypnotism to cognitive restructuring and I can still barely cope.
The chemical kill has only been possible for about 1 year. Before that I would just squeak (I couldn't manage a scream) and run! In front of a bus was preferable.
You see I have true arachnaphobia and am classified as a 'scanner', I pause at every threshold and scan the entire room to be sure it is safe to enter. I do this in a split second and not many poeple notice. Other people are 'blockers', they deliberately don't look around so's not to see anything lurking. The psychologist at Bristol Zoo assured me that I am doing everything possible and only time will tell!
Hopefully one day I will be able to do the kind thing. But not now! Just writing this has made my skin tighten and my heart race! Euuk! ICE CREAM CHOCOLATE BISCUITS..... yumm
Stef, I totally understand, I can cope with eight legged crawley things but DON'T ask me to deal with a stick insect, I go white, shake and then throw up.
Totally irrational, if you look at the size of them, then the size of me!!!
Spiders? "Shudder". I wish I wasn't such a fraidy cat but |I blame my poor Dad. Everyone thinks it is a female thing don't they. However, one day when I was young and mym mum was out at cookery class and my brother was out at cubs I noticed a mega huge brute on my wall. Naturally I asked my fearless dad to sort it out (being a right girly). He did not look too pleased whcih I took to meaning that I had dragged him away from his TV. In mum's bedroom was a dusting poweder box of Helena Rubinstein's heaven scent talc. He used that to collect the spider. Very clever I thought. When I told mum later she was amazed! Dad is absolutely terrifed of spiders apparently! He was once sucking a sweet that seemed a bit "hairy". Yep you guessed an incy wincy had got stuck to it. NO wonder he hates them!
Actually my brother and I used to race them in our bedrooms but I think this one was a lot bigger than anything I had seen before and now I know my bid fearloess dad is afraid well they must be monsters must't they. He has nightmares if he sees one even on TV.
Please don't kill them they do a lot of good. I am brave, I brush them into the bin and then run like a mad thing to the window and gently shush them out.
Scared!
