FREAKED Out!

[LauraA]

I have a little story to share with you.

The past couple nights I've been dealing with mosquito bites that just won't quit itching. I thought my legs were going to be torn to shreds the past couple mornings because I scratched them all night long. It's been making me crazy! Normally a mosquito bite is a bit irritating, no big deal. But I have 17 bites on one leg, 9 on the other and 2 on my left arm. I even complained to my husband about them, which I normally wouldn't do. Anti-itch cream hasn't helped a bit. So....

This morning I made my bed as usual. A while later I went in there and noticed that the sheet was hanging down below the comforter, so I lifted it up to tuck the sheet in better. I was talking to my husband on the phone at the time, and I started screaming. There was a huge, dark, thick legged, nasty, ugly, creepy, disgusting, wolf spider there on the sheet. Dan about freaked out not knowing why I was screaming. Ben, Noah and the daycare kids came running in and all I could do was point at the evil thing on my bed!

I was finally able to blubber out to Dan that there was a horrid spider in our bed and that thing had been crawling on me at night, biting me, making me itch. The kids thought it was a great, amusing display of emotion and started laughing, screaming and running up and down the hallway yelling, "Spider! Spider!" I got off the phone with Dan, grabbed a bottle of RAID and sprayed half a can on the filthy beast. Then we grabbed a book and took care of it for good. One of my brave daycare girls volunteered to pick the remains with a tissue and flush it.

I continued to squeal, wiggle and freak for another 15 minutes or so. I've continued to let out a squeal here and there as the memory enters my mind today. And I keep feeling spiders on me. So much for telling the kids about how good spiders are for eating mosquitoes for us!!! My actions, I'm sure, removed every positive word I'd ever uttered about them. Cara called at the tail end of it and was able to witness (by audio) the remaining minutes of my reaction to our uninvited bed guest. EEEKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!! It was HORRID!


I can hardly stand to look at these, but I thought I'd share:
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Info on Wolf Spiders:

Hogna is the genus with the largest of the wolf spiders. Among the Hogna species in the U.S., the nearly solid dark brown H. carolinensis is the largest, with a body that can be more than one inch long. It is sometimes confused with H. helluo (pictured below), which is somewhat smaller and entirely different in coloration.

Some members of the Lycosidae, such as H. carolinensis (called the Carolina wolf spider despite the fact that its range covers much of the U.S.) make deep tubular burrows in and around which they lurk much of the time. Others, such as H. helluo, seek shelter under convenient rocks and other such shelters as nature may provide. They may wander from place to place, and are therefore more likely to be the ones attracted into human habitation when the weather starts to turn colder in autumn

Wolf spiders are not aggressive but will inject venom freely if continually provoked. Symptoms of their venomous bite include swelling, mild pain and itching. Though usually considered harmless to humans, the bite of some species may be painful.

Final Note: Dan didn't get one bite. I'm assuming it's because I use a honey lemon body lotion after showering, and he, of course doesn't.

.... I don't know how I'm going to sleep tonight.

[Kelly]

EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!! So sorry! That's disgusting!!!!! Glad the kids had fun with it, but sorry it was at your expense hehehe

I may have to check my bed for spiders....I've got the same thing. I wake up with big red spots on my legs. Couldn't tell ya if they itch or not since I can't feel my legs. But I also have been waking up lately with ant bites all over my arms. Time to call the exterminator!

[krazyyouth]

wow yeah i hate spiters i been biten by like 2 0 of them use tar nasty stuff and then im all good just have to drian the puss out

but that is nasty i change my sheets once a week

[LauraA]

Well, it's been cold here for three nights, so the spider must have come in looking for a snuggly place to hang out. I can't believe he found his way to our bed!!! The stinker! Dan has been chuckling at me since he got home. Guys. LOL

[souledoutforchrist]

Ewww, oh man that's just terrible. I really try not to think about what may be lurking in my room/bed. I have to say this post isn't helping that:D

[xoShaniexo]

Ewww! That's so creepy! ....and I run out of the room screaming over the tiny ones, I can't imagine how I'd react to one of those! lol.

[LauraA]

Going to bed...praying I can sleep in there. Dan said I should crawl into a sleeping bad. Just the word "crawl" did me in. I may end up on the couch. :(

[Outcast]

Laura I am glad you are OK...i know what it feels like to be freaked out by a spider. I have my own story too about a showdown with a wolf spider*insert theme from "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" here* In 2002, when I was living in a two story appartment/town house with 7 other Mexican roomates and sittign at hoem one Friday night relaxing in the den...the main room...where also my bed, TV and bookshelf was...i was watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer on DVD (I wasnt church going and was out fo relationship with God then). Suddenly this big black wolf spider comes out to the middle of the floor. I try to throw my shoe at it but it lands next to the spider. I actuaally missed it by an inch or less...no jokes. It doesnt flich or move. Just twitches one of its legs a lot like someone would tap their index finger out of boredom. It was like it was saying "Is that the best you got?" I grabbed a huge book and was about to smash it, but i saw soon how fast those jokers can move. Lightening fast reflexes. I gave up after two tries as it suddenly jumped at me...probably goign into that fight stage as it felt cornered. Evil thing. I sat there and just stared at it in fear. I moved over quickly and got on my bed...watchign it at all times...watching to see where it would go. I didnt want it to under my beds as i had boxes under it. It could find a way on my bed while i was sleeping if it got under there. So I stared it down for over 30 minutes. I was alone and hoping someone woudl come home soon. Two of my roomates Ivan and Rafael came in from work from Cracker Barrell. I shouted in Spanish and pointed: Aran(~)a! Matala! (Spider! Kill it!) And when Ivan saw it he shouted various obscene explicatives in surprise and fear. He ran into the kitchen and came back in the room with a huge butcher knife and he and Rafael chased it all over the den trying to stab it and stomp on it. Finally, I told rafael to grab the can of 409 bathroom cleaner in the kitchen cabinet and use that to kill it. They cornered it and foamed that spider liek the foam policemen use to subdue people. The monster wouldnt give up. came out of the foam and was still struggling to escape...but by then the chemicals had probably gotten into his spiracles (spider breathign holes located at the abdomen) and he was suffocating and moving slow...you know...like that last attempt the killer or monster makes in a horror movie while dying. Rafaels foot came down on him with a loud thud...and that little hellspawn met his well deserved demise.

I was shaken the rest of the night and continued watching TV. I had bought some Pepsi earlier in the day and was sharing it with Ivan. Suddenly, Ivan started making evil deep voices and going "Muahaha! Jeff, dess is spider ghost...me want Pepsi too...if no give...i come night for you!" with his very basic english and all of his silliness I foudn mysel flaughing until I had tears. Good memory from a bad experience!Stil though, i mean, spiders are nothign to play aroudn with...especially the venomous ones...and it being a rough neighborhood and appartment complex, I mean he could have had a gun or somethign liek that. And if any of his homies had seen him get killed, the gang could have come to avenge his death. Spiders can be evil vindicative creatures:)

[LauraA]

Hahahaha! I so enjoyed your story, although I'm sorry you had to go through that. It's bad enough when we can run from it, but it must have been much worse for you.

Last night I was so scared that the dead spider had friends who stayed behind to, like Jeff said, avenge his death. LOL. Dan assured me that they live alone and we were fine and all by ourselves. Then the big booger started singing spider songs to me. HA! I soon fell into a fitful sleep and woke up this morning, went straight for the Raid and sprayed under our bed...just in case!

[Kelly]

I think you jinxed me with your story Laura! Hehehe

Last night I got in bed and couldn't sleep because I had so much on my mind. Finally around 3 I started to dose off when I heard something hit the wall behind me. I shot up and turned around to find a roach crawling right above where my head was!!!!! Eeeeek!!!!! I HAAAAAAAATE roaches! So I jumped outta bed and grabbed my spray and a shoe. It crawled up the wall and was about to go behind a picture I have hanging so I shot it and it flew off the wall and disappeared! That made me even more nervous, not knowing where it was or if it was still alive, so I sat there waiting for it to pop out somewhere....30 minutes later I still hadn't seen it, so I switched my pillows to the opposite side of the bed and went back to sleep. Woke up this morning and my room STILL smells like Raid! :(

[LauraA]

Oh no!!! Bugs are invading us!!!! EWWWW! ICK!

I've never seen a roach. Are they big? I think I read somewhere that Jeremy is scared to death of them. LOL.

My mother in law told me that she walked into her bathroom in the middle of the night, turned the light on and heard a plop on the floor. She looked down and saw an earwig that had been on the ceiling, and must have been startled when the light went on, and fell down right in front of her face. YUCKIE POO!

So what is the vote guys? Which bug is scarier, nastier, icky-er? :eek: A spider, a roach or an earwig?

[souledoutforchrist]

I picked spider. I really don't mind them, but a hairy one in my bed would be worse then the other two

[xoShaniexo]

I can't even pick just one, I hate ALL bugs! ick!

Oh, and yesterday, not 5 minutes after I read this post, I turn around and see what on my wall? A spider! Not a tiny one either! It wasn't huge or anything, but it was big enough! I jumped off my bed and ran to the other side of the room while my sister killed it. haha.

[LauraA]

I picked spider. I really don't mind them, but a hairy one in my bed would be worse then the other two

Believe me, I am scarred for life! I just have to wiggle every time I think of it. My knees almost give out. SQUEAL!:o

[Kelly]

Roach for sure! I can handle spiders and other insects but show me a roach, and I take off running! I'll have to ask J about that next time I see him hehe. Good to know I'm not alone!

I've seen some GIGANTIC roaches, but the one that I had last night wasn't that big. What gets me is that some run at lightning speed! I hate those! Then of course flying roaches! Yuck!!!

[krazyyouth]

what is an earwig

[CaraBear]

Well if it makes ya feel any better I had to kill another mouse when I got home!!!!

[LauraA]

I should have put mouse on the poll! lol.

Here is a link to learn about earwigs....not that you should want to know, really. They are disgusting little things and gross me out!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earwig

[djbos]

Earwigs are kind of gross...I don't see many out here in Michigan, but we had all kinds of them crawling all over when we lived in Colorado.

[Outcast]

There is actually one kind of spider that I do like to admire or look at from a distance...the garden spiders...beautiful webs and beautiful colors...from a distance of course. I learned to like this kind when I moved in and was renting a room in my friends' house in 2003. My first instinct when I saw her was to kill her...but then it was explained to me how beneficial they were to gardens. I became rather fond of "Speedy" and watching her arrange her web and later guard her egg-sac...every now and then i would catch something for her and toss it in her web...from a distance of course:)

The only other time I showed mercy on a spider was in 2005 in the summer...after my fall and accident...and I couldnt walk and would scoot around on my rear to get around the tiny studio room and also across the patio of the duplex appartment house to get to my car which i was allowed to keep parked right out front. I did have a wheelchair but as i was alone in the country it was easier to leave it in the trunk as I coulnt not get it in and out without great efforts. Also my legs were still stiff and in pain so i couldnt bend them or even kneel by the trunk...another story. Anyway, as I was scooting out across the little front patio slowly inch by inch i looked down at the pavement and found huge brown spider about two feet away...evidently having come out of the grass and was crawling towards me slowly...almost next to me...Anyway, I kind of freaked a little but as I was holding a spanish dictionary in my lap I lifted it and was about to lower the boom on him...so to speak...and hten I stiopped as I noticed something. The spider was also moving and struggling along slowly...and I saw he had only 6 legs. Yeah, I am not making this up...6 legs! Of all the bugs and critters that could come after me while I was in the shape I was at the time, it HAD to be a disabled spider...or maybe I should say "differently abled" out of respect...I mean, here he had only six legs...not so fast...and struggling to get around like me...and not giving up but survivng. I thought to myself: "wow, little spider...you are tough like me...don't know how you lost those two legs but hey, you are a definitely tough and determined!" I decided he really deserved to live. So I took my hand and pounded the pavement to scare him and watched as he struggled and stumbled to get away and disappeared in the grass by the shrub garden next to the patio. And then i just laughed and laughed over how funny it was! I hadnt laughed that hard in a while with all I had gone through with the fall and not walking and the lonliness and isolation I felt being alone out in the country...God had used a spider to make me laugh and smile over my situation:)

[LauraA]

I will consider your words after a proper time of healing. Right now I am in the thick of spider heebie jeebies. ;)

[Outcast]

LOL...I understand...no prob:) Thanks for taking the time to read my stories...I will admit I am hestiant to post them as they are so wierd and I am afraid people won't beleive them...

To help releive your heebie jeebies a little, there is a another story involving cute funny frogs:) Happened on a quite starry night after a rainstorm. I had to scoot across wet grass and such on my rear to get from the car to the patio to the door...and I just stopped on the patio and lay there to rest. Enjoying the beauty...still feeling some lonliness. Then i saw somethign jump, a cute baby frog. I laughed and talked to him a little...and carefully stroked him a little with my finger. And then another one came and then another. Soon I had about 15 little frogs around me. Anyway, I had company for a few minutes. Just watchign them hop around and explore a little...such peaceful little creatures even when you hear them croaking...between them and the katydids and the crickets that started singing again, it was indescribably beautiful...at least to me anyway. Anyway, i praised God for the frogs and that night:)

Hmmm...i guess frogs really dont relate to the topic at hand do they...or maybe they do kind of...i mean, they probably eat baby spiders so they won't grow up to be big spiders...which is a good thing right?:)

[LauraA]

I love it! Very cute story. I could just imagine you laying there taking to the frogs, and praising God for them. That's awesome! And it did relieve my heebie jeebies. :) Thank you!

(Your stories are always interesting to read and I've never doubted a word you've said. I'm sure I speak for others, too. Keep them coming!)

God Bless Ya~

[Outcast]

Well, it was my turn to have a spider attack. My spidey sense was going off and woke me up so I turned on the lamp to see a medium spider in the corner between the wall and the ceiling...right over my bedboard. Nothign to really be scared of but I am sure he could bite me if he came down on me in my sleep...not to mention the gross statistic I heard once of how the average person swallows aroudn 3 spiders a year while they are sleeping:eek: But my friend was also kind of mischievous and liked to tease me to spook me sometimes...so maybe this is just an urban lengend...i hope.

Anyway, I don't have a broom to beat him down with or any bug spray so I grabbed the first thing I saw...a bottle of Windex. Adjusted the sprayer to shoot a beam at him and when he came down low enough I had it set to spray and hit him with a few blasts of "blue"...left him totally MIST-ified:):)

*hangs 8 little spider sneakers up as a warning to his homies*:cool:

[LauraA]

No fun! Glad you got the little creep. I've not forgiven the spider world yet for my "incident". And the swallowing 3 spiders a year thing!? That is so disgusting!!! I sure hope you're friend was messing with you. Oh my! :eek:

Eeewwwww......