The other day I read an article about a woman who had a spider in her ear. Seriously. In her ear. It totally freaked me out, partly due to our overabundance of spiders but mostly because it was in her ear.
Her ear had been itching for 5 days. She went to her doctor and he found a spider living in there. He flushed it out. It was a hairy spider.
The notion of a spider in my ear has me so on edge I make my husband look in my ear like three times a day.
Anywho… I decided to strip the bed today and wash the sheets. What should I find between the top sheet and the bottom sheet? A wolf spider. He could have gotten in my ear. He could have climbed in my ear. I’d been sleeping with him in my bed. Oh. My. God.
I let out the shriek heard round the world. Of course Tom Stronach, way over there in England, who probably airmailed the spider, couldn’t hear because he was out having a fag while trying to avoid the Olympic Closing Ceremonies.
This is him… hubby put him outside. Gaaaaaaa!
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They’re pretty big to fit your ear, unless you have really BIG ears.
Uhhhhhhh. Tim, I’m still shuddering….
Tim, Jules does admit to a big butt, so big Spock like ears might well be present too.
And anyway, poor wee spiders, they can’t just turn the heating up so they have to find somewhere warm to snuggle into, so why not a spare ear, or in between the sheets, wait till she sees the size of the spiders I have around the place, oh my!
Shuddering just thinking about it!
I saw that article and I saw the photo of the spider they took out of that poor woman’s ear. And it was deeeeeeeee-sgusting! AHHHH!
Also….OH MY GOD! Please tell me you’re joking. AHHHHHHHH!!!!! I sure hope that thing did NOT have any babies in your bed. Maybe they’re friends with the spiders in the garden.
*thud*
Get out the steamer and steam your mattress. Then do it again. Then get a new mattress and boil all the linens in the house.
Now you’ll feel better.
I am totally grossed out.
(am not laughing, nuh uh, that’s not chokes and snorts and giggles you hear, no way, no how, not a chance…)
We’ve got lots of wolf spiders here too. They eat mosquitoes and gnats so I tend to leave them alone. However, I wouldn’t invite one to share my bed.
I love spiders, Stephanie, but no, not in my bed.
Thanks a heap, Jaye!!!
You are so sympathetic.
Sorry I grossed you out, Steph! I did wash everything and checked beneath the mattress!
I know, Penny… can you believe it? I saw that spider and felt so sick to my stomach! No babies, praise the lord!
I’m still shuddering, Amber!
Now Tom, you aren’t going to sneak one in my bed, are you? I’m telling Ishbel!
Omg I got the shivers just looking at the pic..ewwww
Savannah - I know…
I’m not afraid of spiders or anything but that totally freaks me out. Eeek!
Good grief! Now I won’t be able to sleep tonight. Thank you very much for that mind picture I really did not need!
Hey Charlee - which image? The spider in my bed or the spider in her ear?
Yes, Casey. A spider in your ear is very freaky. The occasional spider has dropped off the ceiling onto my bed.
For some reason, now that the fire smoke has cleared, our hydrangea bushes out back have had huge, gorgeous white blossoms. They make wonderful flower arrangements, and a friend was coming for a visit, so I picked probably 20 blossoms from pale green getting-started blossoms to plate-size snowball-whites and arranged them in a big cut glass vase. We stayed up late talking on the deck the night she arrived and then finally called it a day. Fifteen minutes later, she howled. The bouquet was on the table next to her bed, and when she pulled back the quilt. the pillow and sheet were crawling with hundreds of tiny jumping things the size of little ticks. Turns out these little harmless but disgusting bugs were tucked inside each and every little individual bud on each blossom. We had to start over with fresh linens and vacuum and cringe. Don’t know which is worse, having one spider in a bed or a gazillion teeny tiny black things! I vote for neither!
Marylin, I know it’s not funny but it is. I second your vote for neither!