Creeped out

So I was eating a bowl of cereal this morning when I felt the hair on my arm stand up.

I paid no attention for a while until the sensation went to my wrist and then to my hand. Then glanced down to scratch at it.

That's when I found a spider half-the size of my palm balancing on my wrist. My mouth was full of cereal, so I just let out a closed-mouth screech as it crawled to my thigh.

Then after two seconds, I smashed the thing with my hand.

I limped to the sink (kinda smacked my hand down a bit too hard), washed off the spider guts, scrubbed my hand with soap and hand sanitizer. Then doused my hands with rubbing alcohol to sterilize. Sploshed on hand sanitizer again. Then alcohol again ... No, that's normal. Honest.

Then I went back to my cereal which was soggy. I ate the few crunchy parts left.

But several hours have passed since that.

And I still feel that creepy crawly sensation. I'm slapping at "bugs" on my arms only to find out at closer inspection it's a mole. Picking at lint on my pants, there is no lint naturally, nor am I wearing pants. But still.

Anyways, what I wanted to know is ...

Can anyone recommend a cereal that stays crunchy in milk for a long time?

Thanks in advance.

What a nightmare. I hate spiders.

That story is almost as bad as the time I ate a fig newton covered in large black ants by accident in the dark. They bit my tongue and I freaked out and spat them all out and ran to the sink for water.

We've already had this discussion...




Now get back to the part about not wearing any pants


Actually the only cereal that stays crunchy is grape nuts....cept it doesn't have grapes or nuts. By the way....what are ya wearing?

Phantom spider syndrome - akin to phantom limbs. If there were a phanton cereal syndrome you'd have the sensation the cereal was still crispy years after pouring it into the bowl.

I never kill spiders. I had a huge spider that lived in my bathroom for the longest time. He had a little web by the mirror over the sink. I took to having one-way conversations with him while I shaved.

I look at it this way, if he wasn't eating something else that was trying to live in my bathroom he would have starved to death. So as long as he was alive, something else wasn't.

Now you were eating your cereal. What was the spider that you killed eating? Whatever it is, it's still in your house!

I'd be afraid to sleep at your place. Whatever he didn't get to eat probably plays in your hair and crawls in your nostrils at night while you're sleeping.

Ah phantom spider ... that makes sense. I could try dousing myself completely with hand-sanitizer then.

And, Talen, your precious fruit loops aren't crunchy. They are STALE.

Good job Neehai....now shes gonna be freaking out wondering what the spider was lookin to eat....unless.....the spider was going to eat her

Eeeeee ...

Only dust bunnies could thrive in my room. I think it wander in since it's been raining here all night. Just in case, I'm duct-taping aroudn the windows and doors. I might not be able to leave the house, but I'm safe. And I got cereal.

Grape nuts doesn't stay crunchy. I have tried them. And soggy grape nuts is just wrong.

ARGH. I hate any bugs crawling on me. I remember I was in the shower when I found a cockroach on my thigh. I went hysterical. Crying, smashing things. Aiyeeee. Can't believe what people digest in Fear Factor. Pweh!

Lash, Lash, Lash... are you certain that the 'few crunchy parts left' weren't, in fact, spattered crunchy spider parts? Just a thought.

ANYWAY - I would try one of those Kashi granola things. I had a box of one of theirs that was so crunchy it hurt my mouth!

oh yes... I once reached for a box of coughdrops in the night... plucked one out and popped it into my mouth. It was covered with ants. pleaghhhhh!

My husband (who is going straight to hell for this) once told me that when you sleep, spiders crawl up your face and drink from your tear ducts. While I logically know this isn't true, it creeped me out enough to seriously consider sleeping in swim-goggles for quite a while.

I'm positive that I didn't eat any spider limbs.

But I was a bit disappointed in myself that I killed the spider. It wasn't menacing. I can almost sense it's bewilderment for finding itself in such close proximity to a human. I feel bad really. I had this crazed fantasy that it'd bite me, and I'd turn into spider girl.



I read a little factoid somewhere that our eyelashes do have microscopic spiders living in them. They feed on whatever accumulates in our lashes.

I don't know about that but there is a theory that in your lifetime you will eat something like 20 spiders while you sleep.....mmmmm protein

there are also worm like things that live in the bottom of our eyelids......we humans are infested I tell ya

Bah...I knew it was too good to be true.....damn them people....damn them to hell...or Jersey

I like spiders AND Jersey! BURN THIS THREAD!!!

that poor spider! he just wanted some affection.

is there a down side to that? other than lactating web boobs on each wrist i mean.......

No downside at all. I'd have super spider powers. But the web-lactating boobs don't sound very appealing. I just want to shoot them out my wrists. Easier to nab donuts that way. Hmm ... chocolate eclairs.

Have cereal that starts out soggy, like oats aka oatmeal. They are better for you and you only have to worry about them getting cold.

I was working at my computer one time and I saw a little thing moving in the corner of my eye, about level with my head. Well I didn't pay any attention to it... then a few seconds later I felt something tickle my arm, and a big spider had dangled down from the ceiling and landed there. Well I freaked out and flipped it onto the carpet, then grabbed my law textbook and smashed it down on top of it... which didn't kill it, since when I checked it tried to scuttle away. So I smashed it again then jumped up and down on top of the book just to make sure.

I generally try not to kill things... if I find a bug in my room i'll take it outside. Unless it's one of those crawly centipede things... even the tiny ones scare the hell out of me.

But what really creeped me out later was what if it had decided to move a few inches to the right before dropping down? Then it would have landed on my head... and I wouldn't have noticed...

if you don't notice then is it a bad thing? i mean you could have a huge spider on your head right now.

OMG THERE IT IS!!!!!!!

My sister is scared of spiders (she's scared of flying as well, go figure). Thing is she likes travelling, so we were in Australia this time..... and that's about as far as I need to go with that story cos I mean, Australia, it's not really the place to go if you don't like spiders is it?

One mornign I was pouring out my cereal and a huge black spider fell out into the bowl
I didn't need coffee after that fear wakes you up REAL good