What do you do in a "Miss Muffett" Moment ?

I don't have many of those anymore because when I first signed up here, I found out from another mylotter than citrus repels spiders, so guess what is in my cleaning solution??? Yes, citrus essential oil.. That said,I can tell you about my worse "Miss Muffett" experience when I was a teenager. I was lying in my bed reading and when suddenly I looked just in time for a spider to come down from the ceiling and onto my stomach..You can say I Jumped up, danced, and screamed all at once..

I guess I would jump up and get shocked. However, if it is in the bathroom, I would just hit it with my towel.

I get up and smack them....I don't like spiders...if my daughter in law were here and she saw a spider....look out! She would be running through a room screaming like she is getting hurt! LOL....she hates them....now if it were a bee or wasp....then I would also be on the run!

Spiders don't scare me, though they do make me feel a bit uncomfortable. When I can see them, I can live with them, but if I can't then I get a bit twitchy. So it's best to grab a cup and a stiff piece of card to take them outside with whilst they're in sight. If I were in the shower the spider could wait until I emerged. But if I was in bed I'm afraid I'd have to get up and deal with it if it were above the bed or anywhere close by. There's no way I could sleep if I 'lost' a spider somewhere in the sheets.

What I would do should I see a spider under the circumstances you described would depend on whether I recognized the type of spider. Should I think that it might be a black widow or brown recluse, I'd run for the bug spray. Of course by the time I got back from the kitchen where the bug spray is kept, the spider would be long gone. Like Miss MJuffett, though, I'd be frightened away. No way would I sleep in that bed that night!

I have mixed emotions when it comes to spiders. I don't particularly like them but a few years ago my sister told me spiders bring good luck. LOL that stayed with me and now I hate to smash them I like having good luck

Hahaha, I just had a 'little Miss Muffet' moment the other night. I'm in my jammies and had my tv on. I was going to crawl in bed and watch some tv till I got tired. Before I even got to pull the covers back, this humongous spider went racing across and down into the area between the covers and the footboard. My cat was sleeping on the bed, saw it, jumped straight up into the air, and got off the bed so fast. I'm telling you, I ripped that bed apart while holding a shoe in my hand lol. Spiders don't usually freak me out, but when it's where I'm going to sleep, that's a whole 'nother matter!! It's funny, because everybody in the house usually hollers for me to kill a spider, yet this one had me get a little bit nuts. I usually deal with them OK, but not always!

I've always hated spiders! I usually yell for hubby to come and get it. There was one night after he had gone to bed that I saw a really, really large brown spider walking across the floor. I yelled until I woke him up and made him get up to come and get the spider before it got away. He was complaining and saying "It's only a spider!" until he saw it and then he said "That IS a big spider!" If I'm alone or he's not available, I've drowned them in bug spray or taken a fly swatter to them, but I hate to do that...I don't like picking up the remains! LOL

What I do with is brush it off. I do not want to step on them. Of course, when I was in VAncouver, B.C., I would just open the door and let him out.

I'm no Miss Muffett! first no way would I eat Cottage cheese straight, I think I read it is in the lasagna I like! And I am not scared of spiders in fact they are the one insect welcome in my home. I heard in a movie that it is bad luck to kill a spider , they are weavers. I think it is an Irish custom. (Any Irish MyLotters Please help me!)Anyway I love spiders, big or small!

The first thing I do is try to kill it. I would not be able to rest until I do. I would probably scream. I hate spiders. I would do everything I could to get rid of it.

I used to be terrified of spiders and would shriek, dash into another room and hope it would run away (I'd never kill one, well not intentionally). As I got older, I braved doing the card and glass bit so that I could put offending spider outside without harming it. In the past couple of years, I've been a lot better with them and am currently even allowing a large one to live in my bedroom, as my feeling now is that it's doing no harm, isn't unhygienic, doesn't make a noise, doesn't smell horrible or anything like that. I think what brought me to that feeling about spiders, was some while ago, I was sitting messing around on the computer when a huge, huge hairy monster crawled up over the edge of the surface I keep my monitor on...for some reason though, I found the way the spider did it to be quite cute, as if it was just appearing out of nowhere to say "Hello". Since that day, I've almost completely lost my fear of them.

That a funny nursery rhyme I have no problem with spiders, they eat mosquitoes, and I figure the enemy of my enemy is my friend. With cockroaches, it's a different matter. Recently I found a gigantic one in my bed, just when I was about to tuck in for the night. And I mean gigantic, it was the size of a mouse. So I ran away and slept in the living room for the next week. Not even that, I couldn't even sleep for more than a couple of hours a night, I just stayed awake, playing computer games, with all the lights turned on. Cockroaches seriously freak me out

This makes no sense to me

Or that could be Mr Muffett LOL! I think men although they can be bravado can scream higher that a miss when it comes to bugs and spiders! I have big strong men who are afraid of nothing but when it comes to creepy crawlies they become a shivering mess! However I am not a burly man but I do love spiders, it is the only bug I will not kill. In fact the other week I had a spider above my bed and when I looked closer she had babies! I leave them alone and they are welcome rent free as they eat the other nasty bugs that get in. However none of our spiders are poisonous, if they were then yes I'd be doing the Miss Muffett moment!

Spiders don't bother me. If they're somewhere they shouldn't be, I'll pick them up and put them outside. As for Miss Muffet... I was supposed to play her in a school skit but I couldn't scream. (The boy who was playing the spider had to say: Pardon me miss, is this seat taken?)

Instances like that would have made me jump and run to the exit door screaming. I am quite merciful to all God creations except for any crawling creatures.

You smoosh it. With whatever means possible. Call PETA, but I'm horribly afraid of spiders. And worms. And snakes.

I've had no issues with spiders, in fact I think we need them especially in our country in order to control fly and mosquito population that had caused so much illness and even deaths lately. I understand the Miss Muffet syndrome, I have lots of friends who are afraid of spiders, think the hairy ones give them goose pimples or something, but I really think it's about time we change our perception towards them. Poisonous spiders are rare in our country but I do not know about the rest, could also be a reason why people are afraid of them.

Well one day when I was sleeping I wake up because I felt something very cold on my back, that night I left the window open and a visitor entered to "chat" guest who was the visitor!? a cold frog! , When I felt that I jumped out of my bed turned on the life and began to make the frog go way, that was a nightmare I don't know who was more nervous if the frog or me. But then and I don't know how I went back to sleep. :0)