I hate it when that happens
@GardenGerty (169439)
United States
July 19, 2023 7:13am CST
Are you ever just walking along, minding your business and smack right into a spider web? Outdoors, of course.
Happened to me this morning. My face got all covered in clingy silky stickiness. I do not know if a spider was there at the moment or not. I was walking over to the trailer we are loading for the dump.
I am all for outdoor spiders. They eat flying nasties like mosquitoes. I just do not want entangled in their web.
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@GardenGerty (169439)
• United States
20 Jul 23
I still have one cedar tree and they are always webbing under it. I always forget and walk under it.
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@GardenGerty (169439)
• United States
22 Jul 23
@LadyDuck I wish I had a large rosemary bush. So far I have not had any that survive our winters here.
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@LadyDuck (502208)
• Italy
20 Jul 23
@GardenGerty They hide in the middle of my very large rosemary bush here.
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@MarieCoyle (59139)
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20 Jul 23
I hate it when that happens. I always fear the spider is in my hair and it creeps me out!
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@GardenGerty (169439)
• United States
20 Jul 23
I begin to feel like something is crawling on me even when it is not.
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@GardenGerty (169439)
• United States
22 Jul 23
@MarieCoyle I want them to stay off of me, and where I can see them.
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@MarieCoyle (59139)
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20 Jul 23
@GardenGerty
Yes, I hate that feeling. But I really, really do not like spiders.
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@celticeagle (189820)
• Boise, Idaho
19 Jul 23
Ooh! Yuck! No, luckily that hasn't happened in a while. Spiders terrify me so I probably would have had a conniption fit. Those garden spiders weird me out. Daddy long legs I might tolerate but that's about it. Yes, outside spiders only in my world please.
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@GardenGerty (169439)
• United States
20 Jul 23
I found a big brown spider in my house while cleaning yesterday. I encouraged it out the front door.
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@GardenGerty (169439)
• United States
22 Jul 23
@celticeagle I have never heard of a shoe string spider. Now I will have to look them up. Matching pictures I would call it a wolf spider.
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@celticeagle (189820)
• Boise, Idaho
20 Jul 23
@GardenGerty ........I can't handle them. It was probably a shoe string spider. Ugh!
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@DaddyEvil (174296)
• United States
20 Jul 23
Yes and I don't like that, either. I jump around, swiping the web off myself and hoping the spider wasn't included with the webbing that stayed on me.
I don't want spiders in my house but they're fine outside as long as they don't build the web where I need to walk.
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@GardenGerty (169439)
• United States
20 Jul 23
I probably did a pretty funky spider dance when that happened.
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@GardenGerty (169439)
• United States
20 Jul 23
You would think we would learn where to expect those webs.
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@GardenGerty (169439)
• United States
22 Jul 23
@JudyEv Ouch. hurtful and embarrassing.
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@JudyEv (381837)
• Rockingham, Australia
21 Jul 23
@GardenGerty I never did and I was forever banging my head on a hanging basket. I never did get used to it being there! 
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@Starmaiden (9308)
• Canada
19 Jul 23
That happens to me often when I walk after dark. I'm walking down the hill on a path through the trees and get caught up in spider webs. Feels like getting caught in a trap.
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@GardenGerty (169439)
• United States
20 Jul 23
I imagine there are a lot of them there in the trees.
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@GardenGerty (169439)
• United States
22 Jul 23
@Starmaiden Maybe a bat? I love the intricate patterns though.
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@Starmaiden (9308)
• Canada
20 Jul 23
@GardenGerty I've run into some so huge they are as wide as the path itself. You'd think those spiders were looking to catch an owl.
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@AmbiePam (120617)
• United States
19 Jul 23
Ugh. I did that two mornings ago, and the resulting scene was quite amusing: arms flailing, mouth sputtering, with my dog dancing in circles because of the ruckus.
It wasn’t amusing to ME, but at least the two people around me got a free show.
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@GardenGerty (169439)
• United States
20 Jul 23
And of course the dog enjoyed herself as well. Thought it was a game.
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. That stuff is super sticky and strong! The other morning I went through a web line with my leg . . . it's never expected 
.@GardenGerty (169439)
• United States
20 Jul 23
I will trade you for a full webbing face mask.
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@much2say (57760)
• Los Angeles, California
24 Jul 23
@GardenGerty Sounds like a Spiderman kinda thing 
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@GardenGerty (169439)
• United States
20 Jul 23
Might be entertaining for others to see, though.
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@LindaOHio (222285)
• United States
20 Jul 23
Sometimes it happens indoors. Our housekeeper went into a closet that hadn't been opened in months and got a face full! Yuck!
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@GardenGerty (169439)
• United States
22 Jul 23
Oh no!! I have some webs to clean out of some corners.
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