Spider + shoe = Broken wrist

heatherw_01

Sounds like something I would do! Hate spiders!

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I once went out for an evening - put on a fresh pair of jeans and a shirt.

Partway through the evening, felt a damp patch on my leg. I hadn't spilt anything, so went into the loos to check.

Big squashed spider on the inside of my jeans and on my leg.

Gloomendoom

I remember my grandfather advising me that it was a good idea to tip my shoes up and bang them together before I put them on. He spent some time in Africa where he used to find all sorts of nasties in his boots.

I still do it if I have left my shoes or outside the door. I tipped a mouse out of my welly once, so it was good advice.

pollyanna24

Well done for typing all that with a broken wrist!

Hope it doesn't take too long to repair.

Mayflower10cat

I keep my old welly boots in the cupboard under the stairs. Last time I dug them out some instinct told me to give them a shake out before I shoved my feet in. Out feel a really big, though very dead, house spider....

DigForVictory

Absolutely no prizes for guessing what colleagues will want to draw on your cast...
Still, I'm very pleased to hear work is being so helpful & cooperative, & I hope friends & family are likewise supportive. A broken wrist makes the bra strap fiendish, & tin openers often most unhelpful.

Where possible use hair elastics to "convert" shoes to slipons, and a braid, pinned up one day & hanging loose another saves a lot of one handed hairdressing. Just you may need help braiding.

Very best of luck!

pattycake

On holiday in Gran Canaria, I tried to put my shoe on and found something in the way. A huge cockroach!

Dustyblinds

I never check inside my shoes, it never occurs to me. I will from now on as I would hate to think I was standing on a spider, they can't harm me and I don't harm them. Can't understand why people kill them, they keep the flies under control.
Also meant to say, hope your wrist heals quickly, must be awfully painful.

gwen80

Although not in my shoe, I have a story of an injury involving a spider. Last year, at the top of the steps out of my basement flat I walked into a spiders web. I looked down and realised the spider was on my jumper. It wasn't a big spider, but it made me jump all the same. I lost my balance and started falling backwards. There was a handrail, but at a completely inappropriate height, so I couldn't grab it. Long story short, I ended up doing a sort of back-flip type manuoevre and landed on my head onto concrete at the bottom of the steps.

I have to admit, I have sometimes omitted the spider bit out of the story since!

Wishing you a speedy recovery!

thriftyemma

I once found a half-dead mouse in my shoe one morning, courtesy of the cat. That was a blooming shock, as I found it with my bare foot!

I also have embarrassing stories related to broken bones. I've broken bones three times in my life. The first, running to the door cause the cute guy I had a crush on was there (I was 14). Fell down the stairs and broke my coccyx.
The second was rollerskating on the promenade in Nice, France (I was 24). Forgot how to stop, so rather than roll down the hill in to traffic, I threw myself to the floor. Ended up in hospital with a broken wrist.
Most recent time, I was on holiday in Florida, aged 34. I was at a waterpark, and got a bit overexcited. Raced my son to the slide, and kicked a large rock at the side of the path. That one earned me a spiral fracture to my toe, 3 weeks abstaining from driving, and lots of laughs.
Looking back, I dread to think what being 44 will bring!