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"So there I am, sat on the toilet..."

With a quite badly upset stomach, wearing nothing but my boxers, and they're round my ankles.

When all of a sudden, a large wolf spider (about 2 inches in diameter)comes marching out from between the bath and cabinet, straight towards me across the floor.

I swear, if I hadn't already done so, I'd have shat myself.

What to do? I dare not stand up, I've nothing to squish it with, and there's no point screaming like a girl because there's no-one around to hear it. And besides, the door's locked.

Employing my strictly limited contortionist skills to keep my butt firmly on the loo, I stretch... stretch... stretch... across the bathroom sink and manage to grab a can of deodourant and pop the lid off.

It's a life or death struggle as the thing edges ever closer. Suddenly I see my opportunity, and... BAM! I slam the lid down sharply.

When the dust settles, I see that - thanks to my years of hand-eye coordination training on videogames - my aim was true, and the beast is caged. I'm safe at last.

At least until I go back to dispose of the monster. I swear I can hear it snarling.

I had one in my house which was very big.

It is possible to have some seriously big spiders in the UK. I've come across some giants in my house on a few occasions.

The one that really astonished me was one of those ones that have long thin legs and comparatively small bodies, might be called a Harvestman.

*shrugs*

Anyway, this one was immense. Each leg was a good four inches in length (yes, four inches), but only about the width of a couple of human hairs. The body was only about the size of a pea as well. Strange looking thing it was, didn't look like it could even support it's own weight.

Yes moth's are very annoying you throw them out the window they fly back in. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Moths are annoying, if not as bad as wasps.

I now refuse to go to the loo unless the window is shut.

I once knew a bloke who had a wasp in his can of Fanta Orange, but didn't know it until he took a drink.

It stung him inside the top lip when he went to drink, and he went round for a week looking like he'd been smacked by Tyson.

A wasp landed on my coke can yesterday. I went to take a sip and I saw it, I threw the basstard thing accross the room and hid in my toilet.

Should have framed it.

Could have been worse...you could have trashed the toilet trying to fight it...

I think it means just the body. The one that surprised me on the crapper was at least 4.5cm in length when you included the legs. The deodourant cap has a diameter of 5cm and it only just covered the spider.

Bonus wrote:
> I'd safely say it was bigger than the 18mm the website Wookie
> pointed at says is the maximum size.

My guess would be that it means body size on the website. Including the length of the legs, it could easily be the 4cm you described, or even larger!

I was stung by a massive bumble bee when I was little, so I always fear those type of insects more.... I had two options, run out with a bare bum,and that might end up being seen by somone...or be brave and cower in the corner and try to chivvy it out! I chose the latter!!
I hate it when you've got the window shut but you can hear them trying to get in!