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Went outside to put a can in the recycling. Sat down for a second on the doorstep because Air (keeping the door to the boxroom closed through the day can make it stuffy), and went back inside to get another drink out of the fridge, and I realised I could feel something cold on my foot. Now, I had no socks on, but this was on my jeans rather than my foot directly so I shook my leg to dislodge whatever it was. Took another step, nope. Shook my leg a little more urgently. Took another step, nope.

I promptly freaked out and kicked my jeans off entirely onto the floor (yay for closed blinds I guess) and I stared at the floor suspiciously for a bit because my foot was clear. I picked the jeans up very carefully and I checked the leg of them, and I couldn't find anything, maybe it was the eyelets? But they're not cold enough for that and there's nothing else there. So I looked back at the floor. And there is my nemesis - the teeniest little slip of a slug barely a centimetre long and no more than a couple of mm wide. Sigh. Outdone by a baby slug.

Baby Slug was relocated safely outside. Took a bit of convincing to get it on some paper but once it was outside it was like "oooh bin" and away from my paper dish in seconds.

Outdone by a baby slug. XD
 
Yeah I got lucky this one ended up on the top of my foot and not the other way round, but it seemed quite happy to go back outside. In what little light I had it had its little eye stalks up and paying attention the minute I walked outside. Poor thing, I probably freaked it out as much as it did me.

However, I dunno how I'd've coped if this had been a slug-sized slug.
 
I stood on a massive slug in my bare feet taking a bag of rubbish to the bin at the bottom of the garden. It was about 4" long, it didn't half squelch between my toes as my size 11s landed squarely on it with all my weight! 🤮🤮🤮
 
Claire W said:
I once sat down on a step wearing shorts, felt something cold and slimy on the top of my leg and yep, I’d sat on a slug
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I didn't sit on a slug, but I didn't realise one was behind me on a wall (nor can I remember if I was standing or seated at the time) but I only realised what had happened when I saw my hoodie the following morning. :vom:
 
They are so slippy when stood on. Worse than banana skins. And the slime 🤢. So weird. Doesn’t just wash off. It’s like super slime.

Changing the topic slightly. I used to have a pet snail and he wasn’t that slimy at all.

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And here’s his shell after I had to dig him up because we were changing the garden around and I didn’t want it damaged (at least 10 years later).
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It’s now on a shelf in my living room. He was called Snail. 😍
 
Lorcan said:
Went outside to put a can in the recycling. Sat down for a second on the doorstep because Air (keeping the door to the boxroom closed through the day can make it stuffy), and went back inside to get another drink out of the fridge, and I realised I could feel something cold on my foot. Now, I had no socks on, but this was on my jeans rather than my foot directly so I shook my leg to dislodge whatever it was. Took another step, nope. Shook my leg a little more urgently. Took another step, nope.

I promptly freaked out and kicked my jeans off entirely onto the floor (yay for closed blinds I guess) and I stared at the floor suspiciously for a bit because my foot was clear. I picked the jeans up very carefully and I checked the leg of them, and I couldn't find anything, maybe it was the eyelets? But they're not cold enough for that and there's nothing else there. So I looked back at the floor. And there is my nemesis - the teeniest little slip of a slug barely a centimetre long and no more than a couple of mm wide. Sigh. Outdone by a baby slug.

Baby Slug was relocated safely outside. Took a bit of convincing to get it on some paper but once it was outside it was like "oooh bin" and away from my paper dish in seconds.

Outdone by a baby slug. XD
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🤮 I don’t like slugs or snails, although the lesser of two evils is snails!
 
Years ago when going to feed our bunnies in the dark and the rain, I managed to stand on a large slug whilst bare foot and it splattered all up my leg :vom:

More recently, we had a "pet" slug! We never ever worked out where it was getting into the house, and we rarely saw it (it was one of those little black extra sticky ones), but every morning there would be a trail around the lounge. One night it was more adventurous, and worked it's way up two flights of stairs to our attic room. It got as far as the radiator and then turned back on it's tracks! 🤣
 
Speaking of them finding ways of getting in the house, the really big ones that kept turning up in my kitchen? I think I found their entry point. There's a small hole in the front wall of the kitchen I only found after rearranging some stuff in there and I'm 95% sure it's not mice. Even for mice, it's a tiny hole, and I can find no other signs of mice about. Which leaves the slugs.

@VickiA and you can't even get them off the panes with any ease when they're like that either. Gross. :vom:

Edit: and also, this is why I take a torch outside with me after dark, particularly when it's been raining.
 
Lorcan said:
Speaking of them finding ways of getting in the house, the really big ones that kept turning up in my kitchen? I think I found their entry point. There's a small hole in the front wall of the kitchen I only found after rearranging some stuff in there and I'm 95% sure it's not mice. Even for mice, it's a tiny hole, and I can find no other signs of mice about. Which leaves the slugs.

@VickiA and you can't even get them off the panes with any ease when they're like that either. Gross. :vom:

Edit: and also, this is why I take a torch outside with me after dark, particularly when it's been raining.
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Large slugs used to come under my backdoor before I got it replaced. Several visited every night, late one night I found them in the cats bowl tucking into the biscuits, which did explain why the cats refused to eat any leftover biscuits in the morning and insisted on fresh ones:vom: I never knew where they got in until one night I saw a head poking under the door. There was no obvious gap but gradually a body emerged behind the head as if from nowhere.
 
Last year is was bare foot in the kitchen and felt something touching my toe. Luckily I hadn't stepped far enough forward to tread on it :( but I don't go in there without footwear now.
Years ago I was in Tenerife and again, walking around the apartment complex barefoot when something went crunch under my foot YUK it had flattened a cockroach! I still shudder whenever I think about it
 
I don't have a back door, and the living room lacked the sort of slime trail I'd expect if a slug had gone wandering, which is why I think this hole in the wall is at least partially culpable. Oh, for the days when I wasn't the responsible (snort) adult and could get someone else to deal with it.
 
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