#331 – Shoe

I’m usually scared of spiders being in my shoe. Most of the indoor spiders around here are fairly harmless and I guess they would just get squished by my foot and I would never know they were there. Not too long ago my wife was visiting her family in Michigan. Her brother was getting ready to leave for work when his foot encountered some sort of obstruction in his shoe. He turned it over and found that there was a little brown bat hiding out in his shoe. Have you ever found something in your shoes that you didn’t expect to be there?

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  1. Idiot Savant says:

    I never did really find animals in my shoes before, but I did find a scorpion under my hat once.

  2. Mr Elmo says:

    I once found $5 in my shoe. I had left it there accidentally when I cleaned out my pockets to get onto one of those inflatable bouncy things. I gave my head a severe smacking, so it wasn’t so surprising that I had forgotten.

  3. Nafka says:

    yes, a little Action figure that my brother had :p

  4. CFChunx says:

    One of my friends decided that it would be a great prank to put a nail in my shoe facing my toes…Long story short it went in between my toes and about an inch into my foot. Needless to say I was very surprised.

  5. mr. kitty says:

    sneaky toasters also watch out for microwaves in coats

  6. Hominyjibjib says:

    Last summer while out camping I was tapping my shoe out before putting it on (As you should always do when camping) and out falls a scorpion mama with loads of baby scorpions on her back… and who knows how many more fell off inside my shoe. Sorta similair I was at my grandpa’s old farm out in the country and ripped a flap off a cardboard box for a rain cover. When I turned it over there was a spider egg nest filled with at least a hundred little baby spiders crawling around inside ©_©

  7. Warcrime says:

    Heh, Toaster in the shoe…

    I think it would have been pretty funny if a swarm of bats came flying out of his shoe XD

  8. Allie says:

    I have found things like coins and bits of lego and little lego people in my shoes thanks to my brother, but the worst thing I have ever had is a spider in my sleepingbag. It was massive and it took me almost 5 mins to realise it was there!

    Eww

  9. cyber95 says:

    Damn toasters. Why can’t they stay in the kitchen and just toast my pop-tarts like I want them to!?

  10. Bunnyman says:

    Yes. I thought I had Atlantis in my shoe once. Turned out to be a piece of paper my oh-so-kind brother stuffed in my shoe.

    I also found a buck fifty in my shoe… Never a toaster, though.

  11. Imaginary says:

    I found a kitten in my shoe once, it pounced on me when I went to get my shoe.

  12. Bookfound says:

    Is this the same toaster with snake DNA integrated into it from comic #278?

  13. Elli says:

    That’s what I’m thinking. 😮

  14. Delegate says:

    It’s a subspecies of the snake toaster, having been able to adapt to the environment of the urban shoe.

    Scientists have been in a battle over this species categorization with Serpentus Toastus and Toastia Burntieri being the two proposed names.

    This subspecies’ name however, has been agreed to be urbanus.

  15. Cheryl says:

    I remember running outside with my sandals on and suddenly feeling something wet and squishy on my heel. Somehow when I was running I picked up a slug and was squishing it with my foot. It was icky!

  16. Eleanor says:

    Delegate: I agree it’s proabaly the snake toaster, but do you know if it has developed venomous socket pins?

    I once found a small brown frog in my wellington. We were in Wales at the time and the frogs had found a hole (that we have yet to find) and kept getting into the house.

  17. Mr. Son says:

    Well, Biff, it’s your own fault for creating snake-toasters.

  18. Elle says:

    Man, I too get scared of spiders in my shoes. So I check them before I put them on, by sticking my hand in there and moving it around to see if I can feel a spider. It is just now that I see that the logic of that may not be as good as I once assumed.

  19. Mort says:

    I found my glasses in my shoe, well not found it i slipped in and crushed them. I was camping and at 5 in the morning i wasnt able to remember that i put them there to be safe.

  20. Kayru says:

    A bat? Oh my!

  21. Markisa_xX says:

    Here’s my story of strange things in my shoes

    So here I am all ready to go out and all I’ll be needing are my shoes. I go out I put one on then I notice that there’s something keeping me from wearing the other one. Whatta know what it was? A FROG. and BIG one at that. Seriously it was like the size of my hand.

    I was more surprised that I didn’t notice it in the first place.

  22. Koer says:

    Great, thanks for making me paranoid about spiders in my shoes.

  23. ethereal-blade says:

    I once had a blackwidow spider and its nest under my mattress. Thankfully we discovered it before the eggs hatched:D.

  24. another foot.
    then i realized they werent my shoes.

  25. Rhiannon says:

    Yep. I’m pretty paranoid about spiders in my shoes too. So I squish them and then shake em out before putting them on.

  26. Sam says:

    A couple years ago at me cottage I needed a pair of shoes that I could wet. I started looking around and found an old pair that belong to my dad. I checked the one shoe to see if anything was in it, and there wasn’t. Unfortunately, I must have thought that the meant the other shoe was empty too, but then I stuck my foot in I heard a nice crunching sound and felt something against my toes. I took to shoe off and shook it. A big mouse fell out. Luckily it had been dead for quite a while.

  27. soulofaqua says:

    I once found a bag of weed in my shoe it probably fell out of my brothers pocket when he searched it
    P.S. I am from holland weed is legalized here I even grow it myself.
    P.P.S don’t get paranoid about it!!

  28. Kara says:

    A bat?! An actual bat? Wow. I’ve never found anything odd in my shoes, but for an april fools prank my sister did. My step-mom thought it would be funny if she stuck a dead coackroach in my sisters shoe. My sister actually put her foot in there. She screamed sooo loud. My step-mom thought it was soooo funny. My sister was pissed as heck. She wasn’t to very found of our step-mom for the rest of the week.

  29. Diana M. says:

    Let’s see:
    A Gameboy game;
    Coins;
    Playdoh;
    An Apple center;
    My Nokia;
    A pog;
    A pen;
    and a math exam.

  30. Gobbledegook says:

    Nothing in my shoes, thank goodness, but I did accidentally take a shower with a bat. By the time I noticed it, the poor thing was too drenched to fly and was simply cowering in a corner.

  31. Johel says:

    There was a dead rat in my right sneaker once when I was a kid. After that I would check my shoes every morning for a few years.

  32. Kanki-chan says:

    My Dad found a wrench in his jogging shoe when I was about four (I put it there, and for the life of me, I can’t remember why I did that). From then on he kinda hid his tools, rathe than keep them in the shoe closet.

  33. Spooner says:

    i have big feet ( size 13 1/2 ) and sometimes my cats get some babies.. well, once i found a little kittie in my shoe. since then i keep them in my room, so the cats can’t reach them.

  34. Seraphine says:

    Before it’s too late, Biff, don’t stick a knife in your shoe/toaster!

  35. Jes says:

    a mouse head that my cat left me as a bday present

  36. Hanii Puppy says:

    A tennis ball B)

    my dog likes his balls :3

  37. Z says:

    I’m a computer engineer. In college, I once walked around for most of a day with what I thought was a sharp pebble in my shoe. When I finally got the chance to dump it out, however, it turned out to be an electrical component from the lab where I was taking classes.

    -Z

  38. Krystal says:

    My dog once left me a bloody rabbit’s head in my shoe, and my cats give me all the mice that they catch, except they like to stick them in my bed and in the dryer. Toasted mouse does not smell good. 😛

  39. Caniac says:

    A small kingsnake; I adopted her.

  40. The Amzinf Teenage Zombie says:

    Not me, in particular, but my dad did find about two weeks worth of dog food stashed in his boot by a mouse.

  41. trueblaze says:

    For some reason my cats think my shoes are a good storage place for their toys when their done playing with them. Other than that I’ve been lucky enough not to have a spider or anything squishy in my shoe. Though now that I’m thinking about it I’ll probably check my shoes ever time I put them on just to be sure.

  42. 1984 says:

    cockroaches and their eggs! eww.

  43. Radical Edward says:

    Because I have to leave my shoes outside before I go into the house, I’m a little wary to wear my boots. Now the boots I have only go up the calf halfway and are really heavy.

  44. Morzikei says:

    I once found something that looked like cat vomit on my shoes… Wel, not in them, but I was in a hurry so it was very fun, since the vomit had dried up during the winter.

  45. Micah says:

    Is this because he put it on his face that one time?

  46. Louis says:

    Someone else’s foot. Naw jk. But my mom does wear my sandals a lot.

  47. Envious Luna says:

    Well, it wasn’t me, but my mum found a chipmunk in her shoes on a camping trip once. It had decided her shoelaces were both tasty eatings and a good nesting material.
    ………My mum is such a softie she left the shoe there for it. I often wonder if that shoe (or its remnants) are still in that forest.

  48. Foxfire says:

    Umm….Camping trip with the boy scouts, first one for me (as a scout), the camp was always covered in daddy long legs. Shook about 12 out of my shoe one morning.

    Differnt camping trip, I’d decided to sleep under the stars because it was looking to be a nice night. I wake up about 12AM, to something on my face…it was a spider. Even better, it was a nice almost full moon, so I look more or less like the ground was moving, as well as parts of the top of my sleeping bag…needless to say, I didn’t sleep to great that night.

  49. dragonbrad says:

    i have founda whole bunch of moths taring at the inside of my shoes, an ice cube that my cousin put in my shoe as a prank, an wile i was at a shoe store i found fibngernail in one of the shoes there

  50. dragonbrad says:

    oh yeah afriend of my dads shot a spider with his rifle dead center

  51. Ela says:

    Well… I found gum in my rollerblades. Had a hard time getting my foot out.

  52. Ryan says:

    Um…your cat gets babies?

  53. Jolser says:

    We bought a pair of rabbits when we were kids, and one of them got away. We searched all over the house for several hours, and just when we were about to give up, it was found hiding in a shoe. The only part of it you could see was its back, so it kinda looked like a gray sock.

  54. Teela says:

    My cats occasionally drop spools or bottle caps into my shoes (thankfully, no mice as of yet).

  55. evilgoddess62 says:

    I’ve discovered rolled-up socks in my shoes that I stashed there and forgot about. There’s a parking lot covered in gravel right behind my house, so I’ve always got little bits of rocks in there too. No spiders or bugs of any kind, though (luckily).

  56. Raile says:

    I find lab bloack in my shoes regularly–I own rats and they like to take their food and hide it about when I let them out to play. They also hide it in my pillowcase.

    Nothing unduly spooky or surprising, though. OH wait. Yes.

    My roommate’s hamster got out and we searched and searched and we couldn’t find him. It was a bit worrisome. The next day when I woke up, though, I was late and in a hurry and I forgot all about him. I fed the kids (my nickname for my rats), brushed my teeth,a nd grabbed my books. When I went to shove my feet in my shoes, though, my toes met something squashy but definitely solid. More surprisingly, that something SQUAWKED at me. I backed out quickly and a little chubby ball of black velour waddled out.

    I returned him to my roommate with a firm reminder to keep the cage shut tightly.

  57. Joe says:

    In Iraq, I once found camel spider in my shoe. Fun fact: They’re not actually spiders! But nevermind that. Instead, look at this fun picture: http://www.survivingtwilight.com/images/Camel%20spider%20in%20barracks.JPG

    You may find other extreme examples of large ones in the intertubes, but this is pretty normal for those buggers (who are actually more closely related to scorpions than they are spiders, but both are arachnids).

    I was also once assaulted by a spider while I was watching TV in bed. A wolf spider – and rather large, for the species which live in North Idaho ( a leg-spread of maybe 1.5 inches at it’s widest) – literally ran up and sat on my chest… I swear it looked me in the eye. So I flicked it. Lazar! PEW PEW! – and it flew across the room and I heard it smack against the wall. I felt kinda sorry for it… until about 45 seconds later, when it ran up my arm and attacked me (well, I would’ve been pissed about being flicked across the room too). Needless to say, it didn’t survive that second encounter.

  58. Bob says:

    Ive had legos fall out of a box i was moving and into my shoes, a lot of them, so when i stuck my foot inside, i hit a wall of sharp pointy plastic.
    Last month, my hamster, Gorby had goten lost when he was exploring my bed and somehow had fallen off my bed and climbed into one of my shoes, thank goodness i saw him cleaning himself when i picked the shoes up.

  59. bAT L. says:

    I once found cat puke in my shoe. Luckily I was just going to a friend’s house and not to work or class or anything, since I only have one pair of shoes.

    *Gross-out warning* Use discretion before reading the following story.

    Now here’s where the story gets interesting. I only had that pair of shoes, so of course I had to get it clean. I tried using a paper towel and some random floor cleaner. That got most of it out, but there was still some in there, along with the smell of cat puke and cleaner. I searched around the house and, ignoring everything I’ve heard about not mixing cleaning products (a seriously dangerous thing to do), used another cleaning product of some sort on it. It was a white powder and got the color out, but now it smelled like cat puke and two different cleaners, not to mention the fact that it was still damp. I decided to leave it outside for a while to dry and air out, since I was still going to go to my friend’s house. A little jaded at this moment, I was complaining about my shoe. I said “Great. I bet some other animal is gonna come puke in my shoe while it’s outside.” By the time I went outside, I noticed something green and shiny in my shoe. I was thinking maybe that’s just the awesome color it turned from my cleaning experiment. As I got closer, I could see it was kind of moving. I reached for the shoe and about 50 little green flies all flew out at once. Sure enough, if I know how flies eat, they all puked in my shoe while it was outside. Sometimes it bites to be right. The shoe still smelled, but it looked presentable enough. My shoe continued to smell until I finally bought new ones the week after. Also, even though it looked clean, the sock on that foot kept turning dark. You would think it would run out after a while, but that cat must have had some potent stomach acid. Of course I told everyone about it the next day. Since then he hasn’t puked in my shoes at all. I don’t know why he did in the first place.

  60. Entropic Voight says:

    Had mr a wasp in my shoe. Took me half a day of fooy pain to find out.

  61. Entropic Voight says:

    foot.
    foot pain.
    On my feet.

  62. phuzzie says:

    cat puke :{ eew.

  63. Wired says:

    i found a 3 inch grasshopper in a printer. it was actually earlier today, too.

  64. Sye216 says:

    I ahve had a few things in my shoe. I once carried a penny in the bottom of my sneaker an entire day (For god knows what reason, I was young at the time) and I once shoved a finger-sized flash light in my socks when I went to a sleepover in case I needed it. And My friend once found a fake millino dollar bill in her shoe and threw it at someone.

  65. Kamorth says:

    My three year old neice. She likes to wear my shoes ‘cos they’re prettier than her mum’s ones or something.

    What I couldn’t understand was that the shoes I keep finding her in are over the knee, lace up stilletoes. and she’s tiny for her age. They’re longer than her legs! Yet somehow, she manages to walk in them.

  66. f_stealth says:

    I found a toad in my shoe once. I was scared.

  67. nikie says:

    i had a pair of nice shoes left outside for god knows how long and i went to put them on one day. so i shoved my foot in one after running it under the hose to get all the caked on mud off them (well, the were nice before i left them outside for immeasurable time) and for some reason i couldn’t get it on or i felt something or something along those lines. so i peered into it and there was a GINORMOUS jumping spider in there! it was HUGE. so i threw the shoe across the porch and screeched loudly. my dad came out to investigate and informed me that jumping spiders were cute and i was oversensitive.

  68. Dudeman says:

    Well, one time when I was trippin balls on shrooms, SOMEHOW a PUPPY managed to get all the way inside of my shoe to the point where I wasn’t able to see the little guy and when I stepped in it and heard the little guy whelp….instead of takin my foot out and freakin out, my buddy laughed and said “MAN!! Your dogs are killin ya ALREADY?” Well, needless to say for you ANIMAL LOVERS out there, the whelp got louder when I shoved my foot more in and then I actually FELT it then and was just glad the little guy wasn’t harmed by my squashin him with my foot.

  69. nemo says:

    u no i never was worried about anything in my shoes b4, but now im gona go screaming out ov the room if theres anything in my shoe! i can picture it now…: GIRL DIES OF HEART ATTACK AFTER FINDING BARK MULCH IN HER SHOE THINKING IT WAS A SNAKE!!!! (that was a long headline) So if u didnt catch my drift, i’ve never had anyhthing bigger than a loose shoe lace in my shoe.

  70. Kuroiten says:

    Lessee…I’ve had coins, mud, dirt, sand, plastic bags, random bits of paper, pebbles…y’know, usually inanimate things. The only living things I’ve found in my shoes have been siblings (borrowing my shoes) and a slug, who probably died as soon as I stuck my foot in.

  71. Dareon says:

    Rawhide dog chews. A spoon. Pocket change. A ketchup packet (Ew.).

  72. Lynxeh says:

    when I was really little, I used to wear cowboy (or rather, girl) boots. I would always go out to the couch in the living room to put them on. One morning, I went out to put my shoes on and my foot crumpled down to the toes…. rock right? I tipped it over and a HUGE palmetto bug dropped out onto my lap and ran across the living room…. my dad had to chase it down, and it got pretty far untill the end…

  73. Garrett says:

    I’m surprised the toaster fit in there. Maybe there’s some magic expandable space or a portal to another dimension in there, *shrug*.
    I normally turn my shoes over and shake them to get any unexpected things out, but I know that some things may cling on. I suppose maybe I should start putting my shoes in airtight containers, although that’s not normally a good idea for stinky things that need to air out. Maybe mosquito netting would work.

  74. Fudgie says:

    A year or so ago I was in one of my classes at school and I was a little bored so I took my shoe off to draw on (Converse shoes are fun to draw on) when a piece of corn fell out. I proudly yelled out “Hey, I found corn in my shoe!” and held it up for all to see. I’m pretty sure some of my classmates are scared of me. 😛

  75. WeridoMan says:

    pizza.

  76. Dalton says:

    my father once found a golf ball in his shoe that I might have put there myself

  77. Der Lex says:

    Hmmm… I like the Idea with the moskito netting…
    But Garret: Simple solution to the problem how the toaster fits in there… Biffs Shoes are made out of old womens bags… and everyone knows that there is always more stuff in it as should be able to fit in

  78. K says:

    I found a bee in my boot, once. Amazingly, it didn’t sting me, just wriggled around until I pulled my bare foot out of the boot and let it zoom out and away.

  79. Leo says:

    Well it wasn’t in my shoe but once there was an octopus tentacle in my order of fries. It was raw, I mean….o_e

  80. the Scarf says:

    His shoes are dimensionally transcendental, just like the TARDIS in Doctor Who.

    My dad used to live in Singapore, and went an entire day with a centipede in his shoe. Centipedes are poisenes, but it was at such an angle that it couldn’t bite his foot. Lucky him, eh?

  81. Trojianmaru says:

    I’ve been lucky with shoes (although I’ve lay in bed with a spider an inch from my face, and a few nights ago I felt something on my finger, I thought it was the remains of a snak I had been eating, but when it wriggled between my teeth and tounge, I took it out and found a small crushed spider (but it was alive when it was on my finger). anyway, my dad once picked up his boot, sunk his feet in and found the dog had used it as a toilet for it’s poop. He….wasn’t happy XD I was XD

  82. snakeadelic says:

    Nothing spectacular in my shoes, but:

    I used to have a friend nicknamed Goof who was legendary for having incredibly stinky feet. He never lived it down–one night while he was sleeping a mouse crawled into one of his dirty socks and died there.

    I keep snakes, and thankfully most of my boyfriends have really liked them. Including the one who got woke up by one of my corn snakes, which had escaped from its tank, tickling his flanks while he slept because the snake had gotten into the bed and the boyfriend was nice & warm. He came lunging out of bed, arms windmilling, and just said “Snake!” when I asked what was wrong. Didn’t even yell at me!

  83. DrT says:

    Presents, here in Holland we have a holiday (today, we’re not free though). Sinterklaas or santa clause (as americans call it and got it mixed up with christmas) comes to bring presents. So he brings chocolate letters and other candy, sometimes videogames and stuff 😀

  84. Tuesday says:

    holy… continuity? The snake toaster is still about, it seems.

  85. Paige says:

    When my brother and I were kids, we had a lot of outdoor cats. One summer, my brother had left his boots outside. The next day when he started putting them on, one of the boots felt like it had on obstruction. He then proceeded to tip the shoe over only to discover a dead mouse was in there. Apparently, one of the outdoor cats used his shoe as a hiding place…

  86. Elkian says:

    Lil’ buggahs ah wars thahn scorpions.

  87. Vron says:

    I found poo in my shoe once. = Someone let their dog poo on our porch, and it landed in my shoe.

  88. Mike says:

    I wear big shoes — Size 16 in mens to be specific. One morning I tried to put on one of my shoes but it was rediculously heavy and full of something. A moment after I hit it with my foot, my cat came out of my shoe.

    Interesting morning, I tell you what.

  89. KZero says:

    I once found the entire state of Rhode Island in my left boot. True Story.

  90. Requiem says:

    One time I found a pack of gum in my shoe. It actually made sense, because the place where my family always had the gum was always above the place where we had our shoes, so… I guess it’s not that surprising. Although I think no one would have wanted it if I actually told them where that pack was… X(

  91. DRUNKSNIPER999 says:

    I remember one time when i went on vacation in florida, i went to put my hiking boots on, but like i always do, i turned them over to dump them out. what came out scared the heck outta me, it was a little black red and yellow snake. I thought it was a venomous, i pretty much jumped like 5 feet in the air and was on a counter in seconds. I called for help and my friend came up with the manager, who came in and just picked the little guy up. i asked him why he did that and he said that it was a florida scarlet snake, and not a coral snake. so i did some research and found out that the coral snake is the venomous one, and even learned a little rhyme. Red touch yellow, kill a fellow. Red touch black, venom lack. needless to say i felt a little embarassed about it afterwards, but it became a family favorite story.

  92. AdmiralChaos says:

    i don’t know whether this tops everyone or not, but i have successfully shot myself in the foot, with the airsoft pistol that i had hidden in my shoe. luckily, being my heel through a sock, it didn’t hurt too bad, but the concept is still just as dumb ><

  93. Leaf says:

    I found keys in my shoe before, and found them before I went out of the house.
    My friend sat down in the middle of playing tennis once, took off her shoe and tipped it upside down, a small screwdriver fell out. She’d thought it was just a stone.

  94. Maarten says:

    my stretchpiercing the first time i took them out in bed in the morning i awok and took them to fall back asleep i woke up again and yanked the sheet and by that i laughed the stretch and never hear it fall i looked everywhere but because of a timelimit i would look after i got back for them i took my shoe and found it wigling between my toes :p

  95. Bug says:

    Where I live we have these King Crickets the size of small mice running about (they are named Parktown Prawns and are the most disgusting, creepy things you will ever see) Link to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parktown_prawn.

    One morning I put my school shoe on and my foot didn’t quite fit, so I looked inside to check out why that was. And one of those bastards was staring back at me. Elch. The cats like them though. They chase them around until they die. Unfortunately they spray this foul smelling liquid when threatened. Ick.

  96. LadyLuck1337 says:

    When I was a kid there was an annual Christmas pageant at my school. We had to take off our boots to go into the gym. One year the teachers put goody bags in our boots. I just stepped into my boot and squished the bag. There was an orange in there and the pressure from my foot caused the bag to burst. I had to walk home with orange juice and gummi bears in my boot.

  97. Lance says:

    Strangest thing I ever found in one of my shoes was my Chihuahua. I kid you not.

    She was a puppy at the time, already very attached to me. I guess she was investigating, thought the shoe smelled a lot like me, and figured it would be a nifty place to sleep. Thank God I noticed the shoe was heavier than usual or I might have…well, I don’t like to think about that. >_>

  98. cam says:

    20 bucks and a few knifes and a gun once

  99. animetriplicate says:

    I’ve never found anything in my shoe, but the other morning I found this weird purple paint under one of them. Just under that one shoe. I still have no idea how it got there, but there’s purple shoe prints in the garage now.

  100. Skilo says:

    a cockroach 🙁

    a big one, gross

  101. steve-o says:

    Nothing in my shoes, but my mom once put on her shoe and felt a sharp pain. She took it off and found a flattened cockroach. The noise she made was very interesting.

  102. Z2012 Ed says:

    The worst thing I ever found in my boot got in there after my foot was already in it. I managed to get a piece of base board attached to the bottom of my boot. Problem was the nail that was attaching it to my boot happened to go through my entire foot (and almost out the top of my boot).

  103. Alice Love says:

    Someone said they found a kitten in their shoe – I left my shoes off at the park by my house, so I could go wade in the fountain, and when I came back their was a lost baby kitten snuggled inside my knee-high socks. <3 We couldn’t keep him, so my best friend took him.

    I found earwigs and ticks in my shoes, and once I didn’t check them before placing them on and when I took them off, like 5 ticks were attached to my feet. Huge and red D:

    I also got a leach in my bathing suit once.

  104. >w says:

    Never had anything in my shoe. but had a bee in my long sleeve shirt (while I was wearing it), needless to say, I got stung.

    A year after that, a lizard crawled into my school uniform (also long sleeved). We were about to kill and preserve some crickets and everyone was creeped out by the crickets in a plastic bag. Suddenly, I shuddered because I felt something creeping up my arm, and a lizard jumped out from my sleeve.

  105. HollyWd says:

    I found a cricket in my shoe once. It was summer, so I was wearing keds (the little sneakers popular with kids before today’s flip-flops) without socks. I felt something in my shoe, and when I pulled my foot out there were legs stuck between my toes.

  106. ThatSomethingGuy says:

    My father used to find ‘gifts’ from our cats in his shoes.

    Speaking of finding unpleasant things in odd locations though; how does a decomposing lambs foot in bed sound?
    Growing up, we always had pets. We also had a small amount of land, which we had a couple of animals on. When one was slaughtered, the pets would make off with what they could. Unbeknown to us, one of our dear little doggies had gotten a lambs foot, and decided to bury it, for later enjoyment. Unfortunately, they’d decided that one of our beds was the place for the burying.
    After a couple of months, we noticed an odd smell, but couldn’t place it. We looked through everything, but couldn’t shake anything out. A week or so later, and we were completely stripping the bed, and made the discovery.

    Amazing what you learn reading comments. Another poster linked to the Parktown Prawn. It’s amazing because it’s remarkably similar to the Weta of New Zealand. Except, Weta in your shoes are significantly worse, as they have Very strong mandibles, and a bite HURTS.

  107. moradin says:

    there was a snake in mt boot once non venomnes thank goodness

  108. Tordoc says:

    @Thatsomethingguy

    Heh. I’ve gotten many “presents” from my cats over the years.

  109. BrainpanSonata says:

    Once, a cockroach. Last time I stayed at that particular hotel.

  110. SurveySays says:

    i was a camp councelor one summer and had brought like 3 pairs of shoes with me. one for normal stuff one for horseback riding and one for creekwalking and hiking and stuff. needless to say the ‘normal stuff’ pair hardly ever got used. when i sadly packed up my stuff at the end of the summer i found that pair of shoes with a momma mouse and three kids. they had eaten most of the one shoe and nested in the other one so i left them.

  111. I had a lump in my school shoe as I was walking to the bus stop. Thinking it was a rock, I continued walking the 2-block distance. Then when I shook it out it was a live and angry spider.

  112. Tech says:

    I found a bat in my life jacket once…

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