Spider in the buns!

[mariamousie1]

This isn't really a sucky worker, more like a sucky company, or just a fluke. Anyway, it happened back in the days of yore when I was in high school. Back then my father played pool every Tuesday night, and he'd play through dinner, so my mom wouldn't bother cooking and would buy my brother and I something quick that we could make ourselves. This one Tuesday she picked my brother and I up from school and we went to the supermarket where she bought hot dogs and hot dog buns.
Back at home we were getting ready to cook our hot dogs when my brother pointed out something strange- there was a spider in the bag of buns. A big one. It was still alive and was crawling around in there. I have no idea how long it had been in there, but since we hadn't even opened the bag yet, we took it back to the supermarket and showed the customer service lady, who kind of screamed and jumped back. She then apologized to us and gave us a replacement.
Kind of interesting: My mom later noticed that after that incident, the supermarket no longer carried that brand of buns, up to the day it closed up. Coincidence?
Anyway, since the spider was still alive, I guess the buns hadn't been on the shelf that long. It's hard to believe it could survive being packed into a bag, loaded onto a truck and delivered to a supermarket, although I guess it hadn't been shipped very far. I guess a sufficient amount of air was getting through the bag tie.
Random story, but I got nostalgic today.

[Nohbody]

I'd imagine that a spider wouldn't need that much air, especially if it was resting for much of the time.

Still, though... eww.

I freaking hate spiders, and just about anything else with more limbs than a cat or dog.

[4love]

...I'm going to have a hard time eating hotdogs for a while, now. Ick.

[Lachrymose]

[To the tune of Smoke on the Water]

Doooogs on the griiiill
Spider in the buns!

[Ratha]

I'd prefer a spider than something worse, myself. Especially a live one.

[Ironclad Alibi]

What worse than a spider in the buns? Half a spider.

[Soulstealer]

Well depending on transportation time, packing conditions, etc. The spider may have hatched in the bag rather than crawled into it.

[mariamousie1]

Well depending on transportation time, packing conditions, etc. The spider may have hatched in the bag rather than crawled into it.

That's a good point. Poor spider- his whole life in a transparent bag of bread.

[Lachrymose]

That's a good point. Poor spider- his whole life in a transparent bag of bread.

But really, isn't that all we are? Spiders in a transparent bag?

/existentialism

[jjllbb]

now i want to throw up. ugh.

[Sheldonrs]

...There was an old woman who swallow a spider.
It wriggled and jiggled and tickled in side her...

[seigus]

The spider may have hatched in the bag rather than crawled into it.

That seems even creepier to me.

[Soulstealer]

Anyone else want hot dogs?

[dalesys]

Tamales with an earwig in the cornhusks?
Or a classic from Wapsi Square in 2001 "Fermented banana"

[BlaqueKatt]

The spider may have hatched in the bag rather than crawled into it.

that would be many small spiderlings-not one big spider-spiders lay hundreds of eggs-each about the size of a pin head-even tarantulas-and the general incubation period for spider eggs is 2-4 weeks-not possible, not even likely.