Not your average superhero

It was a typical morning, sitting at my laptop, reading email, eating Cheerios, spilling coffee all over myself... and then it happened--the biggest jumpy spider I have ever seen emerged from a modem box I had yet to recycle. Quickly I sprint to the bathroom, only to discover that my Raid was used up last summer in battling arachnaphobia. It's true, I am not one for pesticides except those with long-range spider killers... but here I was with a gigantic beast roaming about my desk and no Raid. I grabbed the next best thing--hair spray and on the way back to the desk, a pair of kitchen tongs. Armed to the teeth, I was ready to face my foe. I sprayed the hell out of the modem box, however, there was no evidence that the spider was even still there. Nonetheless, I grabbed the box with the kitchen tongs and tossed it out on the balcony. Then best all the papers on the desk with the tongs--just in case.

I have no idea if the spider was tossed out with the hair spray covered box, or if it died of natural causes during the day... I just have to live in the hopes that it is no longer in my place--ready to jump at any moment. You just really never know.