Found a spider on my desk. These things are lucky, I think.
I'm not a fan of insects; so while I'm not keen to cozy up to spiders, I do appreciate the benefits of their company.
So I don't squish it; and it runs all over my desk all day, all over my monitor, all over my paperwork, all over my phone. And I enjoyed some silly, self-indulgent moments of thinking, hey, this spider could go anywhere in search of food, yet it stays here with me. And I was gratuitously pleased.
And then, just before the end of the office day, someone came by and said, You have a spider on your desk; he knocked it off, and just as I said Don't step on it! he stepped on it.
There's a hurtin' country song in there somewhere.
Posted by edgar at October 17, 2003 01:31 PM