Posted 12 February 2007 - 12:48 AM
Once upon a time, I was cleaning up an apartment after a tenant moved out and found a box of stuff in a closet. Wondering whether I should throw it away or if the guy was going to come back to get it, I cracked it open and began to rummage through it. Nothing but crumpled up newspaper, packing peanuts, and one hell of a big spider. Being rather shocked at this development, I dropped the box immediately, spilling the stuff inside.
Looking down, I found, much to my chagrin, that the "spider" had been nothing but a mass of black twine. I picked the twine up to peer at it, laughing at my stupidity only to find that, in the midst of the twine, there was a rather large, black, and very real spider looking back at me. After jumping up and down on top of the twine for a while, I decided that maybe I'd start on the other newly vacant apartment at the complex across the street and save that one for later.
-Pufer
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who said it, even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." -The Buddha