Fanciful

He knew he had a problem with spiders.

For a number of weeks, it had been getting worse. Every evening, when he got home, he’d find them. There were lots of them! They seemed to infest every room in his small apartment. It was as though he had been singled out to receive a plague of them. He couldn’t help feeling it was some kind of vendetta. Sure, he’d stamped on the odd one, who didn’t! Maybe he’d squished a particular one, a special one. One that held some sort of superior status. One that was held in high esteem by the others. He couldn’t help smiling at himself. The idea was pretty fanciful. Gettig real, he would get a pest-controller in and have the whole place fumigated.

He made the call the following morning. The exterminator said he could call in at around lunchtime to have a look. It was agreed, and the owner was there when he arrived.

After a careful examination around the flat, he said, “You described it as a plague when you rang, I don’t think you’re far wrong! Anyway, I’m not carrying the chemical I need for this insect in the van. I can only use a spray to have them temporarily run for cover, until I come back, if you like?”

“OK. Let’s do that. At least I won’t have to see them everywhere.”

“I can do that quite quickly. Right now, if you like?”

“Sounds good.”

The pest man looked around and nodded. “I’ll just get what I need from my van, and then I’ll come back tomorrow to give the place the full treatment.”

This was done, so when the flat owner returned home that evening, he noticed that there were far less spiders around.

He watched a couple of television shows until quite late, while lying on his couch, and fell fast asleep. This was something that he was inclined to do from time to time. He would find himself comfortable enough, that he felt no need to get up and go to bed.

When he woke up to the sound of his alarm going off in the other room, he found that he couldn’t move!

He seemed to be tightly wrapped up in something. As far as he could make out, it was some kind of sticky silk thread. Masses of the stuff was tightly bound around the entire length of his body.

Fanciful, be damned, he thought.

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