Cool/Uncool
As a kid, Jo’s spiky legs were cool, but as an adult, she found it very hard to keep the spikes from snagging the web she just built . . .
Spider Bling
The black widows had the showy red hour glass, and the golden orb weavers were bright, but Gwen was confident she was the real head turner . . .
Deferred Maintenance
Gilbert (pictured) had weathered the mortgage crisis, though the variable rate mortgage had nearly put him under. Now that the worst seemed to be over, he discovered that he had another problem–“deferred maintenance” inherited from the previous owner.
Networking Guy
When Glenn heard that the heir presumptive to the Speaker job had bowed out and that you didn’t have to be a congressman to be Speaker, he immediately sent his resume. He was the ultimate networking guy, and that should prove valuable. When turned down, he blamed it on “arachnophobia.”
Old Habits Die Hard
When her chute failed to open after exiting the plane on her first sky diving adventure, Zoe began to realize that spinning webs around the chute before it opened may have been a mistake . . .
Little Miss Muffet
As the rhyme goes, “Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet (?) eating her curds and whey, when along came a spider and sat down beside her, and frightened Miss Muffet away. The neighbors were all asking, was this just government overreach or a new threat to our children . . .