April 5, 2009

Spider

Today on the T, I noticed that the man standing across from me had a brown, thick-legged,thumbnail-sized spider crawling up his thigh. It looked vaguely dangerous, and I was going to warn him about it. But he not only had headphones on and was playing some sort of game on his phone, he was also wearing sunglasses. He had effectively made himself completely unapproachable. I watched the spider crawl across the fly of his pants and disappear underneath his North Face fleece before he got off the train.

PS: It was just brought to my attention that I really should have said something to him. Now I feel like an asshole.