A Spider Could Be the Death of You     
     If you were filling your car with gas and you saw a spider hanging around the cap to your filler pipe, what would you do?
     1. Say, "Well, that's interesting, and go on about your business, allowing the spider to do the same?
     2. Take of your shoe and try to whack the spider, even though it had done nothing to you, so far?
     3. Run around the gas pumps, flapping your arms and screaming, "Spider! Spider!"
     4. Or, take your lighter and try to torch the spider?
     Well, a man in Michigan decided to try the lighter method. Flames started from the side of the car, ran along the pavement, and finally got to the gas pump, where things started to get serious. Luckily, an alert clerk inside the store shut off the pump and called the fire department. The report doesn't say, but if the clerk was smart, he then left for the next county.
     The man suffered no injury, the car suffered only a little damage, but the gas pump was destroyed.
     Once again it has come to our attention that gas and fire are not a good combination. I thought this concept was universally acknowledged, but evidently not.
     I was disappointed that the report didn't even mention how the spider fared.