When his kitchen was infested with fruit flies, he was glad for the spiders. They resolved the issue in a matter of days, and he just had to sweep up the webs.
But afterwards, the spiders seemed to be everywhere. They spread from the kitchen to every room in his house. He tried to catch and release them at first, but there were too many, and he just started squashing them.
One morning, he woke up covered in spider silk. The room was full webs. The spiders had even spun a message into a web above the bedposts.
‘Union Now.’

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