3 years ago: Jackie at the crossroads

September 19, 2010, here on slacktivist: Jackie at the crossroads

So you’re sitting around with a group of friends talking, the conversation skipping cheerfully from one topic to another, turning eventually, somehow, to a discussion of the best and worst public restrooms you’ve each encountered.

Your friend Jackie says that she is terrified of the bathrooms at the airport. Because of the spiders.

Most of the group hasn’t heard about the spiders, so Jackie explains. There’re these poisonous spiders from South America that stow away on international flights and wind up living in most airports and, because they like cool, damp places, they settle in bathrooms. Under the toilet seats in airport bathrooms. And one of them bit this woman when she was using the restroom and she died. …