#31: Beware of suspicious things

So, a couple of days ago, I was sitting on the living room couch, when I noticed that one of my mugs was lying upside down smackdab in the middle of the living room floor. I thought that was extremely odd. I then remembered I had left my mug sitting by the couch a couple of days earlier, but I definitely had not moved it to its current spot.

One of my roommates was in the kitchen right next to me, and I had just let a guy in the apartment who was waiting for my other roommate upstairs. Since it appeared that no one else was going to remove the mug and I was kind of embarrassed about it just sitting there, I decided to at least put it in the sink where it could be washed later.

I picked up the mug. And then eight scary black legs tried to jump at my face.                      

"WOOOOOAHMYGOSHTHERESASPIDER!!!!"

The mug was quickly replaced to its previous position and the creature that had almost attacked me was trapped where it had been before. My roommate began to laugh hysterically.

"Oh...we didn't tell you about that...?"

The other roommate came from upstairs, and the previous informed her that I had just tried to pick up the spider mug. My roommate's date then walked over, carefully picked up the mug, and took it outside where he flung the spider out to a more appropriate roaming ground. I was so embarrassed. Especially because I have removed far worse and bigger vermin without a problem, but because this one was so unexpected, some guy I hardly knew had to take care of it for me. 

Thank you roommates, for just leaving it there. *grumble*.