# The Devil Asks: What do you wish for? **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [January 20, 2021, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-devil-asks-what-do-you-wish-for/931024 "2021-01-20T22:07:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 103
**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2021, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-devil-asks-what-do-you-wish-for/931024/103 "2021-01-27T17:20:38Z")
You are no longer afraid of spiders. The next time you buy bananas, [a large spider](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/144677/8) (_Phoneutria nigriventer_) jumps out and lands on your shoe. Unfazed, you do not go into uncontrollable spasms that might shake the spider off; instead, you attempt to calmly shake or swat the spider off. You fail. The spider bites you in the leg before crawling away. You instantly feel intense pain and your leg welts up. Within seconds the toxins will reach your heart and induce tachychardia, causing palpatations, light-headedness, severe difficulty breathing (pulmonary edema), an erection, and potentially a heart attack. When the toxin reaches your brain seconds later you will go into convulsions as you lose muscle control. After a few minutes your central nervous system will sucumb to paralysis and you stop breathing entirely. I wish I had 20/20 vision. ~Max --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-devil-asks-what-do-you-wish-for/931024)._