Spider Overlords

Me: “I don’t have any qualms about killing a spider because they have like 500 babies. So, they’re still ahead of the curve by 499 spiders. I mean at the rate they reproduce, they’ll outnumber humans in no time. Pretty soon, we’ll be bowing down to the spider overlords.”
Troy: “Spiders could never take over the world.”
Me: “Why is that?”
Troy: “Because birds would just eat them!”
Me: “What about those bird-eating spiders? They could grow and evolve to form a fighting force to protect the colony against the birds.”
Troy: “Even if, you’d still have snakes, frogs, lizards, and things like that that eat them.”
Me: “Then, you have tarantulas that would defend against those. It’s like in an army, where you have archers, pikemen, infantry, and calvary men. Each group has a special purpose. So, the spider army would have specialized groups of spiders for each type of threat.”
Troy: “There would still be one threat that they couldn’t fight.”
Me: “Oh yeah, what’s that?”
Troy: “A shoe!”
Me [laughing]: “I guess there is that.”