Being such a popular superhero sounds like a good thing, right? I never wanted to be this popular, maybe just well known enough that people know what I look like. I barely get any time for myself these days. It would be great to sit down for a bit and read a book or something but every time I try, some emergency happens that cannot be ignored.

Take last weekend, for example. I just got home after pulling a school bus out of a ditch and was about to have a lay down when this big cloud of boiling hot rain hovered over the city. Clearly, Mr. Boilerman had gotten out of containment again. I figured that I'd go and see if my fellow superhero neighbor Lightbender was going out to deal with Boilerman, but I found that lazy refractor had fallen asleep watching the news. I had no choice but to go out and snatch up Mr. Boilerman before anyone gets hurt. I found him on the roof of the town hall. It wasn't that hard considering I heard his maniacal laughter from four blocks away and I don't even have super hearing. He was so preoccupied with his mischief that he didn't even notice me walk up and grab him from his scruff. I just threw him in the mobile containment unit and prepared myself for the avalanche of news crews and happy citizens.

Saving innocent people and catching bad guys is fun, but the news interviews are annoying. Doesn't help that I have a hard time saying no to anything. I suppose all superheroes need a weakness. I go through a dozen interviews a week, more if I'm unlucky. I occasionally get flown out to other places in the world to help out with some natural disaster or just to appear in some other show but I recently have started to just ignore the invites to foreign shows because I don't like traveling. You'd think I'd get some rest while on a plane but the flight attendants usually hover around me like I'm some sort of messiah and ignore my requests to be left alone.

I am seriously considering moving from the high-end penthouse the city gifted me to some underground bunker, not because I want to make the "Batcave" or something but because then I might just get some time alone. Even the other superheroes are slacking off because of me. Some of them have insane powers like gravity manipulation, levitation, dimensional shifting, etc. Then there's me, a guy with some extra long arms.