dude, without a pic or more info, it's tough to say if it really is spider mites. However if you feel so, use the soap dish as already someone have suggested here.
hey that was a cool story, bro. Are you still working there? did your manager say anything the second day? curious to know buddy as one need a special guts to act like this.
in 70s? you are one of the senior most person here. Well, I've started growing it in my 6th grade and it's been 13years now. As you said, learned many stuff and it's still interesting as it was initially.