Well, it finally happened. The event I have been hoping never would occur. That's right. I saw a scorpion in my house. TWO YEARS! Two years I have been living here, scorpion free. BAM! All that sense of security gone forever. I hate scorpions! I am scared of them. Really scared. So, I was sitting on the sofa in family room, all of my kids were in bed and I HEARD (yes, I heard it first - Nolan says I have elephant ears) something and then saw movement in my periphery. I looked and saw a GIANT scorpion crawl into the middle of the room. I was frozen. I stared in disbelief. Could it really be a scorpion? YES!!! Luckily, I had the phone right beside me and immediately called Nolan who was not at home. I told him there was a scorpion in the house, he couldn't believe it either. I ordered him home to kill it. He told me to put some shoes on and squish it because it would take him at least 5 minutes to get home. AHHHH. I still demanded that he come home, so he agreed and told me to try to kill it on my own in the mean time. I dashed to our room, put on a big pair of his boots and quickly headed back before the scorpion vanished. As I walked through the kitchen the scorpion started heading toward the other sofa. I knew I had to do something, so I grabbed a big glass bowl sitting on the counter and bravely slammed it over the scorpion, stood on the bowl and waited for Nolan. When he got home, he had the great idea to taze the scorpion. I told him I would kill him if the scorpion got away. He decided to risk his life and tazed the scorpion until it was pretty well dead and fried. I didn't see any of it as I was standing on the sofa just in case it ran at me! So, here I sit once again living my life in constant fear, jumping every time a hair brushes my arm. I hope it came in on a recent load of tile. I hope, hope, I hope. Don't I know I'm bigger and scarier than a scorpion?
Me
Me
A scorpion the approximate size of the one I saw in my house. HA! I'm not bigger or scarier! Is it on me? I can feel it on me! Shudder...
4 comments:
EWW! Could you even imagine if they got that big?!!? I'm freaking out a little because of that pic.
I hate scorpions too. If you've only been in your house 2 years that means you've moved since the last time, and now you have 3 BOYS! Time sure does fly.
Email me when you get a chance so we can exchange addresses, etc.
Fun to catch up with you!
amyvcpalmer@yahoo.com
You are SO funny ! I love the way you told the story - but very true, I would be scared too. I hate Scorpions with a passion. Good thing Nolan had his tazer. That could come in handy when it comes to Scorpion killing ; )
Thanks for ruining my new-found sense of security. If you get a random call from a crazy lady screaming hysterically that she needs to borrow Nolan's taser, you'll know I found one here.
Post a Comment