Scorpion in the Living Room

Last night around 11:30 at night I was watching tv in my pj's, slightly dozing when I woke up to a 2" long scorpion running from under the couch.

They really are stupid creatures because it ran out from where it was hidden and ran into the middle of the living room and stood there. It stood there while I ran around the house looking for the dang fly swatter. That thing seems to move all over the house and is never where I think it should be.

About 3-4 minutes later, I found a fly swatter and returned to rid myself of this horrible creature. Like every other time I have seen one, this one also stood there and waited for me to squash it. But a thing like a scorpion you want to make sure it is really dead, so I always hit it again and again to be sure that it is not faking it.

Now that the thing is dead and lying in the middle of my living room, now that I have been brave and killed it, now I am frozen in terror and am actually contemplating running out to the security gate in my jammies and asking Rafael to come and pick it up. After convincing myself that this was the most ridiculous thing for a 43 year old woman to do I searched for the second fly swatter.

After finding the second one, we used one to shoe the dead body onto the other swatter and used it as a long carrying board that was far far away from my body and gave the creature a sailors burial with a flush.

They really are so easy to kill and totally stupid by they still elicit such fear in me that I think I will return to wearing my shoes in the house again and get the house resprayed. Now that the rainy season is over they must be coming looking for water again.