# My husband told me that we had a gecko in the bathtub

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 18, 2013, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-husband-told-me-that-we-had-a-gecko-in-the-bathtub/666538 "2013-08-18T04:49:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![madrabbitwoman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@madrabbitwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madrabbitwoman)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2013, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-husband-told-me-that-we-had-a-gecko-in-the-bathtub/666538/21 "2013-08-19T05:57:42Z")

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We found gecko eggs in my shed. Hatched ones. Cue a dozen teeny tiny squeeful little lizards. Sorry no pics.

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**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2013, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-husband-told-me-that-we-had-a-gecko-in-the-bathtub/666538/22 "2013-08-19T06:05:01Z")

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Charlie has volunteered to visit you.

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**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2013, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-husband-told-me-that-we-had-a-gecko-in-the-bathtub/666538/23 "2013-08-19T06:41:17Z")

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> [@septimus](#):
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> 80.8 ?? (Sorry, I wasn’t trying to check your work, but my OCD manifests itself as involuntary arithmetic. 😛 )

Wow, sorry. I meant 88.  
2.2 X 40=88

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**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2013, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-husband-told-me-that-we-had-a-gecko-in-the-bathtub/666538/24 "2013-08-19T08:03:46Z")

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> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#):
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> Does Geico have some sort of contest with the people who come up with their ads, where the worst ad wins or something? Yeah, the Geico gecko is cute, but the commercials are really, really bad.

I liked the [squirrel](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40kPEjZpM8M) one.

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**Author:** ![Renifer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71c47a/32.png) [@Renifer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renifer)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2013, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-husband-told-me-that-we-had-a-gecko-in-the-bathtub/666538/25 "2013-08-19T14:31:58Z")

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I remember all the times we (my parents, my sister, and I) have had to rescue house mice from our cat. And how many times we’ve found mouse entrails from the mice he’s butchered on the sly. I swear, he’d been reincarnated from Jack the Ripper.

Then we got another kitty, and the first cat stopped leaving corpses around. From then on, he took to eating the mouse whole, because he didn’t want the other kitty to get any undue credit for his kills.

No lizards, as far as we know. Not where we live (the Great Lakes area).

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