Memo to self: Never, ever go into Esprix’s room. Ever. He’s got some really strange stuff in there.
Aside to CIA: You know that Osama you’ve been looking for? You might want to check Esprix’s house.
Jeez, Esprix, we lived in La Jolla (UTC) for two years, and I never saw anything worse than a spider. Same for Boulder, CO, except for roadkill.
Now we live up in Orange County, our property backs onto a canyon, and I still don’t have those kind of close encounters! Although we do have coyotes, or kit foxes, or whatever the hell was screaming like a woman being tortured late last night…
If it had been me, I would have already moved. Wimpy? Oh hell yes.
Geez, Esprix, you sound like my mother. She’s terrified of spiders (especially tarantulas), scorpions, centipedes, millipedes, and snakes. I can’t tell you the number of times my father, my brothers and I have had to capture and/or kill these things for her. If it wasn’t venomous, we were satisfied with simply capturing it and letting it go.
As if fire ants wasn’t bad enough…
I was living in Austin Texas at the time. I came home one afternoon and found a scorpion IN THE TOILET. Nobody but me had been home. It was a tiled bathroom. I can’t imagine HOW the thing got into the bowl.
Imagine, getting stung whist on the throne. Being found dead like Elvis isn’t my idea of a respectable way to expire.
Suffice to say, I used the office bathroom for a while.
Great - one more place to check from now on. 
Esprix
I clicked! ack! eek! ick! I clicked on the first link and looked. I was whisked away via memory to the day in Saudi when a scorpion nonchallantly waltzed across the floor of my tent and STARED at me trying to figure out which parts to begin munching on first. I promptly (or not so promptly, as I was frozen in my spot for a while) got up, jumped on top of the cot I was on, and cot-hopped across the room and out the tent screaming like a pansy little bitch. Of course I am a girl, and a bitch, so it was ok.
What upset me most is that I was told “oh, it’ll go away”. and it did. but go WHERE??? I itched for days thinking it was on me. Look, I have hives coming out as we talk.
So has it moved yet? Did you poke it with a stick?
If the worst thing you’ve ever found in a toilet bowl is a scorpion than consider yourself lucky. I work at a fast food chain. I won’t divulge which one, nor the location of said fine “dining” establishment. Anyway, I have seen things that would make scorpions throw themselves under boots, car wheels, and the like in case it came to get them.
I’m so glad I live in Cleveland. The worst things we have are muggers and crooked politicians, and neither one ever attacks from one’s toilet.
Come on people, it’s just a little damn bug with a stinger on one end. I live outside of Austin Texas and everytime I get stung by one it hurts less then the time before. All you do is curse, empty out your boot or tear off the shirt you were putting on and smash the little beast. In an hour or two the swelling goes down and in two days the soreness is gone. Oh, if you want to handle one and not damage it, use tweezers on the tail. As far as the Brown Recluse spiders go, they are pretty fragile. Any kind of a direct blow and they are paste.
oh give me a BREAK!
at least it wasnt a 30mph running, 5ft high jumping, 8 inch long, hyper aggressive, FACE EATING camel spider…to bad something awful had to go pay or I’d dig up the thread for ya.
“my buddy saw it coming and turned to run, but the fucking thing caught him climbed up his back and bit him in the FACE”
was just one of the little stories from the gulf war.
note called camel spider cause it eats CAMELS
Scorpions? Hate em. Hate em with a passion. I especially hate their dumb song “Rock You Like a Hurricane.”
When I lived in New Mexico, my apartment was on the very edge of the city, adjacent to BLM land and an endless stretch of desert. Even though I lived in a second floor apartment, I’d get scorpions every other week or so – and the worst part was they they were the exact same color of the “Landlord Tan” rug.
Here in Florida, a place that’s supposedly notorious for insects, I don’t really find any bugs in the house. I do, however, come across little frogs and lizards every so often. My dog is so gentle, she just watches them with wonder, occaionally stretching out to get a close sniff. The thought of a lizard as a playtoy of sorts doesn’t even cross her mind. The apartment before I moved into the house, OTOH … brown recluse spiders aplenty. ARGH!
Sounds like your criminals need to get a little more creative. 
Sounds more like one of our boys was smoking a little package from home while watching “Aliens.”
Chas.E, pay attention, boy - that joke was done within the first ten posts.
Well it’s not like you were part of the United States or anything… 
Esprix
I found Bird in my friends toilet. (It was dead:() A full grown female cardinal! Anyone care to offer explanation for that one? (Maybe a scorpion got him and dragged him in there? 
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Perhaps your friend just has a rather exotic diet?
Well exqueeze me. I reviewed the thread, watching to see if anyone had done it, and didn’t see it.
LOL! Perhaps! 
Tut tut, lad - you should never ask me to point out the obvious:
Now read more carefully next time or the ghost of Eduardo will haunt your shoes and toilet for all eternity! :eek:
Esprix
“No not my toilet! That’s where I do my best thinking!” :eek:
I really need new eyeglasses. Or maybe a larger screen font.