I just had a FUCKING SCORPION crawling on my foot

[Spacemom]

I can't sleep so I get up and come log on the computer. It's dark in the office. I feel something tickly on my foot and look down and OH MY FUCKING GOD there's a goddamn scorpion crawling on me. I freaked out and flicked it off. So then, I don't know where the FUCKING SCORPION is. I know my son is awake so I yell for him to go wake up hubby to come rescue me because I'm too friggin scared to move. He walks in and my son is right behind him and I explain my dilemma and then my son yells "It's right behind you dad!" My husband had walked in and stepped right over it. He dispatches the scorpion.

This has been the worst year for them for some reason. We've probably found at least 10 in the house since the spring.

I'll be over here in the corner, quietly having a heart attack.

[sasquatch]

1. You know they have these things called moving vans and they'll take you anywhere

[LynneSin]

5. I think I would rather have tollbooths in my state than scorpions

:scared:

[Spacemom]

10. Why do I have to move?

why can't the scorpions? :D

[LynneSin]

19. Scorpions were there first

I'm just saying!

[Spacemom]

20. Then I was here 2nd

and 2 is more than 1.

I'm stayin'!! :D

[sasquatch]

22. We have a winner

[quakerboy]

11. plus fucking one.

that would be enough for me. i like nature. and scorpions are unnatural.

[armyowalgreens]

2. I've seen plenty of scorpions in my house over the years.

I even slept with one on the wall next to me without knowing it. I found it chilling there when I woke up.

I use to find colonies in my garage.

[Spacemom]

12. Colonies?!?

I think the females carry the babies around on her back. If I saw that I think I'd have to be institutionalized. :scared:

[armyowalgreens]

21. Meh. I think scorpions are kind of cool. They are a lot less scary than spiders.

[sohndrsmith]

26. Do you include bark scorpions in that category? Looked up while sitting on the couch

watching television in the living room one night, and about 3 feet above me - on the wall... a bark scorpion. Went to the south of France as a kid, and several times found shiny black scorpions in the bath tub and had to shake boots and shoes out - but those weren't as venomous as the bark model. Black widows invade the garage every year, but they're intensely timid and very obvious.

Bark scorpions are small and (I think) the only lethally venomous scorpion in the US... Give me a black widow any day over a contradictory flimsy/fragile-looking bark scorpion.... they scare the heck out of me. I was so happy that I'd never seen one (til I saw one right above me in the living room) and it sure has made me more cautious. They're usually small, if I remember correctly, which only makes it worse because they camouflage well..

yeek.

[Joe the Liberal]

3. Wow scorpions....

All I see around here is spiders on occasion, scorpions would be interesting to say the least. Come to think of it I've only ever seen scorpions in tanks as pets.

[NewJeffCT]

4. Sorry to hear that

we'll welcome you to CT - no scorpions here. No fire ants. Poisonous snakes are extremely rare.

[brendan120678]

8. CT is known for a certain variety of poisonous spiders.

We had a huge black widow hanging out on the side of our garage last year.
Scared the crap out of my wife. Of course, I was the one given the responsibility to dispose of it.

Small brown spiders in the house, I don't mind dealing with. That's my job as husband. But a big spider that has the potential to at the very least put me in severe pain for a few hours? No thanks.

[NewJeffCT]

9. I'd never heard of black widows in CT

and I've lived here my entire life...

However, I just looked it up and there is the northern black widow in CT.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080721132506AAMHd2v

[sohndrsmith]

27. brown widows, too - at least on the NY/CT border. But they are hardly as scary as

any tick in that area.... they may not hurt when they bite, but they really mess you up - sometimes for years or longer.

Brown widows don't have as venomous a sting as a black widow, but they're best left alone. There's a website called "What's that bug?" that is really great (if you don't mind the pictures. They're very good at identifying user-supplied images. (scroll down past the Google ads, and you'll find an index on the left-hand side that's quite extensive).

http://www.whatsthatbug.com/

[Captain Hilts]

16. We had copperheads in Groton swamps.

[brendan120678]

18. Copperheads and Timber Rattlers both are fairly common. (nt)

[Jamastiene]

6. Did you happen to hear any horror movie music first?

I wish we could to hear the creepy "oh no, something is going to happen" music before things like that happen, like in the movies. It would make life a lot less scary. :P

[Spacemom]

13. Horror music first?

No, none of that. I think I really would have had a heart attack if anything else had heighented the tension. :D

[Bertha Venation]

7. EEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWW

I'm with you - I would fucking freak.

What part of the country do you live in? I may have known this before but obviously I have forgotten.

[Spacemom]

14. I'm in Central Tx

We live out in the country, and minus the scorpions, I really do love it here.

[sasquatch]

23. Even more reason to move

[backwoodsbob]

36. my brother lives in central Texas

he said his big problem this year has been the rattlesnakes

[baldguy]

15. And people wonder why I live in Buffalo.

The worst creepy-crawlies I have to deal with are the occasional cockroaches.

[Captain Hilts]

17. I like Buffalo, actually. I'd head down there from Tee Oh, or on the way to Tee Oh from DC. nt

[Arugula Latte]

24. Holy shit!

:scared:

I almost stepped on a scorpion (I was wearing flip-flops) when I was in eastern New Mexico, near the Texas border. I wouldn't recommend anybody ever go to that area (Hobbs) for any reason, unless you have grandparents to visit like I did.

[Spacemom]

25. I saw one outside a few days ago

I was fixing to get in the car with my husband. I was wearing flip flops and he told me to step on it. I refused. I'm mostly sure that the sting couldn't reach through the flip flops, but I'm not taking any chances. :scared: :D

[Amerigo Vespucci]

28. That's NOTHING. I had FOUR mourning doves in my back yard last night.

Oh...wait...yours IS worse.

Never mind.

:rofl:

[Deep13]

29. Sounds like it rocked you like a hurricane. nt

[lillypaddle]

30. Oh, that's better

I thought the heading said " ... crawling on my food." Bad either way, though. :)

[azmouse]

31. I just killed a scorpion that was on my front door this morning.

Nasty little critters.
I expect to see a few around each year but luckily none have ever crawled ON me... yet. :scared:

[mike_c]

32. awww, they won't hurt you....

They're kinda cute, in a chelicerate sort of way....

[Deep13]

35. Wide awake nightmare fuel. nt

[Spacemom]

37. OMFG!

was that really necessary???

I'm not gonna sleep for a week. :scared:

[bikebloke]

33. Seen a few

When I was working in the Negev desert, I used to come across them working the fields. Plus, vipers. And great big poisonous spiders. And the notorious Jericho fly (one bite and you have a running sore for six months, eventually leaving small pox-like scars). But worse of all were the fucking regular flies. They wouldn't fucking leave you alone. Give me the scorpions any day.

[Deep13]

34. Come to think of it, the snow here isn't THAT bad. nt