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I was just invaded!!!
Posted By Kissa
There I was, in the kitchen minding my own business and rinsing out the mop, when it happened. I saw movement to the right of where I stood so I turned to look and saw this:
No, seriously, this lizard was HUGE. I do not touch reptiles. Someone screamed. Oh, that was me. Someone ran to the bedroom. Um, that was me too. What to do? What to do? Hmm, I’m a problem solver. I can do this. I call my husband who is still at work and very busy.
Me- “There’s a lizard in the house.”
Him- “What do you want me to do?”
Me- “Get him out!”
Him- “I’ll be home in a few hours.”
Me- “A few HOURS??!!”
Him- “I have to get back to work.”
Me- “One more question.”
Him- “Hurry.”
Me- “Is this a feasible reason to call 911?”
CLICK
DIL calls her father who lives across town. “Shoot it!” he says. Okay, um, not going to consider that suggestion.
I call to the DIL- bring me the empty Fed-Ex box and the duct tape. (I live in the south with a family of rednecks, we use duct tape for everything) One of my window panes fell out a while back and since we have storm windows it hasn’t been on the high priority to get fixed. The lizard was now between the window panes.
One chair to stand on, two boxes, and a roll of duct tape later- the lizard is trapped until hubby gets home. He has air and there may even be a bug or two in there so I think he’ll be fine.
Fed-Ex boxes- $2.99
Roll of Duct Tape- $5.99
Calling my mother on the phone to tell her that I wouldn’t touch a lizard and he was trapped between the panes and listening to uproariously loud laughter for at least 10 minutes- PRICELESS
(I think I’ll go to bed before the DH comes home and finds the kitchen window taped up!)
May 28th, 2009
LMAO I’m sorry I cant help it….I can just picture you in a stand off with the lizard….Dum dum duuuummm…..
I didn’t mention that a big bubble appears below his neck when he breathes. Ug! Disgusting. Now you know I’m a girly girl.
Omg sounds scary ,but I swear this happened to me but with a bird instead it flew in my house and my husband reacted the same way your husband did, when I called him at work hehe. I was panicking and my husband was like honey what do you want me to do and I was like come get it out of the house. lol. Luckily my neighbor,s son stayed home from school that day he helped me out. He probably was having a good laugh with his friends probably saying my crazy neighbor, lol. Good luck with your new friend…
lol, I can just picture the whole thing! You crack me up, girl! I’m ok with lizards, its those darned spiders that get me each time.
ROFL!! Yep, right up there with Faith’s tales.
LOL!
Uhm…did I mention I discovered a copperhead in my basement the other day. What? You didn’t hear the scream?
Leaundra- that happened to me at work. But the bird was up high on the ceiling and wasn’t bothering me. I can’t imagine it in the house!
Debra- I can squish spiders. : ) Not lizards though!
Lisa- OMG, I swear karma is getting me for laughing at Faith’s stories about creatures in the house!
Faith- No, you didn’t find a snake! In the house?! OMG I’m jumping up on the bed just thinking about it!
If it were in my house, it would be our pet now. I so love lizards. They can bite too. But he sounds cute.
OMG girl, you are so funny!
OMG! LOL. Too funny, I can just picture it.
My four-year old calmly walked into the front room the other day wafter playing with her 10-yr old brother and picked up her shoe, then walked back into the bedroom. I figured World War III was commencing, so wandered in to pick up the pieces.
End result: 10-yr. old BOY was on the bed cringing while 4-yr. old sister was smashing a huge spider with her shoe. She walked back out, wiped her shoe off on the grass and said: “I squished da ‘pider’, Mama.”
LOL. That’s my girl. The boy is his Dad’s.
Chaeya- You can have him. Please come take him now. haha
Val- Not funny. Okay, I did scream like a girl. That was kind of funny. He took me by surprise!
Cassidy- Love that story! We have an 80 pound German Shepherd who was in the house the other day and when we heard a noise he jumped onto the bed and dove under the covers. So much for protecting me. I had to calm HIM down!
DH came home. He said the lizard was so small he couldn’t reach it inside the window pane. Hmm, I didn’t know reptiles shrank. Wow, you learn something every day! Anyways he opened the outside window and closed the inside one. Now the cute lil’ thing can crawl right outside! Isn’t that special. And now I’m wondering- why didn’t I think of that?!!
I have that reaction to spiders. I dropped a giant dictionary the floor because there was a spider on it. It woke my mother up, and she was really pissed when she came into the room to find out that the screaming and thud were not the result of me falling, but it was just a stupid LITTLE spider.
You are too much! Duct tape works everytime
How big was this lizard? And no I don’t believe it was Godzilla.
I had a tiny one in my home, my daughter caught it and kept it in a cage for a while, until I told her to let it lose in my garden. I think its still there. I keep seeing one scampering away across the top of the fence.
Janice~
Funny story, Kissa. Love DH’s reaction. Classic. No lizards in New Hampshire, but a bat came in through the bedroom fireplace once. The cats had a blast chasing it but I didn’t stop shaking until the animal control officer took it away in a big net.
I want to write something clever but I’m laughing too hard…GMAO…
Kissa, I had your lizard’s cousin in my backyard last week–a seven and a half foot alligator. Now, THAT”S A BIG lizard. Not unusual for me as I live surrounded by a swamp.
Sylvia
Honoria- yeah, I told my DH that I’m a girl and it states in the marriage contract that HE will kill the spiders.
Mahalia- gotta love duct tape!
Janice- who’s account are you going to believe? I think it was around 5-6 inches. According to the hubby it was a baby- so small he couldn’t see it! Yeah right.
Pat- a bat? Came in your bedroom? I’d have to move!
Shirin- glad to give you a laugh. I’m laughing too- NOW. haha
Sylvia- WOW. Did your DH catch him? haha I’ve come across those in Jekyll Island while riding bikes. I don’t mind any creature outside. But inside the house, that’s my area.
Thanks so much to all who dropped by!
Moving this from another thread where it got lost:
Rochelle Weber said,
May 28th, 2009 at 7:59 pm e
That reminds me of when a rat got into my house in Hawaii while my husband was at sea. I ran next door to get a neighbor to help. Her husband wasn’t home, either. We crept back into my house and when we saw the thing again, we both jumped up onto the coffee table. I looked at her and said, “You’re lots of help.” She said, “At least you’re not up here looking silly by yourself.”
Fortunately, DH was out on “weekly ops” where they went out on Monday and came back on Friday. So, I put down a trap and the thing stayed there once it was caught until the submarine got back and DH was home to remove it. (It was only one or two days.)
Haha Rochelle, glad I’m not the only one who doesn’t like creatures in the house. The other day my DH and I saw a lizard outside and he tried to scare me with it. He doesn’t get the fact that I’m okay with them OUTSIDE.