Remember Michael on The Office going no. No. NO. NO. NO. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. yeah. That's us.

[moonvoice]

I was going to talk about how much I love nature.

I was really going to talk about how much I love nature.

AND THEN I FOUND A LIVE FUCKING SCORPION IN MY STUDY (or Maybe found it and then was rapidly grabbed and put away before she could hurt herself, which is what she clearly wanted to do) AND I CHANGED MY FUCKING MIND.


The SCORPION OF DOOM




I was going to be all like, hey I saw a western brush wallaby in the bushland today and it stared at us for ages and it was all magical and crap.

But then I changed my mind. Glen's all like 'I didn't know we had scorpions in Perth!' and I'm like 'I did, I didn't know we had them IN OUR HOUSE.'

We are now discussing the merits of moving anywhere but here. (I actually prefer close encounters with snakes over scorpions, but that's because snakes can't grab you with two pincers before stabbing the crap out of you.)

(Anyone concerned with the welfare of the scorpion should know that we 'rehomed it' in some bushland far far far away. FAR AWAY.)

(x-posted to Wordpress. Eventually.)

Comments

[moonvoice]

It was 6 centimetres in length with its tail curled up, probably longer with the tail straightened. Not sure what that is in inches though (I'm not sure if you're metric or inches over in France!)

It wasn't hard to spot. Maybe was going crazy behind me, I turned around in my study chair and said 'what have you got!' saw that it was big (being enough to not be the normal crickets that she goes for), saw that it was a scorpion and then... yeah. It was that easy to spot.

[nicanthiel]

Very roughly, 6 cm would be about 2 inches, give or take a couple of inch-fractions.

Also, eeeaghisghakngkasvladkmv. I wouldn't be able to sleep for a week either. Glad to hear Maybe didn't get hurt.

[moonvoice]

2.36 inches, according to the master that is Google (the scary, scary master that is Google). But that just sounds tiny to me.

Yeek.

[feralkiss]

>_> Metric. The inches, pounds and whatnot system is total non-sense to us French-people. I had noticed before that you use the metric system too and AM SO GLAD OF IT!

I'm glad you found it in that situation and not... like. Wasn't it you who mentioned finding horrible spiders in your BED? I remember also finding out a big spider in my towel after going out of the shower and that's not the kind of surprises I enjoy. Much.

[moonvoice]

Yeah, in the old place, redback spiders in my bed. That was bad. For two weeks it seemed like redbacks and whitetails were everywhere.

And a big spider on a towel? Eeeeerk. *shudder*