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San Antonio bites. Literally.
Sure, I’ve been annoyed this summer by the black beetles that have decided my Waco apartment is the new hip place to hang out. But at least they’re slow, harmless and easy to kill. The creepy crawly things in San Antonio are anything but.
What’s the saying? Just because I’m paranoid doesn’t mean there aren’t people after me. Yeah, well, here at my Dad’s in Garden Ridge it’s more like, just because I haven’t seen a live scorpion in a couple of years doesn’t mean there’s not one hiding in my shoe, ready to sting my toe until it falls off.
My dad and my stepmom have been stung so many times, I honestly think they’re 5 percent scorpion at this point. I’ve never been stung, but that’s not to say I haven’t had my share of near misses. There was the time in sixth grade that I killed a scorpion, death by pouring a mound of Comet cleaner on it. Another time, one fell from the bathroom ceiling into the sink as I was brushing my teeth. Yet another time, one of the small but venomous brutes fell from the bathroom ceiling onto my leg.
Every night I check my pillowcases and sheets before crawling in bed. I check the toilet and my shoes in the morning. I’ve been here only a couple of days, but I’m beginning to miss my friendly little black beetles in Waco.
Comments
By Gen. Houston
July 14, 2008 10:09 AM | Link to this
Little boogers are harder to get rid of than 4000 Mexican troops.
I’ve been hit by a scorpion tail. Crawled up my pants leg and got me 5 or 6 times before I could shake the thing out. I’d like to have the video, but it was back when video cameras were the size of a family suitcase, and the cost would’ve paid for little Billy’s surgery.
By Jenny
July 14, 2008 10:17 AM | Link to this
Every time I put on my “yard shoes” to walk the dogs every morning, there’s always this split second thought as a slide my foot into them that there could be a black widow spider inside there waiting to pounce on my big toe. I don’t know what I would I would do if I had to worry about scorpions in SC. I think I would still be catatonic if one had dropped from the bathroom ceiling while I was brushing my teeth. EEEEW!
By poopsandwich
July 14, 2008 5:04 PM | Link to this
When i was in hgh school, I would lay my clothes out the night before so i could sleep until the latest possible moment.
And more than once I got stung on the knee when pulling up my skin tight wranglers.
By Don
July 15, 2008 5:47 AM | Link to this
I rented a house in Rosethal several years back. Although country-type living was OK, the house was on sandy loam which scorpions love. I got up in the middle of night to go to the bathroom. I was very careful where I stepped because the evil little critters would come out at night and rest in the middle of the floor. As I stepped around a corner in the dark I felt something hit the bottom of my foot. When I turned the light on, where was a scorpion right where I had stepped. I guess I surprised it as much as it suprised me, because I didn’t get stung. Talk about luck! From then on, I had all the lights on at night so I could see where I was walking.
By Jodi (BSB)
July 15, 2008 12:37 PM | Link to this
When I lived in Crawford our house was apparently on some kind of scorpion migratory path. My dad killed a hundred scorpions one year. We counted. We couldn’t even sit on our living room floor. I would see them run across my ceiling at night sometimes and I’d sleep with my covers pulled over my head. Amazingly, no one in my family got stung the entire three years we lived there. But we were VERY vigilant and also VERY lucky!
By Ned
July 15, 2008 2:18 PM | Link to this
When I was a lad, my younger brother FRED was stung numerous times by scorpions. The doctors said the venom could leave a person bitter and possibly retarded. I haven’t seen him in years, but he used to drive around downtown Waco scowling and cursing.
By Fred
July 16, 2008 6:51 AM | Link to this
I was bitten by a gray-headed scorpion once. Since then I have stayed away from Waco Mayor Virginia DuPuy. Ouch!
By MyOwnWingman
July 17, 2008 2:38 PM | Link to this
I don’t know why the scorpions have not stung you, I do know that given the slightest opening I would.
By Buzz Aldrin
July 18, 2008 12:34 AM | Link to this
I was out at the pool earlier, doing a little skinny dipping, and when I got out and sat in one of the poolside chairs, a scorpion stung me right on the Fred. How am I going to explain THIS one to my wife?
By Fred
July 19, 2008 8:19 PM | Link to this
There is a great big scorpion about to sting the Greater Waco Chamber of Idiots……her name is Margaret Mills. Vaughn and his sleeze-bags are sweating bullets for sure. If Mz. Mills does not get probation then she will “sing like a Canary” to save her own hide.
By Don't sweat it
July 20, 2008 10:06 PM | Link to this
I used to live in the hill country and have been stung by scorpions a few times. Not pleasant, but nothing to worry about. It’s really not that bad.