Squeamish!

Other than running about 10 mins late in my morning routine to head out the door to work--- some days a gal just doesn't want to get up !-- - my day was running along as normal. I arrived and got busy doing the things I usually do to get my work day set up and started. Puttering along, back and forth as I organized, moved, finalized things to load onto my truck; I dashed back to the desk, intending to check my email and looked down and whoa WTF is that? I shuddered, then shivered as I realized what it was: a scorpion! First time I've seen one since I moved to Arizona. They really are creepy looking creatures. And um, excuse me but no way was I going to try and deal with it. So I wandered around looking for someone who isn't quite so squeamish --- and Angelique came to my rescue. "They don't bother me" she tells me as she walked into my area, armed with a bottle of lotion. (Um, what? A bottle of lotion???)

Sure enough, she walked up to this foot long oversized lethal creature, and pushed aside the keyboard it was attempting to hide under. (ok, so it was probably more like 2inches long) It curled its foot long tail up and over its body, (ok ok, I know, it wasn't really that big!) and in one swift movement, SPLAT, she squirted a blob of lotion on this prehistoric looking thing. And shock registered on my face, because it made that creature virtually helpless to move. She scooped it into a cardboard box with a plastic cup and crushed it before tossing it into the trash.

After thinking about it for an hour, I realized that was a really great way to deal with the critter. And now I wonder if I shouldn't keep a bottle of lotion on hand for that (scorpions are all over here in the desert) -- I wonder if they would work on the sewer roaches we get here as well?? I think I'll give it a shot the next time I encounter one.

Angelique: You're my hero!!!

PS: It took me about an hour before I was brave enough to put on gloves and wipe down the desk top in case IT left anything behind. It took me another hour before I would actually sit down and try to WORK at my desk! Later this afternoon, I swept and swabbed the entire floor in my area. A Gal can never be too careful!! hehehehe