I believe one of mine and Brad's biggest fears of owning a home is what we will do when faced with infestation. Whether it is a large insect, mouse, or some other frightening creature, its only goal in life is to terrorize little children living in the basement (and getting great joy out of this for many years). My biggest nightmare came true, when I received a phone call from Stacy who frantically tells me that there a scorpion in our house. My initial response was to not return home, but later I conjured up enough courage to go home and face it. Stacy had bravely trapped the varmint underneath a glass bowl and left it there for the patriarch of the home to take care of it. I had little indication of what I was to expect upon arrival, but was terrified to see the size of this deadly insect. Below is a picture and it does not do justice for the utter terror that the scorpion inculcates into anyone that looks at it. Scorpions are creatures that kids take to school for show-and-tell-day and impresses all of his friends because he has a scorpion. Well, I left it there for a couple of hours and refused to have anything to do with it. Stacy and I finally decided to tag team it and we slipped cardboard under the glass bowl so that we could transport it to the toilet to flush it down. I don't remember what happened after that but next thing I knew Stacy grabbed the bowl and shook it over the toilet and I flushed it down several times. I don't know what drives me to take such chances. It was exciting and scary at the same time. I do need to admit that Stacy was the stronger of the two in our house, but she did not have the traumatic experiences that I had as a young boy with mice.
