Today, I learned that scorpions can apparently hold their breath for hours, and that doing so makes them angry. I found this out when I removed a scorpion from the bottom of my pool and found that it was not entirely drowned. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I was brushing my teeth when I looked up. There was a huge scorpion dangling on the air vent above my head. I was trapped in the bathroom for over an hour trying to build the courage to run out. FML
Today, I stepped on a glue trap for scorpions. Bare foot. There was a scorpion already caught on it. It wasn't dead. FML
Today, I learned that I'm allergic to hornets. I also learned that when your mom sprays a hornets' nest, and they come after you, that jumping in the pool doesn't help. They hover and wait for you to surface. FML
Today, my roommate informed me that one of her scorpions is loose in our apartment again. Great. FML
Today, I saw a scorpion crawling across the kitchen floor. While trying to swat it towards the middle of the floor to prevent it from escaping as I looked for something to kill it with, my cat came to investigate. Kitty thought I was playing with a new toy and joined in by batting the scorpion under the oven. I know it's plotting its revenge. FML
Today, I tried to blink out a small speck of dirt that was caught in my eye. Instead, I learned what it feels like to suffocate a small, angry spider with your eyelid. FML
Today, I broke a glass case containing my pet scorpions. I still can't find them. FML
Today, a water snake slithered into our pool. He can have it. FML
Today, I went to the beach. My friend decided it would be funny to push me into a bunch of Portuguese Man-O-War jellyfish washed up on the shore. Did you know their tentacles can sting even if they’re dead? FML
Today, I found the same spider which I had let live yesterday hidden in my bath towel. I didn't find it until it was smeared on my face. FML
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JustKittyKat 24
Did he survive? And how do you know he was there for hours? I am very curious about this one.
Moep20 24
Why would anyone put a scorpion into a cup of bleach?!?!?
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Comments (112)
jellycorn 13
Horcruxes. Even scorpions make them.
dianey 1
Scorpions can hold their breaths up to 6 days!
PhishloverA 14
Did it do a belly flop or a cannonball?
Enslaved 38
Did you "follow the Moskva Down to Gorky Park Listening to the wind of change"?
thrAsHeRr9081 16
That bass. Awesome.
MackenzieAnne12 0
My family found that out after we moved into our current house. And living right by a mountain in AZ makes you realize how amazing, and scary they really are. They can fit through the teeniest cracks.
stormchaser24 24
So did you use a skimmer to get it and then pick it up or what?
glucas1994 4
O
ben827 10
That's when you kill it with fire.
cjjg12 2
Iv been there before when I lived phx az I thought it was dead till I brought the net out and it chased me lol
joethebiden 8
Fire works. Also shotgun blasts.