How to kill a scorpion

[aslant]

It's just after dawn and you're sitting down to a cup of coffee and breakfast sausages. Your daughter, hands sticky with maple syrup from her microwave waffle, has to go wash her hands and go pee. She leaves the door open and is telling you about how she needs more toilet paper. Everything is normal, until she screams, piercingly. Everything is

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[withoutinternet]

o_O

Are there people that are nonchalant about scorpions?

[aslant]

I don't know. My father in law? But he's nonchalant about everything. I might not be so crazy about them if Penny didn't scream like she was dying each time. Also this was the second one in two days in that bathroom. Time for poison. Time for fire.

[debok]

Oh, shit. I have no idea what a sand scorpion looks like, and now I'm dying/dreading to go google images of them...

[aslant]

Yeah, don't! They're small and not as poisonous as some. Sand scorpions are more like cockroaches I guess, not that big but still disgusting and fear-inducing (for us). I am crazy paranoid but at some point you just have to roll with it because they're nearly impossible to avoid. There's no foolproof way to seal the house or whatever.

[debok]

Spooky! We have black widow spiders out here. In fact, there's a room in our basement that the boys refer to as "the spider room." LOL.

[duchess_k]

Omfg.

[witch_kat]

So awful! It's getting to centipede season here and I'm already getting anxious about the first time I walk into the room and find one there... and they can't hurt me unlike a scorpion! I'm good with pretty much any other insect but they make me completely lose it... you are SO brave to kill it :)