He May Be Cute On TV….

Posted on 07.09.07 in Family and there are 20 comments.

It was 11:35pm. Monday.

Jimmy was already asleep in the other room.

I saw one of these run across my living room floor.

Did I:

• A. Go all Mama Bear on it, grab it in my hand and throw in into the backyard while yelling, “Don’t you even think about coming near my babies!”
• B. Go back to my blog reading.
• C. Wake up Jimmy and ask him to capture the big, bad, baby gecko.

What do you think?

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I’m putting my money on A.  Digging the new design and layout, btw.

I opt for waking the husband (or my oldest son if Buck’s not home) EVERYTIME.  This momma bear runs!

C. Oh yeah, definitely C.  Poor men never get sleep when critters git in the house.

I bet B.

Because of the old trees in our yard and the lack of water, we have had a problem with roaches this year.  I hate hate hate roaches.  I found one dead - as in, on his back, multiple feet in the air - in our foyer a few days ago.  But when I tried to clean him up, he sprang back to life and crawled on my hand.  This is the absolute worst thing that can happen to me in the realm of bugs.  So I killed him DEAD with a shoe, then I beat him with it again, just to be sure.  THEN I left the shoe sitting on the dead roach until Brian could come home and clean him up. 

But a gecco - they’re cute, right?  They drink coffee and talk in an Australian accent about car insurance.  So at most, you just had to endure his sales pitch.

I think the answer is B, too.  (I think, THINK, that’s what I would have done...)

I’ll say C. That seems like a normal girly response. But I don’t know, Kat. You seem like a tougher-than-normal girl.

I just can’t see Kat A.) yelling at a gecko, or C.) calling a baby ...anything… bad. 

A.) does make for a funny visual, though. 

FACT: I killed a scorpion in my living room by myself month or so ago.

FACT: I girlishly asked Jimmy to pick it up and throw it away.

...just thought I’d confuse you all a bit before I reveal the answer later this afternoon.

Anyone want to change their answer?

Still...scorpions are different than geckos.  To me, scorpions are bugs and could be harmful, while geckos are animals and kinda cute, and I don’t THINK they’re harmful. (Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong.)

I’m not changing my answer...still going with B.

Geccos are going to be like mice or other lizards - killing them is a bit more of an ordeal than killing a bug.  Yech.

I’m sticking with C.  Geckos may be cute, but when they drop their tail, which then sits there wriggling and flopping like a fish out of water, that is different from bugs.

Mrs. E asks me not to kill the geckos - they’re too good for the ecosystem.  So I just toss them outside.

Drop their tail?  What is that?  They just randomly lose their tails?  yikes!

You bet they drop their tails.  Read here for a good description.  It is a defense mechanism, with the tail looking alive and hopefully distracting the predator to eat the tail while the gecko escapes.  It will then regrow the tail in a short period of time.

I’m going with B. it’s not a serpent, spider or anything really gross. besides they eat the bad bugs =)

That’s so cool!  Thanks for the link euphrony.  Am I reading this right?  They can only lose their tail one time, because the new one doesn’t have fracture planes?

I guess you can tell geckos don’t live where I do…

you know what is really creepy? true story: i was about 10 years old living in Indonesia. thatched hut, dirt floor, wooden walls.  i walk to my room, and see these beady large eyes staring at me from under my bed (in broad daylight). I run like the wind, and refuse to return to my room because what I have just seen was a large lizard that is called a gibang in Indonesia.  I believe it is something like a monitor lizard. I just looked it up, and I’m totally creeped out. For some creeping out click here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monitor_lizard
eewgh.
so geckos, no problem. we can be friends. tail or no tail =)

did i mention that it was at least 3 feet if not 4 feet long. shudder.

Kat darling - shall I end this game of yours and tell gecko lovers everywhere that the gecko is still lurking in the corners of our house.  I am sure I will find fragments of it’s skeletal remains on a window sill a few months from now.  However, I don’t blame you....house living is a good life for a gecko if it can keep from getting squished and find a little gecko food.  All things considered, I can understand why they take the risk.  We often have gecko’s in our house, so the gecko community probably knows me as the non-gecko-squishing type and feels that they can walk across my living room with impunity.  Also, I believe the gecko scouting report on me is that I often grab the tail, so escape is a real possibility.  But I am getting faster and more agile and working out, so I look forward to the next opportunity.  The next gecko I see will get the cup of my hand and an escort out the front door.

Yes dear. Aren’t you glad I didn’t wake you up? I must admit though, that searching the internet for a good gecko picture REALLY gave me the creepy crawlies knowing that the little critter was still somewhere in my living room. There are some really gross gecko pictures on the internet…

I must say that I’m impressed with both Stephanie, Lorijo and Christy. You all stuck to your guns even when I tried to lead you astray.

And C-Hammer, you get an honorary A+ for saying that I seem like a tougher than normal girl.

Why did I let it stay? Well, I wasn’t about to wake Jimmy up for a little old gecko. I don’t mink catching them with my hands and sending them outside, but it had already run into the back corner behind the recliner and I didn’t see much hope in catching it without having to rearrange all the furniture…

I’ll know who in our Small Group (called Lifegroup at our church) read this blog by how much they’re squirming during Lifegroup.

So the real reason for this post is revealed:: yiu just wanted to out your nameless local readers!

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