The Huge thing.....

This was quit the weekend and it all started Friday, late morning.  I had been preparing to plant my fall & winter garden, so off to A&P nursery to buy my bedding plants.  (they have a great selection) I pick out all I need and get them paid for.  We are loading them into the back of my PT and I look down and see one HUGE scorpion.  I am not kidding it was way toooooo big for my comfort level.  The girl who was helping me went to get a pair of gloves so she could pick the thing up?  What was she thinking?  (I'm thinking stomp on the thing), Anyway she comes back with her trusty gloves moves the box and the thing runs under the back seat of my car.  I am by this time doing my best to be calm. (I really do not like scorpions) We begin to tear apart my car, we have no luck finding this huge thing anywhere. She then begins to tell me how it is more scared of me than I am of it, (I don't even know where to begin to tell her that there is no possible way that is true), that it wont live for too long because it needs bugs to survive, this is in no way making me feel any better.  I get into my car for the very long drive home wondering just when this thing is going to show its self, (I am a whimp).  I call David for reassurance and his phone lines are busy the first time a round.  I finally get through to him and  our conversation went something like this: 

David: hi hon how are you?

Me: not very well (in a very shakey voice)

David: what is wrong?

Me: there is a scorpion on the loose in our car

David: a what? how did it get there?

Me: ( refer to the above story)

David: laughing.......

Me: are you laughing at me?

David: yes, I'm sorry 

Me: no your not

David: it is pretty funning when you think about it.

Me: I'm thinking about it and do not find this funny, I do not want to be lunch for this thing.

David: Hon it is smaller than you

Me: as if that makes any difference

David: are you going to be ok?

Me: do I have a choice, I can't walk home it is too far.

I then call Tyler, he has lived with the things before in his home.  He ask the same questions as his father.  He then asks the color of the thing I tell him and he gets quite,( this is not a good sign), I ask if that is a bad thing and he says not too bad.  I am going to be lunch is all I can think.

I park my car outside of the garage (do not want the thing in my home if I can help it) I take everything out so it has not additional hiding places and begin the wait for David to get home.

He was home a little after 5:00 pm and off he went on a scorpion hunt so he could rescue me. He is looking in the very back first and I tell him where I last saw the thing, he then starts to look in the back seats and I go and open up the passenger door behind the driver and there the HUGE thing is, it was right behind me all the way.... to say I screamed a bit loudly is putting it mildly.  Poor David about had a heart attack just from my scream.  He then came and stomped on the HUGE thing and disposed of it in the trash. He is my HERO. My garden is now planted and we are anticipating a good crop this fall.