Thu
23
Oct
2008
A Mystery Guest in the Kitchen
The other day, Katie and I walked back to her place after eating noodles or rice or something, and as she entered her kitchen to open the fridge I saw something odd in the corner of my eye. This can't be real, I thought to myself... I told Katie that I saw some kind of creature scurry underneath the refrigerator. We then tried to scare it outta there by moving the fridge until a lizard (???) ran out into the rest of the kitchen! I chased it with a box and a broom, hoping to corner it. I did corner it, so it ran up the walls instead. This thing ran fast. It ran up on to the ceiling, too. At that moment our friend Joe had arrived and together we used the broom to brush the lizard so that it fell down into the cardboard box that my vacuum cleaner came in. We closed the box and waited for Ashley to come (we all had a movie night scheduled for that night, since we've become hooked on The Sopranos) and Katie and I gave it to Ashley as a present. She didn't really like it... anyway, we later determined that our new neighbor is called a House Gecko (what a creative name!!) and that it is useful for catching bugs. I, however, do not want any lizards crawling around on my ceilings while I sleep at night, thank you.
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I'm saddened you don't want any lizards crawling around...but i guess I would feel the same way with any other random creature invading my space. Did you at least take a picture of it? Was it a common House Gecko, or a Tropical House Gecko or a flat tailed House Gecko? :) They are tiny little things aren't they? Anyway, keep writing as I am living vicariously through you right now...

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