I am sure most of you wouldn’t be in a comfortable position if you had to co-exist with reptiles in your house. I’m not comfortable as well. In addition to this already-existing discomfort, a recent incident has pushed the tolerance levels further down to an all-time low! I just thought I’ll write about it here. Being the noble guy that I am, I don’t want such an incident happening to any of you.
I was searching for this book called ”Made in Japan”. It’s about Akio Morita, the founder of Sony. I couldn’t find it in my living room. I had to go into my bedroom to retrieve it. There was no light switched on in that bedroom. I, unsuspectingly, switched on the tubelight and as usual would take ages to light up. I took a couple of steps forward and felt something unusual rubbing against my right foot thumb. I just nudged it a bit thinking it was some random thing inside the room. Suddenly, the light went on and I saw a lizard running across the room from my direction to that opposite of me. I was shell shocked! I ran into the bathroom and washed my feet and hands with any kind of cleaning liquid that was inside (except the cleaning acid types). Man! It was a terrible experience!
Yours Skeptically,
uleadin
P.S. If at all you feel something strange next to your feet, don’t ever nudge it!
Ya, I have been seeing a too many toads inside my house of late. I wonder how they come in, even though the house is full protected with nets and all…
@ PSP,
What has nets got to do with toads?
Seems like you are day-dreaming about you catching a glimpse of your mamiyar tomo!
@PSP:
What have toads got to do with nets? You put nets close to the floor?
@Narain:
‘glimpse of mamiyar tomorrow’ ? what does that mean? Mamiyar? He has a steady girlfriend? I thought he has a few females on his ’sight-list’!
Well… why scared of lizzies? I’ve lived with a snake in my village :p
Oh.. and your post alignment sucks. What happened?
@PSP
His house is full of nets to trap girls entering. Nothing more!
@PSP
That should read “your” instead of “his”
@ uleadin
well here is a funny incident i had experienced, there was a lizard on the wall in my room and it was making this silly noise. i was sitting on my bed and decided to mock on the lizard and made the same noise it had, the lizard took no time in reacting. the lizard took a nose dive on me, it landed right on my lap. me being the fishy guy jumped in shock and bloody i couldnt sleep that night.
for more on the mamiyar story check this link
http://sathyanarain.com/?p=84
@above – Hmmm, nice marketing for Sathya! Does he pay you a part of his salary?
At the back of a tamil calendar, you have predictions for what all will happen if a lizard falls on a specific part of ur body. One day I was studying for my exams and sitting on the sofa below the tubelight. [bakc in 8th std]. I heard a soft plunk, as something fell on my lap. I moved my book and much to my disgust, yes, it was a palli. The calendar also declared ‘Maranamm’ for this case. But guess who is back from the dead?
@Praveen:
Nobody has to pay us for anti-PSP talk da
@Teal:
Y-U-C-K! ’soft plunk’ aaaaaargh!
gosh… boss, i dont think there wud b some1 more afraid of lizards than me…
if i c 1 somewhere in the bathroom, i dont go in… even if its sumthin reaaal urgent
@ PSP
we enjoy trashing u buddy….
@Ajeesh:
I’m almost like you. depends on the degree of urgency
for me it just depends on the sheer presence of Liz…
i fear He may take some strange step n fall down…
n that wud mean YYYYYYYYY
UUUUUU
CCC
KK
i never thot i wud b discussin sumthin like this on a blogg…
wat do a call fear of lizards, btw?
@Ajeesh:
hmmmmm…but then for me the urgency comes first in any case
fear of lizards is either Batrachophobia or Herpetophobia. no official answer on it
Lizards are harmless. They are almost adorable. We have a whole horde of it. I have tracked a few of my favourite ones growing too. I think they live a couple of years, though I am not sure. After a few contacts, one is not bothered about it touching one’s foot more than one bothers about mosquitoes sitting on them.
My house has a mini-ecosystem too. The lizard eats mosquitoes and the mosquitoes drink human blood! So the lizard actually survives on our blood! We humans of course derive our nutrition from food products.
Never chase a lizard because it will abandon its tail after sometime leaving you to dispose a body-part that will start decomposing soon. A lizard quickly learns to avoid being trampled, and all adult lizards die only in the open. It is only the really young lizards that cause problems.
One will never appreciate the meaning of a cold-blooded creature unless it climbs up on your leg or something. Its belly feels awesomely cold!
One can play with a lizard too. Sit absolutely still in a room, with no other disturbances. Leave some food scraps on the floor. When a lizard comes out, lob a small crumpled up piece of paper somewhere near it without making too much movement. If your lizard is among the brave ones, it’ll sniff out the new piece of paper rather than scamper. Now keep tossing more pieces of paper at it. Amuse yourself. The lizard is really dumb.
@Sundar:
ugh!
sundar i guess u r capable enuf 2 write a blog on Lizardsssss….
so wen do v see one?
We don’t see blogs about lizards. Only comments in Prashanth’s.