The Legend of a Blustery Day, A Lizard, and A Toilet!

October 19, 2011

The Legend of a Blustery Day, A Lizard, and a Toilet!

It all began on very blustery day in Houston, Texas.  There are not to many of these kinds of days in Houston. After checking for smoke from forest fires, and seeing the allergy report, we decided to throw caution to the wind and so we opened up the house.  Now, opening up the house means that we have to leave the doors open because most of the windows in our house do not open.  There is just one tiny problem with opening up the doors.....in Houston, the builders who build all these big fancy, expensive homes DO NOT believe in screen doors!

Now usually when we open the doors, we post a guard near the door to watch for the little creep crawly things that like to walk in just as big as you please.  I secretly think that they think an open door is an open invitation to visit!  However, there are times when the guard leaves their post in order to do things like get a drink, use the restroom, eat dinner, talk to someone, or the constant change the laundry routine.

Well, at some point during our blissfull, blustery day, a creepy crawly little orange baby lizard decides to invade the territory.  He went unnoticed....probably came in during a potty break for the guard!  If he did come in unnoticed, he must be very good at hiding because we hadn't seen the little critter until he decided to put in an appearance in the front bathroom.  And the bathroom is several steps from the front door.

Now, if I was a lizard, I am not sure I would go find the bathroom.  I would probably be thinking that the bathroom was a room that would have fairly frequent visitors, and knowing how humans are usually not very friendly to lizards in houses, I would avoid that room...I'm just saying!

However, our little lizard must have been curious because he decided to go to the bathroom.  Now there are all kinds of exciting things lurking in our front bathroom.  There's the cabinet with the bandaids, the rolling drawers....which have also been used to roll over and KILL creepy crawly things....the pedestal sink, the toilet, and the shower stall.  Since the shower stall has a big glass door, our tiny lizard must have decided that he was never going to manage to open the door.  Inside the shower is the water home storage.....good place to store it right....it's been known to leak!  Also in there are the vaporizors!  Probably not a real good place for a lizard to explore.

Who actually knows what the little lizard found to explore in the bathroom, but somehow he got himself up on the toilet seat.  BIG MISTAKE!!!  This big tall human named Cymbre came into the bathroom, saw the lizard, and was prepared to scream.  However, instead of screaming, she did the "old flip and flush" routine on the poor little guy.  She just flipped him into the toilet and flushed!  Hope he said his prayers...hope he said goodbye to his mom before he left this morning....hope he's not a very good swimmer....hope he can't swim back upstream and attack when someone is least expecting him!

Well, after a few minutes Cymbre goes back into the bathroom....and there before her very eyes is the little lizard sitting in the toilet bowl.  Now she says "Another installment for the blog"  and promptly flushes him again.   This time he has been flushed several times!  And every time she walks by, she flushes him again.....poor thing....just recovers from one wave and another one hits.  Kind of like a Tsunami I would imagine!

Has he not heard that all drains lead to the ocean....does he not want to be Nemo's friend, and meet the sea turtles?   Maybe he forgot his lunch.....or has to go home to finish his homework!  TOO BAD little lizard.....you are learning how to swim today.....flush again.....maybe he just needed to go potty!   TOO BAD...do your business outside!  HAHAHAHAHAHA........

And the moral of this legend.....watch out for the "flip and flush" or humans are not friendly people, or Flanagan's HATE lizards in the bathroom....you can pick whichever moral you want!  Bottom line.....now we are guarding the toilet to make sure he doesn't put in another appearance!  Should have just smashed him to start with....in the future, there will be no compassion!  LIZARDS be forwarned.....invasion into the Flanagan home is life threatening!