Fear Factor

Whenever I watch fear factor, I always imagine myself as a contestant, and my brain then starts devising challenges for myself. And every single time, the same challenge appears in my mind...A huge tank filled with lizards and my legs cuffed to the bottom of the tank. There are 5 keys hung on the inside wall of the tank and I am supposed to use my mouth to grab the keys, one at a time, to try to unlock the chains on my legs! And getting to the keys involve using my mouth to push away the lizards! ARRGH!!

So yes, as you can tell, I have an immense fear for lizards! That slimy body, those beady eyes, the long tail...whenever I see a lizard, I freeze, regardless how far away from me it is. So just imagine my reaction when I came into my study last night, reached out my finger for the CPU switch, and there they were, those familar beady eyes staring right at me! I let out a shrill scream, then covered my mouth as I did not want to scare the creature. (the worse thing about having a lizard in your room is having a lizard that you can't see in your room!)

I ran out to grab my trusty Baygon (which has protected me well from a few other bugs) and I started spraying at the lizard. I sprayed and I sprayed and I sprayed some more. After some struggles, the lizard stopped moving. I sprayed more. I had sprayed so much Baygon that my parquet floor was flooding with insecticide. And then I sprayed some more! The lizard did not move an inch. Neither did I. I stared at its beady eyes for 30 seconds. Then I sprayed some more! This time, it jumped and started to run away again. I chased it with sprays of Baygon till there was hardly any Baygon left in the cannister and I was choking from the fumes!

I evacuated the room, pulled the door shut, and sealed the bottom of door with a rag (in case the lizard escape out of the room). I decided that I would not enter the room till Colin comes back from his business trip next Saturday. However, just now, I realised I had to enter the room coz my phone charger is in the room. I opened the door carefully, scanned the floor for the lizard, and there it was, dead as can be! Hooray! The triumphant feeling of killing the lizard was WAY better than winning the 50 grand from Fear Factor!

Having said that, I'm still gonna leave the carcass till next Saturday when Colin can come clear it. No way am I gonna go anywhere near that lizard. Dead or alive!