Comments on: “Tail” of the Unwelcome Visitor

By: Jolana Malkston

Jolana Malkston — Thu, 14 Nov 2013 20:41:09 +0000

Thanks, Lucy. When I finish the SF Romance novel I’m currently writing, I’ll pick up where I left off on a dark-comic romantic suspense manuscript,

My sister and I both share a quirky sense of humor. You should see some of our emails and text messages. 🙂 Our dad was a very funny guy. I guess she and I inherited our sense of humor from Dad, and we certainly passed his humor on to our sons. Some of their Facebook posts are hilarious. I keep telling my younger son he should write a topical humor blog. He keeps us all in stitches with his comical rants about everyday life. 🙂

By: Lucy Kubash

Lucy Kubash — Thu, 14 Nov 2013 16:18:05 +0000

You should definitely be writing comedy! I’m sure it wasn’t funny at the time (as was not the time I stepped barefoot on a huge spider in my house–thank god don’t live there anymore) but looking back you’ve given it a very funny twist. Funny horror maybe?
Enjoyed the post.

By: Jolana Malkston

Jolana Malkston — Thu, 14 Nov 2013 04:53:34 +0000

Wow, that was scary, Margo. You were lucky you weren’t alone when that scorpion came out to play, and lucky your macho man had such good aim. 🙂

You just gave me something scary to think about that I didn’t think about at the time. We were in that motel room for three days before the scorpion surfaced. I never considered that it might already have been in the room before we checked in. I guess I was still getting over the shock and my mind didn’t want to go there. Frankly, it doesn’t want to go there now either or I’ll start having nightmares again. 🙁

By: Jolana Malkston

Jolana Malkston — Thu, 14 Nov 2013 04:40:20 +0000

I don’t know how I get to have “all the fun.” Out of all the motels in Branson, the scorpion decides to invade the one where our class reunion group was staying. There were about 50 of us in the reunion group plus the other guests at the motel. Out of everyone staying in the motel, to whom does the scorpion choose to pay an unwanted visit? Me, of course. I’m convinced that I’m a mishap magnet.

By: Jolana Malkston

Jolana Malkston — Thu, 14 Nov 2013 04:25:45 +0000

I doubt that scorpions are indigenous to Missouri. The desk clerk at the motel may have been right when she told me the scorpion that invaded my room was probably a hitchhiker from the Southwest.

I don’t know about being brave. I really didn’t have much choice. I had to remain conscious or else. 🙂 The incident took on a whole new meaning for me when I mentioned it at an MMRWA meeting a few years ago. One of the members said the small white scorpions like the one in my motel room are deadlier than the larger dark scorpions that we usually see in nature films. I got goosebumps all over again. =:-0

By: Jolana Malkston

Jolana Malkston — Thu, 14 Nov 2013 03:43:07 +0000

Spiders and snakes and scorpions, oh my! The man of the house is always somewhere else when the creepy crawlies invade. Isn’t that always the way?

I had no idea there were scorpions in Missouri either. The desk clerk at the motel told me they found a few scorpions before. They believed the scorpions hitchhiked in the autos and baggage belonging to visitors from the southwestern US. I gave her the benefit of the doubt, but I just couldn’t picture myself packing a suitcase and not noticing a scorpion in it. ::shudder::

By: Margo Hoornstra

Margo Hoornstra — Thu, 14 Nov 2013 03:11:30 +0000

Have all the fun. Funny, Diane. We lived in Texas and Arizona for a year while Ron was in the Army. After about a month in our apartment, one day a big, bad, tail lifted scorpion casually walked out from under our bed and into the living room. Have no idea how long it had been there. My macho man stood on a chair (I was standing on the couch) and heaved his big boot at it. Direct hit! Can’t remember who cleaned it up. Makes me shudder now even thinking about it.

By: Diane Burton

Diane Burton — Wed, 13 Nov 2013 22:44:31 +0000

I lived in MO for 6 yrs and never saw a scorpion. How did you get to have all the fun???

By: Melissa Keir

Melissa Keir — Wed, 13 Nov 2013 20:34:26 +0000

Okay… I’m scared now of ever going to Missouri. Who thinks of scorpions there!! Yes, New Mexico, hot dry places, deserts… Not places that get cold and freezing. Guess I’ll just forget that vacation destination.

You truly are a brave woman. I would have lost it majorly and given the hotel a piece of my mind. Congrats on being a survivor. 🙂

By: Kristen

Kristen — Wed, 13 Nov 2013 13:46:03 +0000

Scorpions? In Missouri?! I had no idea I was taking my life in my hands when I visited family down there last winter! Also, I have a similar story, but it involved a fist-sized wolf spider, a husband hundreds of miles away, and it clogged my bathtub. We’re survivors, aren’t we? 🙂