Surfing With Lizzy
I took a lizard for a ride. I was driving Amy to work when she noticed a small lizard on the windshield. I had my pocket digital camera with me, it didn't have batteries in it, but for the record I did have it with me.
Anyway the lizard looked something like this except it was perched on a well dented 1997 Oldsmobile:
When I started to get out of the car at a stop sign to rescue the lizard, my wife - who is known to go into mourning over
So much for human kindness.
In Amy's defense, such little lizards or chameleons are everywhere in South Texas this time of year. One of our dogs makes them a regular staple of her diet, much to our disgust. It's also not uncommon to be sitting in what you would normally consider a "private area" of the house and suddenly notice that you're being watched by tiny little eyes from a creature that came in or under the door.
If you try to catch them, you invariably end up pulling off their tails which for all involved is a disappointing ending.
Anyway, I dropped Amy off and ran a few other errands and was headed back to the house when the lizard poked his head down from the roof of the car.
He disappeared out of my view moments later. I don't know if he ducked into some other spot on the car or flew off but I'm going to assume he stayed on for the full ride.
Perhaps I'm extrapolating too much of my life into the existence of a lizard, but it seems once you've committed yourself to the challenge - as insane as it might be - there really is no sense letting go.
posted by Michael
©The Main Point by Michael Main
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5 Comments:
we lived in Alabama for a few years, and we used to think that our cat's acutally chewed the tail off the lizards down there until someone informed us that the lizard (at least the ones native to that area) can lose thier tales as a sort of defense mechanism.....I also remember the black widow spiders...and the bugs of mamouth porportions......I'm shuddering just thinking about it....
Interesting about the lizard defense mechanism. That piece of the blog entry really got to me, too:
"If you try to catch them, you invariably end up pulling off their tails which for all involved is a disappointing ending."
Maybe it?s just too hard to be back at work after a three-day weekend, but the line even inspired me:
Lizard Haiku
If you try to catch,
tail breaks. All involved feel the
Disappointing end.
Lizard Limerick
If you try to be their friend,
And to the outdoors send,
This project will fail
as you pull off their tail;
Disappointment for all in the end.
Thanks for the creative push.
Time to go home now!
Harlan
ok, Harlan....if you where inspired by the tail thing....can you write a limerick about scary black widows hiding under a tarp????
Under the tarp the black widow I see
The spiderous intruder could poison me
How to deal with the fright she provokes
Certainly not with kicks or pokes.
Sometimes it's best to let our fears be.
ok....but shouldn't you have included something about "toxin's in a can" I bring in my hand. Death is nearer than that darn spider thinks. ??????
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