The Scene: In the WC on the toilet paper holder
The Time: Around 8 p.m. Thursday August 9th
Last weekend, inspired by a painting sibling and a floor-laying co-worker, I decided it was time to paint the little toilet room within our bathroom, which for the past 3 years has been three-quarters painted with primer and one-quarter just not painted at all. It is a small room so was quickly finished, but the tape had to be left up for 24 hours afterwards. And the tape couldn't be just pulled off; it needed to be run through with a knife at the edges to make sure that removing the tape did not remove paint as well. So, because I am me, I did not get around to this last step till yesterday evening.
I decided to start with the toilet paper holder. So there I was, sitting on the toilet lid with an Exacto knife in my hand carefully cutting and peeling back the tape, when suddenly
there he was! It is true, I really did yell, the scorpion being about 4 inches from my face; but I quickly realized he was stuck fast, and in fact I had worsened it by accidentally folding some tape over his tail. I got some tweezers and got to work. First I unwrapped the tape from his tail—
and then I was able, by tweezing, to maneuver him off the tape and into the Catch & Release container that I had at the ready:
Later on we took the dogs for a walk and freed the scorpion at the bottom of the hill.
The Tools of My Trade
The event entitled Thank God for Dropcloths won't be gone into at this time.
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