Give me a snake any day over a scorpion. Those little buggers just give me the heebie jeebie. So I figure if they scare me that bad, then everybody else must hate 'em just as bad. So here's what I did... I thought it would be funny to play a little joke on some of our hunters. After all, this is the group that hid a toy snake up in the loft for me to find while cleaning the cabins, so they really did have it coming.
Before the hunters arrived, I printed up these little envelopes and glued a little funnel to the front of it..
Then, I put about a teaspoon of dried rice inside each envelope and then added a couple of live june bugs before taping it shut. I then tacked one envelope near the head of each bed in both our guest house and the cabins. Well, with all the excitement of the hunt, I had forgotten about my little joke...until the next morning when I went over to camp. All the hunters were sitting around the firepit talking, but when I pulled up , they all got quiet. Finally, one of them looked up sheepishly and said "you know Cheryl, I think you need to empty some of those scorpion traps". Now, I'm not good at keeping a joke, and did all I could to keep from busting a gut. The next guy said "yeah, I couldn't sleep at all hearing them things crawling around in there. In fact, I slept with my head at the foot of the bed to get away from them!" This converstaion continued with each hunter relating his horror story about how he didn't get any sleep the night before until finally it came to the one guy who slept in the spare room where I didn't put any "scorpion traps". He said he had it worse than the others. He tore his bed apart and couldn't sleep a wink because he didn't have a scorpion trap in his room. He told me "I figured with as many scorpions as the other guys had in their traps, my room must've been crawling with 'em!"
I about fell over laughing before I could tell them what I had done. Now all I have to worry about is what they're going to do to get even when they come back next June.
Before the hunters arrived, I printed up these little envelopes and glued a little funnel to the front of it..
Then, I put about a teaspoon of dried rice inside each envelope and then added a couple of live june bugs before taping it shut. I then tacked one envelope near the head of each bed in both our guest house and the cabins. Well, with all the excitement of the hunt, I had forgotten about my little joke...until the next morning when I went over to camp. All the hunters were sitting around the firepit talking, but when I pulled up , they all got quiet. Finally, one of them looked up sheepishly and said "you know Cheryl, I think you need to empty some of those scorpion traps". Now, I'm not good at keeping a joke, and did all I could to keep from busting a gut. The next guy said "yeah, I couldn't sleep at all hearing them things crawling around in there. In fact, I slept with my head at the foot of the bed to get away from them!" This converstaion continued with each hunter relating his horror story about how he didn't get any sleep the night before until finally it came to the one guy who slept in the spare room where I didn't put any "scorpion traps". He said he had it worse than the others. He tore his bed apart and couldn't sleep a wink because he didn't have a scorpion trap in his room. He told me "I figured with as many scorpions as the other guys had in their traps, my room must've been crawling with 'em!"
I about fell over laughing before I could tell them what I had done. Now all I have to worry about is what they're going to do to get even when they come back next June.
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