I haven’t done a ‘Spaz Moment of the Day’ posting in a while…so today, I bring you a memory from my past. In past life, I was a traveling Trainer…and I would travel all over the United States. When traveling I had the company of a good friend Kim -- Kim is an amazingly funny energetic blonde that I had a great time with. That being said…here is the ‘Tale of Two Geckos’ written by Kim. Enjoy!
The Adventures of Stephanie and Kim – Jacksonville, FL Edition
The tale of two geckos
It was a day like any other training day, or so we thought. The sun was bright and the air so thick and warm so that we needed to chew it before inhaling it. After a long morning, we walked out of the cool, air conditioned building to take a much needed lunch away from work. Instantly our hair went flat and our clothes stuck to us like we had just climbed out of a pool. Little did we know that the thick, damp, swamp heat would soon be the last thing on our minds.
Once in the car, the usual witty banter filled the interior while we surveyed our surroundings for a place to eat. As we spoke, we spied movement on the hood of the Dodge Stratus and quickly dismissed it as stuff in Florida that fly’s across the hoods of cars. Then, it moved violently again. This time we both instinctively knew it was not just Florida stuff flying across the hood anymore. We bolted upright up in our seats and stared at the hood of the car (with that one raised eyebrow thing). I leaned forward further to identify the unidentified jumping object. It was short and green. I yelled, “It’s a lizard!!! We have a lizard on the car!!”
After the screaming and hyperventilating subsided, I yelled, “Pull over so we can get it off!” Stephanie responded with, “WHERE!?!” After much mayhem, whiplash and struggling with staring at the lizard and steering the car, we found a car dealership on the left we could pull into. We parked the car as fast as we could, lest the little guy fall off and get schmucked in traffic! I volunteered to exit the vehicle and shoo the critter away, but the ...the…. Gecko? Yeah! The Gecko was not in the mood to be shooed! I shooed this way and he ran that way! I shooed and I shooed to no avail!! As I shooed in vain, the Gecko ran up near the windshield to hide. I could hear Stephanie screaming uncontrollably from within the car…or was she laughing uncontrollably? SUDDENLY, out of nowhere, another Gecko jumped out from under the hood.
There I was, all alone with two lizards refusing to leave. I don’t know if I was laughing or screaming, or both. Either way, apparently it was bad, as Stephanie slowly pulled herself out from the driver seat while she laughed or screamed, or both. Regardless, when she stopped hyperventilating, she too shooed.
Now there were two hysterical, laughing, screaming women in heels running around the front of the car screaming at it! (What I would give to have caught that on film.)
Anyway, after awhile, one Gecko was safely shooed behind the grill on the front of the car. He stared back at us defiantly from behind the grill. The other, I managed to load onto a piece of mail for safe shipping to the grass area ahead. As we walked back to the car to decide our next move, the Gecko in the grass ran back over and jumped onto the tire!
A couple days later, we were headed for the airport and then home. We never saw the hood-riding Geckos again. A sort of sadness seemed to settle over our usual chatty glee as we headed away from the office. The quietness seemed to consume us and I knew we were both thinking the same thing. What had happened to the two Geckos and were they ok?
As we quietly began our final decent into the airport car rental return there was a sudden loud, “WAP!!!” A Gecko leaped onto the windshield with a massive force.
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