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I may never be able to fly again without a biohazard suit on

After a trip to Nevis, at the St Martin airport on the way back, the American Airlines employee who searched my luggage was surprised by a large scorpion which popped up from between my nighties!

(I'm amazed I did not get stung when I was packing.)

He hastily shut my suitcase, waved me through, and left me to deal with it when we got home.

My husband and I put the suitcase in the driveway, he put on gloves and I got kitchen tongs, and we got a plastic pitcher to clap over it if it tried to scuttle off.

Very anticlimactic scene when it turned up very dead and very dessicated in the bottom of the piece-by-piece unpacked suitcase.

Oh Diana, you have me shuddering and wanting to hop around ...lol

"Oh Diana, you have me shuddering and wanting to hop around ...lol"

Haha, I sometimes have that effect on people. gt;

I felt that way when I knew I had PICKED IT UP at some point in packing.

We also brought home a beautiful red-eyed sucker-footed tree frog by accident from a Mexican dive adventure.

I have a total frog phobia and just about had a complete heart attack when it jumped out of my regulator case and hopped off the porch into the grape arbor.

I hope we have not singlehandedly threatened the amphibian population of N.C.

OMG!

Scarlett, given some of the other threads about airplanes and body fluids, I'm going to have to agree with you. But scorpions! What next, snakes?