Femme Fatale

"There’s a lizard on your car"

Just one sentence and it was enough to send me quaking at the corner of my driver’s seat.

Everyone is afraid of something. There’s always that one thing that goes bump in the night that makes your hair stand on ends.

Some people are afraid of heights.

Some afraid of the sea.

Some cringe at the sound of nails scratching against a blackboard.

Hell, my 54 year old, black-belt, taekwando Master daddy is the first to jump onto the dining table when a rat scurries by while mummy runs after it with a broom.

And my 24 year old sister screams the house down when she sees a cockroach basking like 20 feet away from her. But she can easily swoop down and catch a wriggling lizard with her bare hands.

And my fear - LIZARDS!

I hate them brown coloured, cold clammy things that cling everywhere - house ceilings, behind curtains, on billboards, in your shoes…..urgh (quiver)…they’re everywhere!

These irritating, little creatures that make that horrible, horrible sounds! It penetrates through my brains and stays there like for an eternity!

And sometimes I wonder, how do they even get onto my car!!!???

I peered over Pearlz’s shoulder and two eyes just stared back, unblinking, looking at us like as if it knows we’re afraid. I swear It knows!!! And it was actually enjoying our fear - knowing that it has us trapped inside the bloody car.

My heart goes out to the poor security guard who so happened to be walking pass at that time. He must have been thinking, "What are those two idiots waving at me for?"

Correction. We weren’t waving. We were frantically calling him to come over and help us whack the damn thing off my car. But neither one of us dared to even roll the windows down a little to explain the situation. The lizard looked POISONOUS! We might be killed! Or worse…..turned into lizards! Ack!

In the end, the security guard managed to catch the squirmy thing (with his bare hands - which, by the way, was damn stupid of him). But just as we were walking away from the car, the thing managed to wriggle out from his grasp and it ran towards us!

You should have seen the jump. I think we scored perfect 10s. And the screams! It was enough to send two other Indian men running in our direction to find out what happened.

You know, Pearlz is actually not that afraid of lizards. But I think my fear rubbed off on her….it was classic!

Actually, now, when I’m sitting here and thinking about it, it doesn’t feel like it was as bad as it was when it happened, but nevertheless, I think Pearlz and I will never, ever forget about this incident, which happened to us at the 2nd floor of the Pyramid Shopping Centre’s carpark.

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