Strange though it may seem, one of my worst fears about living in a cloud forest hasn't been treading on a snake or being bitten on the neck by a mountain lion, it's always been getting stung in a sensitive and intimate place by a scorpion.
The other day my worst fears were realized.
It happened after an early morning shower, I grabbed a towel and began to dry myself vigorously around my nether region, which apparently the scorpion didn't appreciate - and it hit its intended target. Luckily it was only a small one, (the scorpion that is) but it didn't half make me hop around, long enough for the scorpion to make its exit.
Shortly after my neighbour came round and I told her I had been stung.
Shortly after my neighbour came round and I told her I had been stung.
"Donde? (Where?)"
"Aqui (Here)" I said pointing downwards.
She laughed so hard I thought she was going to have a fit.
Rather you than me.
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