Lizards!! Aaahhh...

Dedicated to my wonderful friend, best best roomie ever and a fellow lizard hater!! :D

Lizards are, according to me, a shrunken version of the dinosaurs. All the lizard non haters say they are pretty harmless. But i beg to differ. They are extremely harmful, ugly looking, dangerous and despicable creatures. I am saying all this out of my own experience.
I've always been scared of them and have hated them but the intensity of my hatred has increased now after I know that they conspire and rage a war and scare us poor souls who are already so afraid of them!! :( I lived in Mysore for a couple of years. Both my roomie and I are scared, super scared of them. I think they could smell ( or sense in some weird way) our fear for they would roam around on the floors and crawl so low on the walls of our home like they are ready to pounce on my head any moment. Living in constant fear of being attacked by these evil creatures, I decided it's high time I did something against these creations of God. My post is just my way of saying-"No matter what happens I'll always hate you, Lizard!"
I've fought three big wars so far I guess with the lizards and still I don't know who has emerged victorious in them :( I'll tell you about them and maybe you can decide for me.
One day, we came back from work- it had become a habit by then to scan our rooms for the presence of our beloved guets at home, by habit, we were scanning our rooms. And no prizes for guessing, that day there it was, sitting in the corner of one wall in my friend's room staring at us mockingly. I don't know whether the walls had less grip, or whether the creature had no fear, I knew that it would be on the floor at any moment. Sleeping with the lizard in the same room, was completely out of question. Thus began our first war against the lizards. We brought out our weapons- Hit spray and a broom. As expected, it came on the floor and somehow after a lot of screaming and shouting, I sprayed Hit on it. That didn't deter the creature. It was running all around after that. We hit it with the broom and still no use. This process went on for quite sometime. We were tired and suffocated due to excessive inhalation of Hit, the enemy finally got exhausted and wiggly so we thought it was accepting defeat. So I got out a piece of paper so I could throw it out of our house. But it again moved. One final blow and it became immobile. I picked it up and threw it out of our house. We used to sleep on the floor till that time. After this incident, the next day we had cots :D
Several months passed after this. We had our encounters with them on a regular basis. It would show itself in the living room or kitchen quite often. On a Friday, I was to leave for Bangalore. I was in a hurry to leave, and I saw it's head peep out near an open shelf in my room on the floor. But I was in a hurry and moreover it was weekend so I decided to let it party in my room for the weekend. I told it the same thing and moved out of my house. When I came back, I didn't look around for the lizard for two reasons:
(a) I just assumed it would be out of my room because two days had passed
(b) In case it was still there, I didn't want to go looking for it and wage another war
So I continued living in peace and I almost forgot about it when one day it showed itself again in the same place. And it seemed filled with a lot of energy. Our second war had started. Again the Hit spray and broom came out. The enemy was more prepared to scare us this time around. Every time I went near it to shoo it off, it seemed to run right into me and attack me. From one corner of the room to the other, on the floor, the lizard kept running as we attacked it. This time both my roomie and I were even more scared. No matter what we did, the lizard was not ready to slow down. I already had a very huge guilt of murdering one lizard, didn't want to do it again. But this cunning creature didn't leave me with an option. It shed it's wiggly tail and started running. But we didn't give up. Finally, it had to sacrifice it's life. But I should say this was a bigger martyr than it's previous friend. Gave a very tough fight. Left us exhausted and tired and so sad that we had to kill one more lizard. :(
After this, they changed their way of attack. they chose our kitchen now. There was one day when there were three of them having a gala time in our kitchen. We gave in by skipping dinner that night because we didn't have the guts to stand in the midst of them and cook :D
The scariest incident, the final war,happened when I was alone. T his is the reason why I call these creatures evil and schemy and cunning. I was alone at home when one lizard decided to enter my room and crawl up behind my bed to the same exact height as my bed. It stranded itself on the wall behind my bed. I was standing outside my room and watching it. I didn't know what to do. It was challenging me giving me those looks. I was all alone talking to my mom on the phone. Telling her about it, I got yelled at by my parents for being so scared. I hung up. Told them I'll do something about it. With great guts I was going towards my room and it started of doing acrobatics. Stretching it's head and all that and as I was looking, it LEAPT!! Leapt towards my bed, as though aiming to go sleep straight on it. But thankfully, it missed it. Came straight on the floor. It ran and hid under my blanket which was lying on the floor! This was it. I mean I had never ever seen a lizard leap before! I decided it's gone out of my hands now. There is nothing I can do about it. I just gave up. But I had to sleep! Sleep in my room. I decided to take help. Went to my neighbor's house and told the Aunty my problem. Poor her, she's also a lizard hater. She said she'll tell her husband once he comes home. So I waited for him to come. Finally, around ten in the night he came over. He went to my room. I told him the last i saw it, it was under the blanket and it was still there when he went. Sleeping cozily under my blanket :( He just so easily, like it was an ant, went ahead and swept it and drove it out of the house without any difficulty! I just stood there and stared speechless. The lizard was out. I was glad. :)
Finally, after two years of living in that lizard filled place we moved out. I came back to my house. It so happened that I had to stay here with my same roomie for a week when my parents had gone out of town. No prizes for guessing, yes, the lizards were back here to haunt me. I've never seen so many of them together when my parents are around. There were around five of them roaming around near the kitchen. And one fine day, there was one lizard that had fallen into the kitchen sink!!
I feel jinxed. As I already said, any new place I go to, I just spot them and find them staring at me giving me the bad looks. But I hope I'll be able to create my own world which doesn't have any of these unwanted, sad creatures where I can live peacefully without the fear of attack by Descendants of the Dinosaur!!