[groanup]

My former in-laws lived in Brownsville, Giddings, etc back in the 70's. There was one house they bought near Giddings, new, that had most common species of pit viper living in the back yard. My kids were about 8 and 4 and ran around the back yard with abandon. The snakes were ubiquitous but my kids avoided them somehow. Whatcha gonna do? Tell the kids to sit in the kitchen?

Less troubling but no less uncomfortable were the scorpions that lived in the house. The rug was reddish, brown shag and the scorpions were reddish, brown shag. One could only see them if they moved which some of them did and some of them didn't.

It was a telling day when my ex-father-in-law let out a humongous scream after toweling off with a scorpion laden towel.

Ah, I remember it well, the evenings when we would all sit and drink beer, eating nacho chips with hot sauce on the floor of that brand new house, watching the scorpions crawl across the floor.

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

My grandparents owned a couple of hundred acres south of Giddings that we kept horses on for many years and visited almost every weekend. More scorpions than I have ever seen anywhere on earth.

[kalee]

My friend called me one night and asked me to come help identify the critter in her kitchen light fixture. It was a scorpion, albeit a little one. She lives in Norcross GA. She found a couple around her house when they were building on the lots behind her house.
The ones she found were really little though. The exterminator told her they would not be poisonous but it would be like a spider bite if she or her children got stung.