This was posted over 19 years ago; my opinions, thoughts, attitude, and writing style may have evolved since then, and this post might have been different if it were to be posted today.
dad, on the phone: “so we woke up the other morning and found a scorpion in our hotel room…”
me: “WHAT?!”
apparently mom woke up and saw it going across the floor and raised a hullabaloo and dad had to smash it with a shoe… o_o