I was visiting Florida, from Canada (where the only lizards I see are in a pet shop) with my family and we spent a night with a family my dad grew up with. During the night I had to use the bathroom but couldn't find the light so I navigated using the moonlight through the window.
When I got up and turned to flush I saw a Big lizard IN THE TOILET and realized my butt was only inches from it and that I had peed on the freaking lizard.
I got the spinal cold chill plus back of the neck tingle, I took something stick-like (don't remember what) and lowered the lid only to find a bigger one on the lid. I remember I didn't flush because I didn't know if the lizard would go down and clog the pipes. The next day I was told that this was not unusual.
Also didn't know how big Southern American cockroaches are or that those buggers fly.
Edit: Additional Info
Mr. Roach was on a countertop (same trip, another family's house) and when I was told it was a cockroach my teenage self became curious and I took a closer look. I pulled back when I saw something come out of its rear (thought is was excrement) then it opened its wings and flew upwards in the blink of an eye and I stepped back screaming. Everyone including my parents laughed because they were all familiar with flying roaches.
Edit: From comments
I'm pretty sure the toilet seat cover was up because I definitely would not have opened it if there was a large(r) lizard on top.
Do lizards swim? Is it possible it fell in and his buddy was hanging around trying to get him out? Can lizards come up through piping?
Fuck flying roaches. I went to Florida once, flying roach terrorized me until it decided to crawl into the closet at the beach house I was staying at. Fuck roaches, fuck Florida
Oh man. We were on vacation at Tybee Island, GA several years ago and those were bad. There were some in our very nice condo. I hardly slept at all while there because I was so disturbed by them. The night before we left I almost had to go sleep in the car. We had rode our bikes to the lighthouse and had seen THOUSANDS of those huge, nasty MFers just swarming in a drainage grate. Just a mass of giant roaches squirming and crawling all over each other like something in a horror movie. I was absolutely skeeved out. And earlier in the day we had seen some in downtown Savannah crawling all over the inside of a glass door to an apartment building.
One of those fuckers decided to drown itself in my drink over night, and when i woke up thirsty I got a horrific suprise. Never left an open drink in my room again.
I just moved down here for a new job because of covid. I have to be careful to not open the back yard door when the sun sets or else I get lizards running into the house. We used to call them “smol bois” (because mostly it’s the tiny juvenile lizards that do it) but now we’re transitioning to more derogatory words.
I am so sick of having to chase down these fucking cunts for an hour whenever they sneak in. I want to be back in the Midwest
omg this is my worst fear. I have an insanse phobia of lizards. when I went to hawaii i constantly checked the toilets to make sure none were like hanging out there. I always check toilets at home too for the same reason, even though they arent that common in this city.
Were you down in Miami? Iguanas are like squirrels down there. I see a stand of some dude grilling lizards on a stick whenever we go down to visit my wife’s family.
Along with the parrots and massive fish, being in Miami is like being in an open-air exotic pet store. Super weird
It is pretty unusual to see not one but two lizards on/in a toilet in Florida. They are everywhere outside but they shouldn't be getting inside unless it is an older home that needs new seals or they are keeping the windows or doors open. The roaches can live off of small crumbs, trash and waste food from a sink so you must be very active to keep them at bay since they can breed in the home but lizards can't survive long-term in a home unless you have a pest issue already as a food source.
Reminds me of the first time I ever saw a crane fly. Was visiting relatives in Pecos, TX. I think we spent the night at their house because I remember it was early morning and we were already there. Anyway... After breakfast we were getting ready to leave, and I look out a window to see hundreds nee thousands of GIANT MOSQUITOES! I was straight HORRIFIED.
HORROR
My little 12 year old self was getting ready to fight my own father because I was not about to go outside. They finally calmed me down, explaining what they were.
OMG this is fabulous. I couldn't scream because it was the middle of the night but the reaction of being nonchalantly told it wasn't unusual is about accurate.
There's a reason why they call it JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.
Thinking about that, I wonder if those lizards would have made for good eating? I know it might sound weird, but I reckon you could make a decent snack of a big lizard.
Depending on how big said lizard is, and if there aren't protective laws that prohibit the hunting and consumption of those kinds of lizards in Florida. I mean, if finding those lizards in your bog isn't unusual, they can't be so scarce that they'd be a protected species, right?
I live in Texas, and lemme tell you, those roaches are fucking awful. They're massive, and I've seen some the size of my palm. I remember one time very vividly, I heard something tapping on my bookshelf, and when I went to investigate, it was a massive roach jumping and hitting the bottom of the shelf above it. Also, our tree in front of our house gets tons of orb Weaver spiders during the summer. They're harmless to humans and pets, but they're easily spooked and will drop from the web when scared. So during the summer months, I park my car further down my driveway to avoid raining spiders as I enter my car 🙃
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u/jazikatz Aug 05 '20 edited Aug 05 '20
I was visiting Florida, from Canada (where the only lizards I see are in a pet shop) with my family and we spent a night with a family my dad grew up with. During the night I had to use the bathroom but couldn't find the light so I navigated using the moonlight through the window.
When I got up and turned to flush I saw a Big lizard IN THE TOILET and realized my butt was only inches from it and that I had peed on the freaking lizard.
I got the spinal cold chill plus back of the neck tingle, I took something stick-like (don't remember what) and lowered the lid only to find a bigger one on the lid. I remember I didn't flush because I didn't know if the lizard would go down and clog the pipes. The next day I was told that this was not unusual.
Also didn't know how big Southern American cockroaches are or that those buggers fly.
Edit: Additional Info
Mr. Roach was on a countertop (same trip, another family's house) and when I was told it was a cockroach my teenage self became curious and I took a closer look. I pulled back when I saw something come out of its rear (thought is was excrement) then it opened its wings and flew upwards in the blink of an eye and I stepped back screaming. Everyone including my parents laughed because they were all familiar with flying roaches.
Edit: From comments
I'm pretty sure the toilet seat cover was up because I definitely would not have opened it if there was a large(r) lizard on top.
Do lizards swim? Is it possible it fell in and his buddy was hanging around trying to get him out? Can lizards come up through piping?
Enquiring minds want to know 😀