Pay Any Price, Bear Any Burden
I can be pretty tight-fisted with money. But there are some things that I am totally not price conscious about. Number one with a bullet on that list is scorpion control. Just a few days ago, I had the hubris to comment on How to Be Poor’s blog that I hadn’t seen a scorpion in quite some time. In fact, it had been several months since the last sighting.
So you know darn well what was waiting for my padding little feet this morning as I went down to the kitchen.
Our current pest control service is pretty good — hey, once every few months is better than one or more per day! — but whenever I think there’s a limit to how much I would pay for 100% never-see-another-scorpion-again, another little evil guy comes into my life and obliterates that ceiling.
It’s unfortunate that short of a solution that would probably wipe out all life in my neck of the neighborhood, there does not seem to be any 100% never-see-another-scorpion-again solutions. But if there were, I would pay dearly for it. I don’t think there’s anything else in my life that can work up the same heady mixture of rage and fear as those little bugs.