I Almost Wet My Pants!

Once every month or two, someone at the office I work at finds a scorpion creeping around inside the building (we're literally at the edge of the desert). Usually they're tiny, but the other day a big specimen was discovered--stretched out, nearly five inches (30 cm). I asked the finder if I could have it, to make it into a decoration. I took it home and dumped it into a bucket of water to drown it. Two hours later, I took it out, put it into a big dog food bowl we don't use any more, and I began to shape it into a cool pose while it was still flexible. Several minutes of handling later, it was ready, so I carefully took the bowl into the garage to let it dry there for a couple of days. Ten minutes later, my son Isaac wanted to see it. We went into the garage...to find it walking around! I nearly wet my pants.
I now know just a wee bit of how the apostles must have felt when seeing the risen Christ!
Anyway, it's very dead now (I put it in the water for three days), and when it dries, I'll cover it with about ten coats of clear lacquer spray paint. I'll have a decoration and a conversation piece.