Pakistan mein woh ghar hi kia, jahan chipkali na ho? They live among you, eat and breathe among you. You have been seeing them on your walls since ages, but they still never fail to disgust and scare the living lights out of you.
Here are the things anyone with a crazy fear of lizards can totally relate to:
You have all the lizard related accidents and waqeyaat memorized, and listen to the new ones carefully in case you have to combat a new lizard
Aik family k doodh mein chipkali gir gai thi, aur phir woh sab mar gaye thay.
Nothing can ruin your perfect day than spotting a fat little lizard in your room
The moment you spot one, you stop moving, blinking and breathing
You quickly think of an escape plan every time you come face-to-face with one
Should I poke it with a jhaaroo, or should I just move to a different house?
You try poking it to see how active the lizard is
If she (or he) moves even a little, no matter how far on the wall it is from you, you scream and jump farther
You think of calling someone braver to handle this situation
But then you ask God why He had to create this disgusting little thing?
You are surer than ever that it will fall on you
You considerably exaggerate what a lizard is capable of doing
It is poisonous and it drags you to the lizard land and eats your flesh with the rest of its clan
But in the end, you’ll wait all night for it to leave, trying not to blink so your life is spared by the big bad lizard
But the lizard decides to have company, instead of one, there are two of them now and they decide to compete in the Reptile Olympics on your wall
So you what any normal human being should do in a similar situation. You move out of the room. And the city, and the country. And then you never come back.
