Death of a Lizard

(True story written by Linda)

Every one always says that truth is stranger than fiction…this story will prove that!

Scene – We were spending the night at Mark & Jo Waltz’s house in Asunción.  In the morning, Ed had gone out to do some errands.  I stayed in the apartment to take a leisurely shower, and get ready to leave to go home to Santaní. 

I had finished my shower and was ready to dry my hair.  Note – I dry my hair without my glasses on.  When I turned on the dryer, it made a terrible noise and smelled as if rubber was burning!  I turned it off, unplugged it, looked inside, and thought I saw a broken rubber band or motor belt, moving around freely inside the dryer casing.  I thought, just 2 years old and already broken!  I finished drying my hair with a blow dryer that Jo had.

After finishing my morning activities, I decided to try to repair my dryer.  After all, I had fixed many dryers in the past by just replacing the belt.  I put on my glasses, and started to open the back of the dryer.  SURPRISE!!  It wasn’t a broken belt or rubber band inside by dryer – it was a LIZARD!  Now a dead lizard, of course, after being electrocuted by my dryer.

I put the dryer outside on the patio.  When Ed came back, I said – “why don’t you look inside by dryer?”  He couldn’t believe a lizard had gotten inside the dryer casing.  He took off the back of the dryer to remove the lizard.  The poor thing was hanging on by a little foot.  Eventually, Ed was able to work the dead lizard out of my dryer.

The lizard?  Very dead!  The dryer?  It works perfectly!