Makes me think of when I was 12....my mom and I had moved into a new apartment complex in an area of Riverside that was being newly developed. My mom worked two jobs so I was home some evenings by myself. Well, one evening I was on the floor doing my homework in front of the TV and I see this opaque-whitish UGLY looking object coming towards me....it was a scorpion!!
At first I didn't know what it was because all the scorpions I'd even seen were black. I quickly ran and got a jar and put it over it and waited for my mom to handle it. I was terrified...it was so ugly. Another time there was a three inch centipede headed towards me. It didn't take me long to learn to wear shoes and not sit on the ground. Awful!