Nathan Hall
Founding Father
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When their 19-year-old son's Tokay gecko escaped from its cage, Greg and Terry Cooper panicked. The gecko is nocturnal, so the local couple only could hunt for it at night. After several luckless hunts, they finally bid adieu to the wayward reptile, known in the family for its bite, and went ahead with a scheduled tenting and termite fumigation of their home.
About four months later, when their son, Grant, returned home on college break, he spotted the elusive lizard in his bedroom. It had survived the tenting, which made the Coopers wonder if the termites had, too.
So Mom and Dad have renewed their efforts to trap it – using mealworms as bait. The crowning blow was their recent e-mail from their son, back at college: “Glad to hear 'Jaws' is providing some entertainment. Not so glad he is outsmarting you.”
This is not a Geico ad
When their 19-year-old son's Tokay gecko escaped from its cage, Greg and Terry Cooper panicked. The gecko is nocturnal, so the local couple only could hunt for it at night. After several luckless hunts, they finally bid adieu to the wayward reptile, known in the family for its bite, and went ahead with a scheduled tenting and termite fumigation of their home.
About four months later, when their son, Grant, returned home on college break, he spotted the elusive lizard in his bedroom. It had survived the tenting, which made the Coopers wonder if the termites had, too.
So Mom and Dad have renewed their efforts to trap it – using mealworms as bait. The crowning blow was their recent e-mail from their son, back at college: “Glad to hear 'Jaws' is providing some entertainment. Not so glad he is outsmarting you.”
