lizards gross me out

which i why i was thoroughly disgusted to find one ON MY BED when i got out of the shower. you see, i normally associate lizards with deserts and cacti, but for some reason, switzerland is overrun with the things. i'm not kidding. you walk along the sidewalk and you can hear the scurrying of dozens of 8 inch lizards. and if you're sitting on the grass still enough, they will even start to climb on you. needless to say, i don't sit on the grass very often. so anyway, i saw this lizard on my bed and i wanted to cry i was so repulsed. then i thought maybe my new roommates were playing a joke until i saw his tail twitch. i tried to shoo him away, but he was very content to stay where he was. i got my shoe and pushed him and he ran across the length of my bed, contaminating the whole thing. my roommate, sarah, came in the room and saw me with my shoe in my hand and yelled, "DON'T HURT BUSTER!!" BUSTER?!?! THIS THING HAS A NAME?!?!? according to them, that thing had been in the room since we got here and he's been hiding out. they thought he was so cute and harmless. it took half an hour and i was all sweaty at the end but i got buster out of the room for good. my roommates were actually sad about the disappearance of their "pet" because he eats the bugs. WHAT BUGS? so i promised that i would personally buy anything we needed to get rid of any bugs as long as they would be vigilant in keeping the door closed so buster (or his friends) couldn't sneak back in. then, when nobody was looking, i changed my sheets and pillowcase. i was not about to put my face where those scaly little reptile legs had been. i guess it could be worse: last summer the guys found a 3 FOOT SNAKE in their apartment. they aren't quite the animal lovers that my roommates are: they not only killed him, but they didn't even name him.