surprise visitor

This morning, as I sat at my desk in my classroom drinking tea, I noticed something black crawling across the floor. A closer (but not too close) investigation proved my hunch to be correct: I had a rather large black scorpion in my classroom. It was probably 4 inches from claw to tail. Thankfully, I had stored a few old pots in the closet for students to use as percussion instruments, and so I threw one over the scorpion and ran outside. I found one of the school workers and explained to him what I had in my room, and he very calmly walked in, scraped it up with a trowel and a handbroom, and left as though it was nothing. I, on the other hand, looked twice before stepping foot in my classroom for the rest of the day.