My ex-father-in-law witnessed one of his buddies putting on a pair of those high, lace up boots. The poor sob had laced them up for five minutes when the scorpion began to sting. It took him a couple of minutes to get the damn things off.
Another one that proves everything in Texas bites, stings, itches, hurts and smells bad is the canoe story. I decided to buy a canoe trailer and two canoes from my father-in-law. When I went out to load the canoes on the trailor I turned them over and they were both full of black widow spiders.
You know how the song goes: "If you're gonna play in Texas, you gotta have a fiddle in the band". Well, if you're gonna walk around in Texas, you gotta have a repellant. LOL>
"Well, if you're gonna walk around in Texas, you gotta have a repellant. LOL>"
Wipe diesel fuel on your work boots every once in a while. Seems to work well for fireants and scorpions.
Any damned tenderfoot who puts his boots on in Texas without first turning them upside down and bangin them around a bit DESERVES what happens next!