As a kid living in a military base on a tropical country, I went into an outdoor bathroom stall at night by myself in the dark and when my eyes got used to the darkness, I realized there was ***something*** on the back of the stall door. 😳

The leaned in a little closer and realized I had locked myself into a tiny bathroom stall with an ENORMOUS monitor lizard clinging to the door.

If you don’t know what a monitor lizard is, please be grateful lol. It’s the closest thing we have to dinosaurs still walking the earth- grow to be about 10 feet, are carnivorous and aggressive as hell. This video is like 4 years old so pre AI and gives you a pretty good idea how awful these things are

I sat for a moment carefully evaluating my options - Scream for my mom? Crawl underneath into the next stall? Try to climb over into the next stall? After rejecting all of those, I decided to slowly open the door by pulling it with my foot from the bottom and squeeze past it while hoping it did not attack me. Once I got out, I started shrieking my head off and the lizard had to be removed from the bathroom.

I’ve told this story several times over the years during job interviews lol. “Tell us about a time you handled a stressful situation,” 😂.