I got it outside , where it promptly hid in the floor mat by the breezeway - which , great idea , how 's about you hide in the precise place where we wipe our feet ? - and later snuck off into the front garden and away to its lizard lifestyle . Bizarre , especially because in three - plus years of living here , we ' ve never encountered either lizard or amphibian inside the house .
Question: What spooked the narrator at their home ?
The answer to the above question:


They found a reptile .