Lobster Gram

So Joel and I got a "Lobster Gram" for Christmas from Joel's folks, and boy was that ever an experience!  Our LIVE lobster arrived in the mail, and I was terrified to cook it because I've always heard that when you boil them, they scream.  I told Joel that I wouldn't be able to eat it if I had to listen to it scream to death, and that I thought the steak package that we had gotten the year before for Christmas was more up my alley: )  I did manage to muster up enough courage to get my own lobster out of the styrofoam cooler (with the help of my dishwashing gloves: )  And just as I began to pick it up, I heard an awful shreeking noise that I swore was the darn thing screaming at me, so I did what anybody would do (anybody scared of a screaming lobster anyway: ) and dropped the lobster back into the cooler... come to find out, after Joel stopped laughing long enough to point this out to me, that it wasn't the lobster screaming... it was the lobster's claw that was stuck on the side of the styrofoam cooler that had made the noise when I tried to pick it up.  So when he reassured me my lobster wasn't screaming at me, I did manage to pick it up for a few photo ops.  It said in the directions that some people prefer to massage the back of the lobster because it relaxes them almost to the point of a trance so they don't scream, so obviously I chose to massage my lobster in hopes that it would help with the screaming, and so that the last thing it would remember was a nice massage instead of plunging head first into a pot full of boiling water:o)  Hah!  I didn't really, but the thought DID cross my mind.  Long story short, the lobsters didn't let out a peep when we cooked them... maybe that's an old wives' tail, or maybe we had them out of the cooler too long before we cooked them?!  Much to my surprise, it was actually a fun experience, and the lobsters were delicious!