Saturday, June 27, 2009

WOW

My son was on his way home from the construction site, driving his pickup, when he felt a tickling by his belly button. So he swatted the spot and the tickle went higher up and again he swatted it and when he felt it on his chest he looked down and couldn't see anything. Again he looked down and came face to face with a snake. In panic he tried to brush it off but it just popped back. Then he saw that it was stuck in his seat belt, so he unbuckled the seat belt and slapped it to the floor, where it curled up, so he stomped on it and it disappeared. Of course he was all over the highway, causing people to wonder what was going on. Anyway, he pulled over and opened the door and it quickly crawled out of the pickup. He had a string hanging down his shorts leg and from then on, all the way home he would feel it and think it was another snake. He worried all the way home, that it had babies or another snake in there. When he got home he had his two younger children clean out the pickup and they wouldn't let there older brother help , he came over to our house, but didn't tell them about the snake or it would never have gotten checked out by them. after they about had it all cleaned out, he walk across our lawn to his place and told them about the snake. My wife watched as he told them about what happened. At first they took a step back from the truck and then quickly backed off and told there older brother he cold finish the cleanup. But he don't like them critters either, so the cleaning ended real fast. There older brother had to go to the Construction site the next day with his dad and he did not like the idea. His dad seemed to have a lot of work for his son to do. In my younger days, I played with snakes, And I helped take care of two Boa's, while with the special forces in Vietnam; but today, well, I think I would have died right there on the spot.