If you send your kids to co-op at my house, they're always in for a treat. Sometimes I break out the tinker toys, sometimes I break out the Toddler Tunes, and sometimes I break out the snakes. WHAT? Yep.
Today, when my sweet friend Kristen Richmond came to drop off her little guy Brady, we spotted another co-op guest in my front yard--who by the way, DID NOT sign up or pay me tickets.
This guy came ready to play:
(look for the tail where the bark meets the bush)
Could it be one of Talega's infamous baby rattlers that squirt poison all over young children at co-op? Sure looked like it. But I am scared, no--TERRIFIED, of snakes. Worse than I fear getting head lice from a movie theatre seat. I wasn't going to get near enough to figure it out. So we called Animal Control to come and save the children.
Too bad Kristen had an appt. and couldn't stick around long enough to see the very official Animal Control chica with her badge haul over (I think she showed up quicker than the fire department did.) After hearing about my snakophobia, she took a quick two step over to the visitor--who by the way, had yet to move since it's initial spotting-- picked it up, and shook it like a banshee in my face. I almost peed.
She gave me the kind of "You're such a wimp" look that you would expect from a woman in uniform and threw the rubber snake into my front yard.
It was an honest mistake. I didn't know it was rubber. And neither did Kristen when she came back to pick up Brady three hours later, and this was waiting for her in the bushes right by my front door.
I think she almost peed, too, when I picked it up and threw it in her face.
You are too funny. We get snakes all the time from the ditch behind our backyard. They are all innocent garden ones, but they have popped out of the garden part I was weeding and given me a good scare now and them. Mostly, my cats leaves them and I have to throw them back over the fence. Before I do though, I usually get the gloves on and hold it so the kids can see it and dare I say it even PET it. I do it in hopes that they won't be afraid as they get older either.
ReplyDeleteI think it was pretty awesome that the animal control lady let you take her picture.