Hello,
As I said yesterday, that slithery incident reminded me of an earlier visit of a snake to my house. But why do these snakes crawl into my house only? Oh! Those meanies!
It was a few years back when I was small – maybe four or five years old. I was having my evening snacks sitting on the middle of the living room floor watching television. My brother was on the sofa. My mother went to the terrace to water the potted plants; and I followed her like Mary’s little lamb leaving behind my food.
It was then that this ferocious snake entered our house as fast as it could; and my brother who was sitting there glued to the television suddenly took notice of this snake which was showing of its big and bright head. My brother seeing it ran out faster than the snake when it had come in.
My mother, hearing about it went inside carefully to see where the snake was. Can you imagine? It was inside our bedroom trying to get onto the bed so that it can sleep there peacefully. I think its own natural habitat was too noisy and so it came to our house.
My mother then closed all the doors to the other rooms including this bedroom’s. Oh! I got so scared, so scared that I started pulling my mother’s hand so that we could run away. My mother had phoned my father who rushed home along with his cousin.
By the time they reached home the snake had climbed on top of a shelf. We could see its tail moving from behind the radio kept there. Maybe it was trying to listen to some soft music and at the same time scare us.
My father and his cousin entered the room and closed the door. All we could here were some “whish”, “bang”, “boom” and “thuds”. We could see nothing, but what was happening inside? Then we heard the window opening. So we all ran out to see if the snake was coming out. Yes, It was… My father was poking at it from one side and his cousin was poking it from the other side. The snake may have thought, “What a terrible neighborhood? It is better to be with my old family in the noisy natural habitat”. So the snake slithered outside through the window and onto the road through the gate. We all heaved a sigh of relief.
But the excitement had not ended. The snake instead of going away had entered a nearby shop. Oh! The poor old lady inside the shop screamed and ran out almost stepping on the snake. The poor snake too, got frightened and went up to the roof. It was a long time before the snake was sent off on its way. It went as fast as it could, willingly leaving this neighborhood. And that was the end of that snake’s visit.
Another time, a baby snake… Ok! Ok! I won’t tell you now… we will stop with this snake thingy.
Bye,
I hope you enjoyed this incident,
Good Night, Sleep tight and don’t let the snakes bite!!!
- Rupashri
poor snaky.