A couple days ago I borrowed a VCR from a coworker and today I went to return it. She was out of her room and her lights were off. I reached in to turn on the light, VCR in hand, and there, two feet away, was a snake. A snake just hanging out on the floor. I just about jumped out of my pants. At school, you learn to deal with unexpected circumstances, but this is completely startling. As though the situation was not funny enough, as I leaped out of the room screaming/laughing/hyperventilating, one of the 8th grade science teachers was walking his class passed the room. They just looked at me like I was crazy. I'm not sure if I got the word "snake" out. The teacher then proceeded to tell me a joke about a captain of a ship asking for a red shirt when he went into battle against 2 other ships so the crew wouldn't see if he had been shot. And then when he saw he was up against 25 other ships, he asked for his brown pants. The moral, apparently, was that I needed brown pants. Very comforting. I'm just glad someone was around to enjoy the show. It would have been wasted hilarity for me to experience that alone.
-Emily
2 comments:
Was the snake wooden or real? Is it still there? Marlene
It was a very real snake. One of our science teachers has a bunch of animals. It had escaped, slithered down the hall, and entered the room under the door 3 rooms away - not a short trip!
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