What a story.  I had a friend who's brother had some snakes and when I
stayed the night I always would think about them getting out but luckily
they never did.

Amy
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From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, May 29, 2006 4:36 PM
Subject: My Snake Story


>      Ok, you talked me into it.  Here is my snake story once
> again.
>
> We have an empty field next to our house.  The kids, when they
> were little, caught some common old garden snakes and wanted to
> keep them as pets.  So we buy these glass aquariums with a screen
> top on them.  The screens fit very tightly around the top so there
> was no way the snakes could get out but they did.  I couldn't
> believe a snake could squeeze under those tight fitting frames but
> day after day, they kept getting out.  So, I took some duct tape
> and taped around the outside edges of the frames.  the snakes
> stopped getting out.  So one day, after the snakes got out again,
> I had given up trying to keep them pinned, I told the kids to
> catch them and let them go in the field.  They caught all but one.
> He kept going under our stairs leading down into the basement and
> we couldn't catch him.
>
>      A week later, Sandy and I were talking and she said, "That
> snake couldn't come upstairs, could he?"  I said no because I
> figured he couldn't climb stairs.  Wrong again.
>
>      I was working out in my office and my mom came over.  She
> would have been in her sixties about this time.  After she did a
> couple of things for me, she said, "I'm going to leave now but I
> am going to use your bathroom before I go."  I said, ok, and went
> back to what I was doing.  A couple of minutes later, I heard my
> mother yelling my name and footsteps pounding across the living
> room and dining room.  I went running in to see what was wrong
> with mom.  She explained that she went in to the bathroom to do
> her thing, sort of speak, and all of the sudden, a garden snake
> came out from behind the toilet.  I called my youngest son into
> the house and told him to go catch his snake and put him outside.
> Just think.  All that week that snake was loose, he could have
> come up stairs during the night and gotten in bed with me and
> Sandy.  Wouldn't that have been fun?
>
> Phil.
>
>
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