Well, if we are allow two true tales here's my second one!
My dh and I lived in our travel trailer for the first two years when we bought this property. I had him install a regular sized hot water heater and build a closet to house it against the outside of the trailer.
He had not sealed it well (obviously or I wouldn't have this tale to tell).
I was sitting at my computer. I had taken out a set of bunk beds and made that little area into my space for working online. There was a rail running around the wall where the top bunk had been.
I sat there one day working away. I had the sense that I was being watched. I kind of had a shiver up my spine, but thought there was no reason for that, so I kept on working.
All of a sudden out of my peripheral vision, I saw (what at the time seemed huge) something on the top shelf that I had placed above my computer. I looked up and there was a chicken snake laying partly on the rail and partly on the shelf. It was staring at me I think! It was about three feet long. The shelf was just above my monitor, so you can imagine how close it was to me.
I almost had a heart attack! I went out of the house screaming at the top of my lungs. I ran so darned fast that I must have set a record for a fat old lady.
My daughter went back inside and my husband came and searched. They couldn't find him. My dh went outside to have a look around and my daughter spotted him under the sink halfway outside. I couldn't believe it, but she caught it by the tail and held it until my dh opened up the hotwater closet and then killed the buger. We had chickens, so even though he was harmless to people, the snake needed to be gone.
Don't worry! I have a third tale to come later!!
I wish I could say no snakes were harmed in this tale, but that would be a lie. He was fat from eating eggs, and that was my eggs he was eating!
