I was at Via Via yesterday morning doing some work, and all of a sudden a waitress screamed and one of the guys swore loudly, and everybody around them jumped backwards in fright. I looked, and there was a bright green snake (about the size of a garter snake) slithering across the floor. These usually tres-cool dudes were acting super scared (there were plenty of girlie screams, though the boys later denied this), and then the owner, Joe, bashed in the snake's head with a 2-by-4. It was a poisonous green mambo snake.
The neat thing was that even though it was clearly dead (squished brains), its muscles were still alive, twitching and reacting to touch. One of the guys picked it up by the end and the tail coiled around his fingers even though the head hung limply. I held it too, and had my picture taken. Its tail stayed "alive" for at least 10 minutes. Science!
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That level of science is way cooler than your dead salmon science at the lake. But still just a tad bit creepy...
ReplyDeleteI can hardly wait for your pix!
ReplyDeleteYeah, that's the cool thing, all right.
ReplyDeleteRobin, it's your mom's friend, Barb, in Seattle, not smart enough to figure out how to be anything but anonymous. I've been meaning to read this for months, and now you are coming home.
ReplyDeleteIs *this* the Washington you refer to?