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A THREE DAY VACATION

            

 

 

 

NOW I'M GOING TO SAY A WORD THAT LOTS OF YOU DON'T LIKE.  THAT WORD IS … "SNAKE."  O'BOY I CAN SEE THAT A BUNCH OF PEOPLE DELETED MY STORY ALREADY.  WELL FOR THE REST OF YOU, I HAVE A LITTLE STORY I WANT TO TELL YOU.

 

 

WHEN I WAS IN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL I TOOK A CLASS CALLED BIOLOGY.  LET'S SEE, I MUST HAVE BEEN 12 OR 13 YEARS OLD AT THE TIME.  IN THIS CLASS WE HAD A GLASS AQUARIUM IN WHICH THE TEACHER HAD PUT SOME SAND AND A FEW HAND SIZED ROCKS.  THEN HE HAD PUT A LIZARD AND A SMALL TERRAPIN IN IT.  HE HAD HIS STUDENTS CATCH FLIES AND BUGS TO FEED THEM.

LIZARDS AND TERRAPINS DON'T DO MUCH FOR ME SO ONE DAY WHEN I WAS RIDING OUR NEIGHBOR'S HORSE IN THE WOODS BEHIND OUR HOUSE I FOUND SOMETHING THAT DID INTEREST ME. 

 

I WAS RIDING DOWN THROUGH THESE WOODS WHEN I CAME TO A LITTLE STREAM.  IT WASN'T MUCH OF A STREAM.  THERE WAS A TWO-FOOT SANDY STRIP AND A THREE-FOOT WIDE STREAM OF WATER.  IT WAS ONLY TWO OR THREE INCHES DEEP. 

AS I STARTED TO RIDE ACROSS IT MY HORSE BALKED.  HE WOULD NOT STEP DOWN ON THE SAND. 

 

NOW I SAID I WAS RIDING MY NEIGHBOR'S HORSE, BUT WHAT I DIDN'T SAY WAS MY NEIGHBOR DIDN'T KNOW IT.  THIS WAS JUST A VERY GENTLE HORSE THAT RAN LOOSE ON THE OIL COMPANY LEASE WHERE WE LIVED.  I COULD WALK UP TO HIM ANY TIME AND PUT MY BELT AROUND HIS NECK AND CRAWL ON HIS BACK AND RIDE HIM.  NO SADDLE OR REINS, BARE BACK AND JUST MY BELT AROUND HIS NECK TO GUIDE HIM BY.

 

AS I SAID HE BALKED AT CROSSING THIS STREAM SO I SLID DOWN OFF HIS BACK AND WAS GOING TO LEAD HIM ACROSS THE STREAM WITH MY BELT.  AS I GOT HIM CLOSE TO THE STREAM HE JERKED THE BELT OUT OF MY HAND AND RAN OFF.

 

I WAS BARE FOOTED SO I WAS GOING TO WADE ACROSS AND GO ON WITH MY ADVENTURE.  AS I STEPPED DOWN ON THE SAND I LOOKED DOWN AND JUMPED BACK.  NOW I SAW WHAT HAD SPOOKED THE HORSE. 

THERE WERE FOUR BABY COPPERHEAD SNAKES THERE ON THE SAND.  I REACHED DOWN AND CAUGHT ONE RIGHT BEHIND THE HEAD SO IT COULDN'T BITE ME.  NOW I WAS HOLDING A SNAKE WITH ONE HAND AND WITH THE OTHER HAND I WAS HOLDING UP MY PANTS.  ( REMEMBER THE HORSE HAD RUN OFF WITH MY BELT )

 

I DECIDED THE BEST THING TO DO WAS GO HOME AND PUT MY SNAKE IN A FRUIT JAR AND GET ANOTHER BELT.

OK WHEN I GOT HOME I PUT MY SNAKE IN A JAR AND THERE BY THE HOUSE WAS THAT SCAREDY CAT HORSE WITH MY BELT STILL AROUND HIS NECK.  I WALKED UP TO HIM AND GOT MY BELT BACK.

 

SO I HAD TO DECIDE WHAT TO DO WITH MY SNAKE.  THEN I HAD A BRILLIANT IDEA.  I WOULD TAKE IT TO SCHOOL AND PUT IT IN THE AQUARIUM WITH THE LIZARD AND THE TERRAPIN.  THIS WILL JUICE UP THE TEACHER'S LESSON ABOUT LIVING THINGS AND WHAT THEY EAT.

THE NEXT MONDAY MORNING WHEN I GOT TO SCHOOL NONE OF THE CLASSES HAD STARTED YET SO I TOOK MY SNAKE INTO THE BIOLOGY ROOM AND POURED IT IN THE AQUARIUM.  IT QUICKLY CRAWLED UNDER ONE OF THE ROCKS.  I SAT MY FRUIT JAR ON THE WINDOWSILL AND LEFT THE ROOM.  MY FIRST CLASS WAS ENGLISH BUT I COULD HARDLY WAIT FOR MY SECOND CLASS, BIOLOGY.

 

WHEN TIME CAME FOR MY BIOLOGY CLASS I RAN DOWN THE HALL TO GET TO THE ROOM AS QUICKLY AS I COULD.  WHEN I ENTERED THE ROOM I WENT STRAIGHT TO THE AQUARIUM TO LOOK FOR THE COPPERHEAD SNAKE.  I DIDN'T SEE IT.  IT MUST BE HIDING UNDER ONE OF THE ROCKS I THOUGHT. 

I PICKED UP ONE OF THE ROCKS BUT IT WASN'T UNDER THAT ONE.  I SET IT ON THE WINDOWSILL AND REACHED FOR ANOTHER ROCK.  JUST AS I LIFTED IT TWO THINGS HAPPENED.  FIRST THE SNAKE CRAWLED OUT WHERE I COULD SEE HIM.  SECOND THE TEACHER WALKED UP BEHIND ME TO SEE WHAT I WAS DOING.  THAT'S WHEN HE SAW THE COPPERHEAD SNAKE.

 

THEN TWO MORE THINGS HAPPENED.  FIRST THE TEACHER LET OUT A SCREAM AND TOLD ME TO GET MY HAND OUT OF THE AQUARIUM.  SECOND HE SCARED ME SO BAD I KNOCKED THE AQUARIUM OFF THE WINDOWSILL AND IT FELL TO THE FLOOR AND BROKE.

THE TEACHER HOLLERED SNAKE AND ALL THE KIDS SCATTERED LIKE A COVEY OF QUAIL.  I REACHED DOWN AND GRABBED THE SNAKE AND PUT IT BACK IN MY FRUIT JAR.  WHEN THE TEACHER GOT EVERYBODY SETTLED DOWN, HE ASKED ME WHERE THE SNAKE CAME FROM.

 

WELL I THOUGHT ABOUT LYING BUT I KNEW I WASN'T GOING TO GET OUT OF TROUBLE THAT WAY.  SO I TOLD HIM I HAD PUT IT IN THE AQUARIUM. 

 

WELL THE OUT COME OF ALL THIS WAS I GOT A THREE-DAY VACATION FROM SCHOOL. 

 

NOW WHAT I DID ON THAT VACATION IS A WHOLE NOTHER STORY FOR A DIFFERENT TIME

 

 

  BY LOREN MOORE

COPYRIGHT 2002

 

 

LOREN

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