UPDATE: SNAKES VS. HUMANS

They're still winning.

(Thanks to Andy the Tropic Hunt Guy)

Comments

[cyn]

yea! we're up.

[cyn]

ppfffttt!
DUH!

[Jillywilly]

I can understand burning a couch because you found snakes under it... I once sold a car simply because my dog threw up in the change holder. If I'd had access to matches, who knows what might have transpired.

[Aunt Nancy]

She had a couch on her PORCH? How did she protect it from getting wet and moldy? EEWWWW!!! No wonder there were snakes living in it. YUCK!!

[Bumble]

Of course the snakes are winning. I swear, you'd think people would have a little more common sense.

*re-reads comment*

Somebody help! I'm turning into my mother!

[Bumble's Mom]

The picture tells the whole story - the house really burned!!!!!

And yes Bumble, you are. Please stop.

[Bumble]

Ha-ha El. Very funny. :-)

[Sondra]

Aunt Nancy, lots of people in the south have couches on their Covered porches. It's a pleasant place to spend an evening. Neighbors, walking by, stop to visit.

As for how she got rid of the snakes:

Gee, who knew flames go UP? Duh.

[Amy]

When my twins were two years old, they were playing on the patio of my Upstate NY home.

I was out there supervising when I noticed, out of the corner of my eye, that a green snake had popped it's head out between the bricks.

It must've been fifty feet long, and that was just what was ABOVE ground.

I yelled, "OMG, it's a snake!" and the three of us went into Three Stooges mode, frantically elbowing each other through the back door.

Hayley screamed, "OMG, it's a snake!" at the top of her lungs, which, incidentally, was her first complete sentence.

[Punkin Poo]

Snakes are bad, but I'd be more scared of "Old Man Phifer up the road" or that scarey dentist with the giant cranium in the ad on the right. I wouldn't want any of them on my couch.

[Maud]

Amy - snork. You'll always have that memory to cherish, when she goes (or went) off to college, walks down the aisle, etc., of your little one's first sentence, "OMG, it's a snake!"

Re-enactments should provide excellent entertainment for grandchildren.

[Eleanor]

Off topic, but.....

Maud - warm enough for you today????

[Amy]

I save the most embarrassing re-enactments for their boyfriends. After all, what's a mother for?

[Aunt Nancy]

Sondra - Are the porches enclosed, or just covered? I mean, this sounded like your standard living room couch, not a metal or wicker made-for-outdoors "couch" with waterproof cushions. My Mom has an "outdoor" couch on her screened-in porch. It still gets wet but is made to withstand the elements. Maybe I'm dense (goes without saying?) but I'm not following the logic here. Assuming there is logic here.

[Amy]

El: Fancy meeting you here!

[Amy]

Nancy, I think we can safely assume this was a living room couch, tastefully planted on her front porch, surrounded by carefully chosen chochkas and complimentary throw pillows.

Not to mention an old, rusty car on the lawn.

*signals Sanford and Son theme song*

[Eleanor]

I'm also picturing one of those crocheted (sp?) throw things (a la Roseanne) over the back of it - with holes!

[Eleanor]

*waves just a friendly hi to Amy*

thinks to herself, this is my lucky day....

[gooberette]

Yum, charbroiled snakes. They taste like chicken ya know. Well...that's what I heard.

[Maud]

Eleanor: AAUUUUUGGGHHHHH!

OK, so it's not a hurricane, just heat and humidity. Personally, I'd prefer a hurricane...a nice, wet, cold hurricane (in which no-one gets hurt.) I don't have A/C so, to sum up, AAUUGGHHHH! (I hope you're bearing up.)

[TCK]

at least the dog was OK

[Stupendous Man]

I once observed some soldiers (not Americans) douse a rat with lighter fluid and set it on fire. It immediately ran into an ammunition bunker and set off a long and spectacular fireworks display.

[Y. B. Normal]

?sekans eb ot evah ti did yhW .sekanS

lamroN .B .Y---

[Aunt Nancy]

lamroN .B .Y--

.dehs loot eht ni ecnediser pu nekat ydaerla dah sknuks esuaceB

[Stupendous Man]

lamroN .B .Y--

.warts trohs eht werd sekans esuaceB

[cyn]

*KRONS*

[Wally Ballou]

As for a couch on the porch - where do YOU live? As Jeff Foxworthy says: "If your lawn furniture used to be your living room furniture..." [YMBAR]