Oh, ha ha, you remembered! I still remember that little devil. No, the snake that got in my laundry room was much bigger, a full grown one. My little daughter was going through a period of telling big stories (you know how some little kids will do, she would say her big brother was running around the yard with no underwear because she thought the idea was funny and wanted to laugh, or she would tell us a man was walking down the road when there was no one just so she could see my paranoid husband jump up and start throwing a fit to know who it was) I was sitting at the computer when she came and said there was a snake at the door. Initially, I thought she was telling another story but something in her voice and that scared look told me I'd better get up and look. Sure enough, there was this snake about 3 ft long up near the ceiling around the doorframe.
EWWWWWW!!!
My husband (he may have left Brooklyn, NY but Brooklyn will never leave him) was freaking out and it was so big he didn't want to squish it so I got the pepper spray (same can I used on him, ha!...it's a long story) and went in there and this time the snake was on top of the metal utility cabinet. I stood back and sprayed and saw it coiling up and flopping around. I thought about shooting it but didn't want messy snake guts all over and holes in my wall. It didn't die (it was a she that apparently was in my laundry room to lay eggs because later we started finding baby snakes all around.
My husband is half blind but he actually did try to kill it with a shovel but it/she got away. I hope it won't be back. I am fairly sure it was just a chicken snake. I love nature and such but snakes need to stay away because I don't like them.
I do thank the ones who actually offered possible explanations about what my friend heard, they make a lot of sense. It is entirely possible it could be an urban legend and I can also see how a person could get an emotional response out of someone who is asked about something like that. I also wonder, if perhaps they were not just asked one question but a series of questions on the topic?
I know polygraphs are not admissible in court and are not all conclusive. But they do serve a purpose. I claim to be an atheist but I would be lying if I said I feel strongly there is no god. Truth is, I simply don't know.
I also don't think the negative connotations associated with the term atheist are fair. Atheist is not some dirty word but I have heard a lot of church people talk like it was. Even Joel Osteen welcomes atheists to his church. He kind of gets on my nerves but it is near impossible not to like him.
