SNAKE

As JoAnna & I & our kids were leaving my dad's swimming pool Friday, we noticed one of the cats was trying to catch something in the wooded area across from the house. I said, "What is that cat looking at?" JoAnna says, "There's a big a&# rattlesnake!" I say, "A rattlesnake? Here?" She says, "No, it isn't. But it is a big a#@ snake!" I put the van in park & went up to the house. I said, "Dad, there is a snake out here, right across the driveway." Rhonda, his wife, wasn't thrilled. She encountered a snake all coiled up in their kitchen a couple of months ago. I'm pretty sure that image still haunts her. I tell dad to go get a shovel. He decides he had something better & pulls out one of his golf clubs. In complete golf form, he pulls back & swings at the snake. Hmmm? If it were me, that club would have come up between my legs & I would have bludgeoned that snake to death. After dad teed off & hit the snake, it slivered off in to the woods. I looked at him & said, "Now you're the one who is going to have to tell her it is still alive."