How would you like to find a
snake in you bath?
We had just moved into a new
house, which had been empty for so long thet everything was in a terrible mess.
Anna and I decided we would clean the bath first, so we set to, and turned on
the tap.
Suddenly to my horror, a
snake's head appeared in the plug hole. Then out slithered the rest of his long
thin body. He twisted and turned on the slippery bottom of the bath, spitting
and hissing at us
For an instant I stood there
quite paralyzed. Then I yelled for my husband, who luckily came running and
killed the snake with the handle of a broom. Anna, who was only three at the
time, was quite interested in the whole business. Indeed I had to pull her out
of the way or she'd probably have leant over the bath to get a better look.
We found out later that it
was a black mamba, a poisonous kind of snake. It had obviously been fast
asleep, curled up at the bottom of the nice warm water-pipe. It must have had
an awful shock when the cold water came trickling down! But nothing to the
shock I got! Ever since then I've always put the plug in firmly before running
the bath water.
