If you live in Florida — as I do — you might want to record a show on PBS tonight. It’s an episode of Nature called, simply, “Pythons.”
The New York Times reviews the show with: “They’re Big and Ready to Eat Florida.”
Being a Florida resident, I’ve had a few brushes with large, reticulated snakes (boa constrictors are here as well as pythons) but my friends have had worse.
Here’s a couple stories:
Story #1
When I worked in Boca, Iworked with a lovely girl who lived at home (Catholic Hispanic family) and so when her boyfriend would bring her home at night, they’d not turn on the porch light, but instead stay out there and canoodle for a few minutes.
So, she comes home one night with her boyfriend and they stop on the darkened porch. But before they can get to counting each other’s freckles, they hear a loud hissing. My friend thought her boyfriend, Joseph, had stepped on the family cat or one of the kittens it recently had, which stayedon the porch with Mama Cat.
“Look out for the kittens,” she said, as she turned and switched on the light. The light came on. But there was no cat or kittens to be found. Instead, a large, lumpy python was curled around her and Joseph’s feet. I bet they heard her screams up and down the block.
Story #2
I worked (at another place) with a lady who came home to find her caged bird gone and a snake curled up in the cage. The snake had heard her bird squawk from the next apartment, where it lived. The damned snake was smart enough to swim down through the toilet, through the plumbing, up through her toilet and go eat that bird.
My own stories aren’t nearly that exciting. I once found a dead (small) python or boa hanging from a tree in my yard after a hard freeze. It was hanging low enough to brush the top of my head as I walked by. And I once lived next door to a girl who had one of the damned things. I found that out when she left a note on the door saying: “My pet snake is missing. If you see him, please let me know. ” Oh, boy! I don’t know if she ever found it.
Anyway, “Pythons” should be a good show. There are tens of thousands of pythons living in Florida now, and it’s beyond nuisance in some localities.
If you have your own python stories, feel free to leave them in the comments.
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