Thread by @RochelleADavis

I’ve never live tweeted anything before, but it is 1:40 am and there is a 3 foot long snake in my room and I’m not really sure what to do. #snake

It’s a black snake, there’s tons of them here. Just going after the mice. But I am for sure not going back to sleep.

A few things I do know: no f-Ing way am I able to make myself grab it. Just even contemplating that made me sweat.

I figured, watching the others who have wrassled the snakes around here, that I would find something to lift it up and just move it outside. So I armed myself with a plastic kids grabber and a cane. I’m thinking, I’m set.

Well snakey-poo is having none of it. I get my grabber thing within 1 foot of it and it shrinks back behind the books. Behind the dresser. Behind the plant.

I’d gone to bed sick to my stomach because of the #BreonnaTaylor news. And now I have a snake in my bedroom.

I do know that this snake wants to stay away from me, which is a good thing. But I think it is a shape shifter. I tried to guide it out the door (so close !) and it shrunk into /under the three bags I have next to the dresser. And I lifted them up and it is gone.

So close to getting it out the window. So close. And then it went down the giant plant to the other room.

So we are in the living room now. As it goes out of sight behind the chair, I peer around to see where it went. A mouse jumps out. Ok seriously snake? Couldn’t you you at least get what you came for? I’d be down for a little Nature Channel action. #countryliving #somanymice

Just tried to lift snakey with the cane. Thing jumped back faster than I thought possible. And I’m thinking almost anything is possible. It’s 2020, remember. #2020worstyear

I really don’t know what to do. There are no doors in this house. Snake is heading back in my sleeping space.

Snake wants to go under my bed. Not having that. Nope. It comes toward me (I’m on said bed). I show it the cane. It flicks its tongue at the cane, tasting it. Then essentially goes backwards. Constrictor snakes are so amazing. Still don’t want it in my bedroom.

The face-off. Snake and cane.

Now I’m essentially hostage.

So it went down the stairs and is back in the living room. I’m back in bed. There is no way I’m getting up in the dark to go to the bathroom. Ever again. And I’m pretty sure it’ll be back. Good time to write that chapter/read that book/finish the crossword🤣

Noon: Happy ending for the mice and me and the other humans in the house. Bro-in-law who seems to live to wrangle snakes came in and nabbed it. Feisty to the end. And now it has to make its home on the other side of the CT river. Happy outdoor hunting! #snakewrangling #snake

And throughout all this, there is a conspiracy of silence. The other inhabitants of the house might do drastic things if they knew of the snake fun house behind the dresser. Bro-in-law says #DONTTELLYOURMOTHERINLAWABOUTTWITTER