Forgot to mention...

I always get tickled by the random animals that we find at the zoo that aren't in cages, lizards, frogs, random birds...silly I know but whatever.  Well yesterday I was less than amused by what I damn near rolled over near the ant eater exhibit.  I got within maybe 2-3 feet of a 6 foot snake that was laying in the concrete.  It scared the crap outa me that I screamed and backed up as fast as I could!  There was a family of 3 looking at the Ant eater and when the mom saw the snake she started running and screaming "there's a snake..HELP!!"  

All of this happened in the blink of an eye and with both me and the lady screaming the snake, I kid you not, Jumped, like WE SCARED IT, and slid back into the bush it came from.  Well when I got far enough away I turned around to see the snake come back outa hiding and about the time the Zoo Attendants turned to corner to come and check out the snake, the one person almost stepped on it.  They were busy talking to each other not even paying attention to where the snake might be and I was saying "there it is!!"  and when the idiot woman looked down she was within a foot of it and jumped backwards.  

The Zoo Guy was all "Oh it's just a Rat Snake, it's not venomous"  Like that was suppose to make me feel better...maybe if I had been bit, but it didn't help with the fear factor!!  

The snake scurried off into more bushes and wasn't seen again, but that was more of an encounter than I bargained for!!  Sheesh...I told you it's never a dull moment around me!