I Dance the Mamba (Get it?)

So I was getting ready for bed. I should have been asleep about half an hour before this, but I wasn't. I had just changed into pajamas (read: boxer shorts). It was time to brush my teeth, so I meandered out to the kitchen on my way to the bathroom.

I glanced at the floor, and wondered who put the rubber snake there.

Then I realized I am currently living alone.

Then I figured it probably wasn't really rubber.

At this point my whole body seized, and I got that electric tingle in the back of my neck that lets you know that the adrenaline is coming.

I decided it was a good time to put on some pants. Keeping my eye on the snake, I tossed on a pair of jeans, and started looking around my bedroom for a weapon. Unfortunately, Mr. Snake was chilling between me and my two machetes. Bummer.

My bedroom didn't have any weapons. Literally the most dangerous object in there was a plastic coat hanger. Except, and this is probably a miracle, a hammer.

Let's talk about the hammer. I had borrowed that hammer from the garage, because I wanted to experiment with using it to open coconuts. The claw for the outer shell, the head for the inner. I had actually finished using it for that, and decided a machete is better. Furthermore, I had looked at it and picked it up at one point with the intention of taking it back, but then I set it down, consciously, and I don't know why.

But there it was, my sole weapon in fighting off...

A Black Mamba snake.

I actually just found out that that's probably what it was. Black Mambas are one of the most venomous land snakes in the world. It's also possible that it was a black tree cobra, which is also venomous.

So I pretty much just started whacking at it. It moved away from me instead of attacking (which I'm pretty sure is insane, that's not really standard M.O. for venomous lizards, but I'll take what I can get) and I hit it a couple times in the body before finally finishing him off with a whack on the head.

As he oozed blood onto the floor, I thought about a Bible verse given to me by a friend on the day of my departure.

Luke 10:19- I have given you authority to trample snakes and scorpions and to overcome the power of the enemy, nothing will harm you.

Tomorrow we're going tubing down the river! Woo!