Oh what a day it was:

Green garden grass snakes can be dangerous. Yes, grass snakes, not just rattlesnakes.

Peter and Cindy, the couple whose apartment I had rented in Waikiki have a lot of potted plants, and since its been very windy the past few days, Cindy was bringing some of them indoors to protect them. It turned out that a little green garden grass snake was hidden in one of the plants and when it had warmed up, it slithered out and Cindy saw it go under the sofa. She let out a very loud scream.

Peter, who was taking a shower, ran out into the living room naked to see what the problem was. Cindy told him there was a snake under the sofa so Peter got down on the floor on his hands and knees to look for it. About that time the family dog Benji came and cold nosed Peter on the rear. Peter thought the snake had bitten him and he fainted.

Cindy thought Peter had a heart attack, so she called an ambulance. The attendants rushed in and loaded Peter on the stretcher and started carrying him out. About that time the snake came out from under the sofa and one of the Emergency Medical Technicians saw it and dropped his end of the stretcher.

That's when Peter broke his leg and had to be admitted in the hospital.

Cindy still had the problem of the snake in the house, so she called their neighbour George who agreed to help. George armed himself with a rolled-up newspaper and began poking under the couch. Since nothing happened George felt it was gone and told the Cindy it was safe, who then sat down on the sofa in relief.

But in relaxing, Cindy?s hand dangled in between the cushion where she felt the snake wriggling around. She screamed and fainted, the snake rushed back under the sofa, and George, seeing her passed out tried to use CPR to revive her.

Now George?s wife Ann, who had just returned from shopping at the grocery store, saw her husband's mouth on Cindy?s mouth and slammed her husband on the back of the head with a bag of canned goods, knocking George out and cutting his scalp to a point where it needed stitches.

So Ann had to call for an ambulance.

In the meantime all the noise woke Cindy from her dead faint and she saw George lying on the floor with Ann bending over him, so she assumed the snake had bitten him. Cindy went to the kitchen, brought back a small bottle of whiskey, and began pouring it down George?s throat.

By now the Honolulu police had arrived. They saw an unconscious George, smelled the whiskey, and assumed that a drunken fight had occurred. They were about to arrest them when Cindy explained how it all happened over a little green garden snake. By then the ambulance arrived and took George away accompanied by a sobbing Ann.

Just then the little snake crawled out from under the couch. One of the policemen drew his gun and fired at it. He missed the snake and hit the leg of the table that was on one side of the sofa. The table fell over and the lamp on it shattered and as the bulb broke, it started a fire in the drapes.

Another policeman tried to beat out the flames and fell through the window into the yard on top of the family dog Benji. The startled dog jumped up and raced out into the street, where an oncoming car swerved to avoid it and smashed into the parked police car.

Meanwhile, the burning drapes had spread to the walls and the entire house was blazing. Neighbors had called the fire department and the arriving fire truck started raising their ladder when they were halfway down the street. The rising ladder tore out the overhead wires and pulled out the electricity and disconnected telephones in a ten-square city block area.

Well its possible this could happen but not today since I wouldn't have been able to write my journal without the electricity and telephone connection

(This is a modified version of a story my friend had sent me).

It seems that no matter what i read of yours t, it's always well worth it! Thank you.