Big Black Lie

As time drug on, as it always does at stop lights, a longhaired rustic man banged on my window. I thought he looked homeless with his long scruffy beard, but he really drove the bus parked right next to me. Hesitantly cracking a sliver in the window just to make his voice audible, I heard him say, “Hey Lady, a huge snake just crawled in the front of your truck.” I sneered and told him he was crazy. As I sat there pondering over the logic to a snake crawling into a vehicle in the middle of the city, I gained more confidence that I had nothing to fear. Of course I called Animal Control just to be safe. I sat in the parking lot as my vehicle was inspected, expecting to prove the bum wrong. I found out real quickly that mangled and wrapped tightly around the engine was a five-foot pregnant black snake. Two days later I saw the driver of that bus parked near the front of my school. As I smiled and waved with thanks he just shook his head in disgust and looked away.