Dr. Waddel the Snake Guy was in the library today. He’s a guy who teaches at one of the local colleges and has a collection of snakes. He showed and told about the snakes for the Summer Reading kids. I love his presentation style. He dumps the snakes out of the various plexiglass boxes he has for them and allows them to squirm around on the table while he talks. VERY distracting for the little kids, no? So I volunteered to hold two of the liveliest ones for him so he could finish his talk. I immediately had a flashback to art class in college and this chick:
Yes, those are boobies. No, I didn’t show mine, AND I was wearing blue, thank you very much.
The hardest thing about it was that I KNEW no one would get the reference. *sigh* It’s tough being overeducated.
The snakes were, on the whole, very sweet. This is probably because the library was pretty cold. They were fun to play with and the kids were very brave about coming around and picking them up and petting them. A very interesting experience for everyone.
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