Day 11: Confined Space, Naked, Blackout and a Snake..Not a Good Combination.

Since I'm working on finals, I thought today i'd share a short, but another embarrassing story.

One summer, my family decided to go to Mt. Desert Island, Maine to camp for three days. 
I think I was in 8th or 9th grade at the time.

As you might have read on Day 3 of my posting...I really like camping.

except one thing.

Taking a shower.

Now depending on what condition the bathroom is, I really don't mind it.

But I am most not certainly a fan of the kind of shower where its not completely closed off to the outdoors.

I'm just a pansy like that. Don't judge me.

I mean, who wouldn't be after this experience...

One night, I was sitting by the ocean with my family. My mom asked if I wanted to go the the showers with her. I said no, i'll take one later.

Later comes around, I'm thinking its time to get the smell of the ocean off me.

So I head off to the showers.

It was kind of run down. A single, flickering, fluorescent bulb, white washed concrete walls...

(Note: If the lights are flickering in the showers, try to find someone to change the bulb. Trust me.)

I didn't mind that...Unfortunately, it wasn't closed off from the outdoors. Damnit.

I keep thinking that a number of things can enter, insects, reptiles, mammals (including creepers) etc.

Well I took the last stall, thinking i'd be safe from any of those things.

(Note 2: Thats always a bad idea.you're too far from the exit to make a run from anything.)

You'll understand what I mean.

The first thing that I saw on my list was a daddy long legs crawl over from the next stall into mine. Those things scare the heck out of me.

With the lights flickering overhead, it was like a scene from some B-Rated horror movie.







                                     

I managed to throw water at it and watch it crawl away to the other side of wall.

Phew, crisis averted right? no..of course not..nature doesn't work like that for me.

Later on, it sent out a much, bigger... scalier foe.

I thought the lights were playing tricks on me

For a brief second, I thought it was a twig and the water from the shower was moving it.

And at that moment...the flickering light...decided to die completely.

 I kid you not.

                                      

and the next ten minutes or so seemed like an eternity.

A number of thoughts ran into my head.

I mean, It was a little, garden snake..BUT STILL..I don't like snakes, when i'm nude, in a confined space, in the dark.

If someone else was handling them and we were in a lighted room, sure, I don't mind them.
Heck, I don't mind touching those giant snakes.

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I didn't know what to do.

I was too scared to move at this point...I thought it would bite my feet or something.

I could have just rinsed myself off then go on with my snake-free life, but I thought that the flow of the water from the shower would divert the snakes path towards me..So I shut it off.

Suds and all still in my hair.

My clothes were on a stool behind the shower curtain. I thought i'll muster up the courage to put on my clothes, then just calmly walk out.

I feel around in the dark, where the stool should be.

They fell on the ground...

F*CK

The supposed path of the snake.

My mind thought: Ok, if the snake continued its trajectory around the stall, its more than likely to have gotten to my clothes...::cries::.

The last thing I wanted was to have a snake on me.
Alright, i'll wait it out. yea, it can't stay in here for too long right?

....then I felt something on my foot.

Maybe it was just my imagination. Maybe but it was water dripping from the showerhead...I didn't stay to find out.

I ran out, slipped, fell on my ass, got up, felt around for my clothes, and ran out to the doorway.

 There was enough light from an outdoor lamp for me to change. After calming myself down. I calmly went to the office to look for the woman who ran the place.

The woman changed the bulb and when I told her that there was a snake in there, she went back in to look for it while I stood outside.

Then I heard

After that, I resumed my shower, thoroughly checking the stall before doing so.

And since then, I never went to the showers by myself.