by Maxine Headd

Created on: June 11, 2008   Last Updated: August 14, 2008

Virginia and the Snakes

I could not breathe right the first time that I heard this story told. The more that I listened, the more excited and rambunctious I became. You rarely hear a more exciting story from your very own family. Similar events like this one usually happen to other people that are not in your family. But it is a good story to tell. Allow me to tell you the story as it was when I first heard it told.

My sister Virginia, lived away out in the Country near Qulin, Missouri. She lived there on a small three acre farm that she and her husband had bought a few years back. She had a nice three bedroom home by herself, the only person there with her was her oldest son, Joseph. Her husband, Eddie was a truck driver, and was delivering goods elsewhere in the great USA. He was seldom at home. Joseph was outside in the back of the yard working on an old Chevrolet car. Virginia was taking notice that she was alone for the moment. So she decided to take a nice hot bath on that early saturday morning. Well, Virginia was enjoying a long hot soaking bath in her new and beautiful surround bathtub. She had been remodeling the new, but old bathroom. As a matter of fact, some of the ceiling boards were not in their rightful place in the ceiling of her bathroom. As it was, some of them were missing from their place in the ceiling of the bathroom that surrounded the bathtub.

Virginia heard something taking place in the upstairs of her bathroom attic. She was in the bathroom where she was getting ready for her bath. She didn't think it was anything unusual at all to hear rustling noises in the attic over her head. So she first thought the sounds were nothing but something in the air flow pipes from the furnace. She didn't think it was anything to worry about. She had been having some repairs done on her ceiling in the bathroom. Some parts of the ceiling boards weren't back in place yet. So she lay down inside the bathtub of hot water and just lay there. She was just enjoying herself and her special time alone immensely.

As she listened to the slight wiggly noises, happening quietly over her head, while she was taking a bath she wasn't really paying attention to them. She wasn't really worried about anything other than relaxing her head back and lying farther back in the bathtub. She had a full tub of nice hot soapy bubbles. And she was taking a little longer just enjoying her bath time. She heard some more faint sounds of rubbing noises over her head. As she listened

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