Black Slime

Blog 50 …

    You are on your ‘happy-healthy jogging trail’ on a fresh morning one day.  The breeze wraps around your body and sweetly cools you.  Suddenly, a slimy, 5 or so foot-long black snake whips the solemn wind and bars your path.  The earth’s belly-footed creature throws you off path, and inside, you shout out a quiet scream.  It startles you and gets you frozen where you stand.  Fortunately, your brain still actively whirls; it searches for an action plan.  What must you do, or what could you do?  The secretive, though harmless black snake, after all, simply is going about its merry, natural outdoorsy way.  You decide to calm down, stay put, stand, and watch what it wants to do. The long, deep, black with white belly creature seemingly wants a way out on the other side of the road, down in the prairie grasses.  It moves quickly and darts away soon as you stomp your walking cane.  Consider yourself lucky that it decides to belly-run!  Others in its family are not so ‘sissy’ you know, and could or would attack if you get close.  A deadly, slimy predator may even jump at you, coil its body on you, squeeze you tightly and suffocate you before swallowing you whole!  Thank your lucky stars your encounter this day is just with that unassuming black with white-belly slime!  Now, take a deep breath, and resume your happy-healthy jog, but keep watching out where your feet take you!