Date: 2005-06-14
From: US220, Troutville, VA - Comfort Inn

To: US220, Troutville, VA - Econolodge Inn
Miles today: 0.0

Zero day today. I rented the room for the night again. So, I welcomed Mr. Pink to stay for another night again. He seemed to be happy about it because he is experiencing a pain in his foot or ankle. So, we went out swimming in the pool. Relaxing outside and enjoy some beers. I was swimming when 5 locals came, and four of them are female. So, when Mr. Pink came, and he was thrilled to see them. I can tell that by his look. It was like he never seen women for so long time since we live in wilderness for too long. Once Mr. Pink jumped in the pool, the locals decide to leave. Probably too scared of us.   So few hours later, Mr. Pink is sleeping on patio chair while I was watching him sleeping, enjoying my beers and look around. Apparently, the same locals came in again. Same women. The splash that they created, had awaken Mr. Pink from his sleep. Wow, it was not too long before locals jumped in the pool, Mr. Pink jumped in the pool and chatted with them, played frisbee. The locals seemed to have good time with him. I decided not to join because I felt so relaxed on chair and some buzzes.   So, before night come, locals left and then it left me and Mr. Pink again. So, something happened at 11pm. Mr. Pink went inside the Inn and then came out with a surprising news. He told me that there was a snake upstair on 2nd floor. I quickly grabbed my digital camera and ran upstair. Mr. Pink followed me upstair and showed me the whereabout of the snake. What I found was three people standing near this snake. Two were hotel guests and a manager on duty. What I saw were a trash can, upside down iron board with legs half standing up and a stick pole in manager's hand. It apparently that they tried to squash the snake with iron board, tried to scoop it with trash can or tried to kill it with stick. When I walked and approached three men, yes three men standing beside this snake. In my mind, I say to myself, Tarazan of the Appalachian come to the rescue! I tried to find where the snake was, and it was so small. It is only about 6 inches long. And it came to my surprises that the snake survived, even with three men, iron board, trash can and even stick. I took a picture of it, and picked up the trash can and scooped it up. It took me about 2 quick seconds to scoop the snake up and it was caught in the trash can. I laughed after what three men looked like, and probably they were shocked because the problem was solved in only 2 seconds while they struggled for about 30 minutes with no options left. I quickly handed the trash can with snake in it, to Mr. Pink and I took the picture. So, after the picture was taken, I took the trash can and proceeding myself to outside to dump the live snake outside and send him back to the wilderness. The manager wrote down, I will be evicted if I don't hand him the trash can. I wondered why and then I handed him the trash can, but he managed to carry it because he was so scared of this 6 inches snake.   Let me describe this manager, named Henry. He have two earrings. One pierced to each ear. He is in about early 30's. He doesn't smile, even to the new customers. This shows to me that he tried to make us think he is tough-ass guy. One of the kind in the town. Actually, I am sorry to say this, 6 inches snake already exploited him. I just wished everybody saw him. So, I do actually think he is dumb as a box of rock.   The trash can he wanted, is the only reason that he wanted to kill the snake outside. I touched on his shoulder and said NO, don't kill thhe snake. He killed it anyway. So, Mr. Pink and I were evicted at around midnight becauses I touched the mananger. Normally, deaf people will need hearing people's attention by touching on the shoulder because if you yell or scream for this person, everybody would look at you. So, I can say names, so instead I need to tap on his shoulder while he was busy walking and killing the snake.   So after that, I packed my backpack, and Mr. Pink told me that I need to apology and probably that would change the manager's mind about eviction. So, I went downstair to talk with him, but nothing changed, instead he told me he called Deputy and they are coming down. So I waited, and it take only 5 minutes. The deputy told me that I have 30 minutes to pack and I said that 30 minutes will not be sufficient for my pack and stuff, which would take about 30 extra more minutes, so I was granted for 60 minutes of packing. I told deputy that I tried to protect the manager from killing the snake because some species of this reptiles are protected by federal laws, especially copperheads and rattlesnakes. I don't know what kind of the snake it was killed today but the body do look like copperhead. So, know what deputy said? We kill everything we see. Oh ok, I said and left to my room. A few minutes later, Mr. Pink disappeared and came back with good news. I was refunded for the night. So, Mr. Pink and I walked for only 1/2 miles to Econolodge and rented there. Mr. Pink told me that the manager there was surprised and said "what?!" when we arrived at the window, which is about 1 in the morning. I told Mr. Pink that he told have told her humorsly, that we were scared of snake in the dark so we decided to come here late. What a night!