Episode 3 of the hive learners contest for week 122 got me to remember a funny but scary event that happened to me some years back when I still lived with my parents. It was a really scary experience, but I like to see it as funny because it was funny to me. So funny that it didn't make sense at the beginning because I could not believe what I saw staring at me. Remember when I said I almost burst into laughter on seeing a gun pointed at me, this case was worse because I literally laughed for the first two minutes until I saw oh boy this thing is no longer funny. To date, I still wonder what would have happened to me if I was actually attacked being the only one at home. The worst was that nobody came back until about 4 hours later.
It was one of those times when I came home from school for the holidays during my freshman year, my younger sister was still in boarding school, my parents had gone to work and my other siblings were in school, leaving me alone at home. I cleaned the whole house and decided to take a nap after taking my bath and eating. Since the house was big and my room was upstairs, it wouldn't be advisable for me to sleep in my room in case I needed to answer the doorbell. So I decided to take a nap in the living room. After some time I started feeling uncomfortable for no reason and opened my eyes only to see a snake staring at me from where I was sleeping.
It felt unreal for the first two minutes, I found myself just lying and looking at the snake with so much amazement. At one point it was funny to me trying to figure out what a snake would be doing in my living room. It wasn't until the snake hissed at me that I was like okay this is no joke, I'm actually in trouble right now. Since the snake was in front of me, I figured it wouldn't be wise to move forward. So I made a backflip and went for the nearest weapon of mass destruction I could come across. It was one of the legs of a centre table I was going to arrange back when I woke up. I observed the snake was struggling to move because of the tile, and I figured it was the perfect opportunity to strike before it reached the centre rug.
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It was clear that the snake was going to charge at me, but the tile was disrupting its movement. So instead I charged at it and went directly for the head. The snake was black, Long and thin, but it was not hard for me to miss. I ensured my first strike did fatal damage and the third strike finally killed it. I remember feeling like a hero having killed my first snake, so I put the dead snake at the front of the door of my house so my family would see my heroism when they returned. Indeed they were happy I killed it, but mostly happy I saw it because if it entered the house and no one knew, it could cause a lot of damage. This was my first kill, but being that our house was built in a developing area, it was common to see those snakes more often. After that day I killed three more before going back to school and for each, I felt more like a hero 😂.
THIS IS MY RESPONSE TO HIVE LEARNER'S PROMPT FOR WEEK 122 EPISODE 3
