Yep, you guessed it.They were riding their bikes through the neighborhood when they spotted the reptile slithering across the road. Ignoring their mother's advice about "don't talk to strangers" they asked a woman in a nearby yard if she had a box they could put the snake in to carry it home.
At first I didn't believe them when they came running into the circle (having left their bikes at woman with the box's house) screaming, "Guess what! Guess what! We caught a snake!"
Of course, you know the next question: "Can we keep him mom, pleeeeeeeeeease?"
Fortunately, our neighbor works at a reptile store and is a snake expert.
He told us all about how this snake will grow to be 3 feet long, how it will eat a gold fish a day, and how its eyes will turn blue when it is about to shed its skin. He even had a spare cage in his garage that was not being used by any of his 10 snakes.
So now we have a snake named Frank living in Christopher's room. If the snake ever escapes its cage, I will need a place to live until it is found and returned to its cage.
Oh no they didn't.
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