![]() The dream is a hint for your fairness and diplomacy in some matter. You are seeking more clarity and insight. You are rejecting someone who is showing interest in you. An unexpected incident will either provide you with joy or distress, depending on her attitude.ĭream About Little Snake denotes how you are doing well. The dream is a signal for your quest for order and peace. You have new responsibilities and duties that will require your time and attention.ĭream About Lots Snakes is a harbinger for advancement up the social ladder. Your dream points to your carelessness concerning your health. That’s beautiful.Lot and Little is an omen for infertility. And the three of us watch, mesmerized.Īnd the guy in the lead car smiles and says, “Wow. ![]() I’m at wit’s end.Īnd then as if on cue the snake slowly uncoils and slithers off the road, to the west, into the open space, toward the foothills where she belongs. I can’t compel the snake to move off the road. The guy in the lead car says, “Can we just go around on the shoulder?” Nevertheless, he’s doing his job, standing on the center line, waving his sign, and I’m in the southbound lane yelling at the snake, pounding my feet, waving my arms and the golf club thing. I’m an animal advocate, in case you didn’t already know. P robably because people are trying to read what is taped to it: A poster reading, “Would Jesus be killing prairie dogs today?” ![]() He grabs a large piece of cardboard from my open trunk and starts waving it. Oh, thank you! I ask him to try to warn the northbound traffic to slow down. “What can I do?”, he yells, his car pulled over on the shoulder behind mine. There would have had to have been more overlap, to avoid the arcing effect…Īnd then – a helper! Misery’s company. And me there, with barely controlled terror, trying to formulate thoughts. Looking back, I probably could have taped several more clubs together. To my left, curiosity slowing and occasional screeching tires.Ī foot closer. A slight prod of the snake with my flaccid implement. To my right, the cars coming to a stop in a long and growing line. “There’s a rattlesnake in the road.” Prairie Rattlesnake, Tom Spinkerĭeep breath. I approach warily.Ī northbound car slows. ![]() I wouldn’t believe they could jump, but I don’t know if I can outrun them. (According to the internet, rattlesnakes cannot jump, but they can lunge – about half the length of their bodies.) But it’s 1998, and I don’t know much about rattlesnakes. Yet he is willing to keep his car parked in the road while I attempt a rescue.īack at my Subaru, I hurriedly and ineffectively duct tape two golf clubs together. “There are lots of snakes”, his eventual rejoinder. “What is it?”, the driver of the lead car asks. The first car stops, and so do the cars behind it. I step into the southbound lane and wave my hands at the oncoming traffic. Today – with much more traffic and with much less patience among the commuting public – a person probably couldn’t get away with what I did next. Sick with the sudden reality of my situation. ![]() in Raising Arizona after knocking Leonard Smalls off his Harley. I immediately pull over and run over toward the snake, thankful for the lull in southbound traffic. She doesn’t welcome my approach. I am not one to not help an animal in distress. And then as I get closer the rope becomes a snake. I see a coiled up rope in the southbound lane. Still, the highway holds on to a bit of its wild feel, as it runs parallel to untrammeled foothills, with much of the in between land set aside as open space.īut this was 17 years ago, and I was on my way home, northbound on the two lane highway, in the valley south of the quarry… Highway 93 provided a relatively quick shot between the two, with just three stoplights (where now there are eight). At the time I had a half hour commute between my home in Boulder, Colorado, and my workplace in Golden. ![]()
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