A middle-aged woman was sitting in her den when all of a sudden, a small black snake crawled across the floor and under the couch. The woman was deathly afraid of snakes, so she promptly ran to the bathroom to get her husband, who was taking a shower. The man of the house came running from the shower to the den with only a towel around his waist. The man took an old broom handle and began poking under the couch to retrieve the snake. …