I may speak parseltongue
Funny story!!!

So today, after I stained most of the deck...I was going out the backdoor to get some McDonalds because I was too tired to cook. Mom was following behind me. She goes back in the house to get dad a beer because he was still staining on the lattice (i think that's how it's spelled and I'm too lazy to look it up...)When I feel something moving by-past my foot. Mom shuts the back door, then I look down and there is a snake. I don't move. The snake turns it's head, looks at me and sticks it's tongue out and cocks it's head sideways and then decides to go on it's way. I scream....Jesus effing Mary of Christ! Mom yells HEY THAT'S ENOUGH OF THAT. I take off towards the deck and breath to my dad, "Snake with diamonds." He grabs a shovel that is by the deck! Thank god I didn't put it up earlier!!! And goes over to the flower bed to chase it out. I told him to wait, until I get out the gate. I'm behind him and the damn things comes back out towards me again. Dad is laughing. I'm about to piss my pants and the snake sticks it's tongue out at me again, also cocking it's head like it's being sassy with me again!! and goes on it's way out of the yard. Dad didn't kill it, because he was too busy laughing at how it kept tormenting me. It was like it liked me and just wanted to give me hell. Yeah, I'm not going outback again for a while.

Snakes in a cage is one thing! Snake slithering beside my bare feet is another. At least it wasn't like at the Gardens at the beach and it went on my foot. I had enough sense not to yell when it could have turn and bitten me! They sense motion. I couldn't tell if it was poisonous or not. I didn't get a chance to look at it's tail properly. I was more concerned by it's mouth, tongue and sassy cocking head. LMAO. It was funny...now. Not then but now. Guh!!! Maybe I should have tried talking to it in parseltongue, considering it acted like it knew me. That was mom's suggestion once we got in the van. Ha ha ha.