My Folly
‘Size of that lizard’ I shouted pointing at the medium sized black lizard sitting on a building site bag. Lauren stayed well back.
‘What’s wrong, bubba?’ I asked with only the slightest hint of mocking over my genuine concern, ‘look, it’s alright, it won’t get you.’
‘It’s not that,’ Lauren said, ‘look, lets just go?’
‘Hang on, I want to see it move,’ I reply, cockily leaning right over the thing.
‘Do you love me?’ Lauren asks, I nod, of course, ‘well if you did you would do as I ask and just go.’
I follow Lauren back up the hill, on the way she confides in me that about a foot above where I was looking at the lizard, the big, thick, dark tail of a snake nestled among the bags.
She’s great, my girlfriend.
Tags: Ko Tao, snakes, Thailand, Travel
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