LOUIS BURKE | Culture | CONTACT
A local nana has her next quarter sorted as the snake she found in her bathroom will be strategically stretched out to cover the three months worth of yarns.
Treating every day like it is a gift redeemable for crime dramas and game shows, Nana Yurt (84) of the Betoota Flight Path district often has to dig deep into her past to come up with a story worth sharing.
However, after recently calling her grandson, Wires and the police to deal with a snake she found in her bathroom, Nana Yurt is hoping to sell the rights to this story after trying it out on some test audiences.
“Thick as me arm it was,” Nana Yurt told our reporting team, perhaps embellishing a detail or two.
“It had a face just like a man’s and I kid you not, as I sat there with my knickers around me ankles it stood up and walked on its hind legs.”
Although the immediate threat of the snake has been dealt with, as a survivor of the Great Depression Nana Yurt is used to stretching out precious resources which includes the one interesting story she’s had in 15 years.
“I got in touch with the Wires lady, Carol her name is from the CWA, and she said it’s going to be hard to rehome the snake because it doesn’t want to leave the pillow case she’s kept it in.”
“She brings this snake out to the bush and it just won’t leave the pillow case. She’s even tried spraying some Glen 20 so it thinks it’s in my bathroom again but he just won’t move.”
“Bonnie from church reckons it might be the first snake. You know, the one from the first story who stung Eve with the forbidden fruit. Needless to say, I’ve been off apples ever since…”
