Todd: So, how was your trip to Thailand?

Gloria: Oh, I spent about six weeks in Thailand and had a really, really great time. I spent three weeks in Northern Thailand and then three weeks on the beach in the southern part of Thailand but my last night I was packing up and I had a suitcase in the corner with the warm clothes from Northern Thailand and I saw something dark in the corner and I'm thinking, & quot; Oh, it's just some clothes that fell out of my suitcase so I reached out to grab the clothes and something dark rose up and spread out and it was the weirdest feeling because at the same time I felt like a hand grab me from behind and yanked me out of the cabin and I didn't feel any fear until I was in the middle of the clearing and I screamed twice and got everybody's attention, & quot;What? What? What? & quot; and I said & quot;snake & quot; and of course a few people started laughing, thinking, & quot;Oh, well, this little bitty green, harmless snake & quot; Ah, no big deal. So one of the little bitty Thai girls, walks into my cabin and she comes running out, & quot;Aah, snake! & quot; and so it was a black king cobra which is the most poisonous snake in the world and this is really kind of scary because my little brother had been killed by a snake and so it's frightening to me to think how close I came. After I left Thailand, two things happened: I found some photographs in which in the photographs that I took of my cabin you could see the snake crawling into my cabin and the other one is an e-mail from the owners of the resort that they found two more cobras underneath my bed.

Todd: Wow, oh man! So normally do they have king cobras on that part of the island?

Gloria: No, they don't. They say they may come in when they transport.. the building, they're making a lot of new buildings so they brought in wood from Northern Thailand and maybe it came in there. Also the envirorment's being upset and they're chopping down a lot of trees and they're finding more and more snakes that they didn't know were there.

Todd: Wow. Well, you're very lucky.

Gloria: Yeah, I've been told that.