User:JungleJargon

I have seen a cayman (alligator) run as fast as any lizard I ever saw move. I have seen a cornered light brown spider raise itslelf up on its hind legs and raise its front legs like it was going to attack me. I have seen a seven foot snake raise itself up and spread its neck out like a king cobra. I have seen a four inch snake with legs that it did not use. I have seen a frog hop on water. I have seen army ants on the move. I have seen the bushmaster snake several times in real life. I have swam with cayman aligators myself as a child. I did it in Florida too and one day I called it up to the surface and it came up looking straight at me. I used to grab baby alligators and put them into buckets with my friend and the mother alligator came after us one time. We grabbed whatever we could and took off running and laughing. We played with them a while and put them back. At night, we would go to where we swam with the alligators and we would see all their eyes shining back at us. We also would see sting rays where we would go swimming all the time. Every morning, we would have to empty our shoes before we put them on because scorpions sometimes hide in them. The North American fire ant sting is so weak it makes me laugh. I have seen thorns at least two feet long. I have seen the strongest fishing line snap like thread. I have been shocked by an electric eel, stuck by sticker fish, attacked by sucker fish and I've been bitten by many insects. I have seen florecent leaves on the jungle floor at night. I wrestled a large chameleon one time and got all scratched up. I was bitten by a rabid dog when I was three years old and I remember everything that happened. I got malaria. I got better. I held the record for the pen rocket that went the highest. I held the record for the paper airplane that went the farthest. I used to cry because I didn't get to do very much. I was captain of the winning field day team and out of the four teams, we were expected to lose. I have seen the sun rise and set at 6:00 Oclock all year around. I have seen the southern cross many times. I have seen brazil nuts fall from the trees. I have squeezed the milk out from fresh brazil nuts. I have tasted many exotic fruits and vegetables that you likely never heard of or knew existed. (you don't know what you are missing). I have spent an entire afternoon several times in a mango tree with a pocket knife. I have seen mini plagues with things such as grasshoppers, crickets, ground diggers, frogs and flying insects, sometimes all at once. I have heard the strangest noises when I stayed up late at night. I have seen the "peanut head" insect several times. I have seen the "alma de gato" bird and many others. I have seen what we dubbed the "microscopic monkeys" in the back yard through the kitchen window. I have swam with both kinds of piranhas. I was chased by a second rabid dog and the only thing that saved me from being bit again was that I was friends with another mutt dog that took off after it. At one point, there were four dogs going after it and one of them grabbed it by the neck and would have killed it if it was not called off. Then the jack-of-all-trades mechanic got a small guage shotgun with a slug and shot it on the open air basketball court and I could show you on google the exact location where it went down. I have dug ancient indian pottery out of the ground myself with painted designs on it. I have stood on the cliffs overlooking the river and seen huge six and seven foot fish swimming near the surface of the water. I have seem hundreds of the most beautiful sunrises and sunsets in the world. This all happened before I was seventeen with the exception of the alligator in Florida that I called to the surface and the one about the fishing line snapping like thread, I saw later but I had heard about it many times before. I also saw a negative of a photograph of a seven and a half foot freshwater fish that was caught. I wasn't around at the time when it was caught. I can't be there to see or know everything but I can see and know some of the things that happen in life.

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