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Originally Posted by ch1
He was a curious researcher
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I've got a funny story. Years ago, there was a Cornell researcher who moved into our condo complex for the summer. He brought his college age daughter who was quite attractive, so naturally we made excuses to go to her house. Her dad was a really cool fellow and he was out there to collect rattle snakes to take him back to his lab at Cornell (we were in Tucson and he was working with people at the University of Arizona).
Anyway, one time he invited us over to play UNO (I think) and naturally we accepted since the daughter was going to be there.
We were playing at the kitchen table and only a few feet away was a cardboard box with a couple of windows with fine mesh cut into the box.
As we played UNO, at times it got pretty loud and we heard this rattling noise from the box. Yes, I was sitting about 5 feet from a box with two rattlers he had caught that day. We stayed and played, but anytime it got too loud, the snakes would let us know. Rattlesnakes can't hear, but these could feel the commotion somehow
And I do hope you get to experience Los Alamos and Northern New Mexico. Lovely place.