On The Lam

Apparently, if you live in Boston it is OK to ride the subway with your snake.  I don't have a snake, and I don't live in Boston, and I don't ride the subway, so I've never thought about it.  However, now that I have, I find that perhaps peculiar if not disturbing.  I am a huge fan of "helper" dogs, and I get that they'd be invited aboard public transport.  I also saw a television special once on helper monkeys.  This would be a little more obscure, but I'd understand if one or another pocket-size monkey variety was perched on the metro seat beside me, although, they'd probably prefer to hang from the handrail.  This all points to what I am pretty sure I would not be OK with, and that is a 3 foot long boa constrictor curling up on the seat beside me.

Apparently, some lady in Boston lost (yes, LOST) her pet boa constrictor on the subway...for a month (yes, a MONTH).  OK, A) I'd say it's good that this lady is riding the subway because if she can misplace her boa constrictor, you know she can't keep tabs on car keys, but B) ummm, why?  To what avail exactly does one board the subway with one's boa constrictor and then deboard same said subway without one's boa constrictor?  And, C) what the hell is wrong with the rest of the Boston subway riding population that all bystanders simply watched a 3 foot boa constrictor slither away into the adjoining car?  The cold weather has apparently gone to these peoples' minds, and they've full-blown lost them, along with the snake.

The owner promised to pay more attention the next time she takes her snake out in public.  Really?  That's your comment when you make the news for losing your 3 foot long boa constrictor on the public transit system for a month?  This is why people who don't have kids shouldn't have kids and shouldn't have pets and shouldn't reside in large cities where they taint the overall intelligence of the surrounding population.  Done and done: if you own a 3 foot boa constrictor as a pet that you're inclined to losing, go live in a cave where that irresponsibility is more acceptable.  Poor snake.  I'd want to get away from this fool too.

Life sometimes can be on the lam.

Lam: –verb 

  getaway, break away, bunk, escape, fly the coop