Me and 3 buddies were mule deer hunting in NM one year. We were not having much luck and on about the 4th day one guy split off from the group trying to look over some new ground. Well, my other buddy killed a rattlesnake that afternoon. He first tried to scare me with it by putting it right at the back of the truck where I had to climb in. It was kind of getting dark and I was very tired. I stepped right over the thing and never noticed it. He was agrowl that his ruse did not work and threw the snake in the back of the truck.
Back at camp, the three of us who had rode together , got cleaned up in our cusrtom camp shower and then ate dinner. The shower was a neat custom built set up with a 12V bilge pump in a 5 gallon bucket. You heated the water on the fire or stove, put it in the bucket. We had a car battery to power the bilge pump and it was a sweet set up. This was all constructed in a small 3'x3'x6'tall tent called a privacy shelter. The shelter had a zipper in the middle of one of the sides from top to bottom.
Anyway, we get done eating dinner and it is getting pretty late. Just as we start to wonder if wwe are going to have to look for David, he comes straggling into camp. He had got somewhat lost and was totally tuckered out.
My buddy Joe tells David " Hey, we already took our showers and there is hot water waiting for you!"
David says "thanks" and immediately goes over, strips down and gets in the shower.
Now Joe was thinking the whole time about his little joke and not really trying to be nice to David. Joe slipped over to the shower and slid the snake under the bottom while David was washing his hair. We all sat back for a few seconds and then there was a blood curdling scream and the whole shower tent exploded as David went running off in his birthday suit.
Now I don't think I could have been so gracious, but after his heart rate fell back down to twice its normal rate and David figured out he had been played, he took it all very well and did not stay mad at us for too long.
To this day I still laugh my butt off evry time I remember this story. If I would have had it on video I'm pretty sure I could have won $100,000 on America's Funniest Home Videos!
Bisch