I Must Have Missed the Memo

[banging on door] "MAINTENANCE!!"

Sam: [stumbles out of room, still groggy] Hello?
Maintenance man: Hi, we're here to check out your stove and take care of the snake.
Sam: Umm, what!?
Maintenance man: We got a call about a snake.
Sam: [stunned silence for 5 seconds] PETE!! We have a snake in our house!?
Pete: Oh, yeah, but Animal Control came and took care of it.
Sam: Oh.

I guess my housemates decided it wasn't necessary to tell me that we had a snake in our house. On the bright side, maybe that's why nobody has seen a rat in a while. Hooray for natural predators!