This Margarita came with a twist.
A snake fell from the ceiling of a Mexican restaurant and landed in a woman’s margarita, leaving her rattled.
Carletta Andrews told 8News that she had just finished dinner with her husband on April 16 at Patron Mexican Restaurant and Cantina in Sandston, Virginia, when she felt something hit her forehead.
“I looked at my husband like what was that,” Andrews explained, adding that she is “scarred” for life. “When I turned around, I saw the snake in my margarita.”
According to Andrews, the snake — a baby of an unknown species — began curling around the straw in her drink.
“I kept saying please do not let it go in my purse,” she recalled. “I left shaking, I was traumatized.” She has not said whether she plans to sue.
Restaurant employees rushed in, attempting to remove the snake with a stick. But another patron grabbed the snake and released it into the wild.
Andrews said the restaurant offered to move her to a booth, but she only wanted to go home.
Andrews wants to know how this happened and where the mama snake is.
“If that was the baby, I fear…” Is the mother there?
A spokesperson for Patron Mexican Restaurant and Cantina told 8News that the snake may have entered the ceiling through an air conditioning unit.
Last December, the eatery was cited for a number of violations, including mold, broken handles, missing ceiling tiles, cracked floor tiles throughout the kitchen, and leaky ceiling tiles, but each was resolved within six days.