When Trying To Be Helpful Goes Wrong

"I saw a snake the other day. It was a small snake, at the back of the complex. On a gray box near some bushes. I guess what I'm trying to say is, it wasn't close to me. But it looked like it might be a coral snake."

"You know how to tell the difference, right?"

"What?"

"Between a king snake and a coral snake?"

"No. I'm going to treat every snake like a coral snake, so it doesn't matter."

"No, you need to know. There's a mnemonic. You need to know it just in case."

"I don't need to know...I am just going to treat..."

"Red on black, friend of Jack......ermm....black on yellow, poisonous fellow. Wait, no. Red on black friend of Jack. Red on yellow, poisonous fellow. Yeah. That's it. I think...yeah, that's it."

"I'm just going to treat every snake like a coral snake."