I have some pigs that hang around the swamp and one in particular, who goes by the name of Roscoe, enjoys playing games while meandering through the sludge. I'll be sitting in my lawn chair at the edge of the swamp, nursing a beer, watching the animals, and Roscoe always tries to get my attention by swimming toward me and pretending he is something else.
Sometimes he tries to impress me with his hippopotamus impersonation, other times he pretends he's an alligator by putting himself a bit lower in the water, where only his eyes and ears are showing and swims toward me quickly, expecting me to gasp in horror and fall out of my chair as I scramble to escape, but I just take another sip on my beer and say, "Knock that alligator **** off, Roscoe, and go play with the other pigs."
He swims off and usually there is almost a human-like expression etched on his face, sometimes anger, sometimes rejection, other times sorrow.
Today he swam towards me pretending to be an enormous python. He just undulated through the water getting closer and closer, and I chuckled because it was a pretty damned good impersonation of a snake.
I took a sip of my beer and gave Roscoe the thumbs up.
He smiled.