Inspired by Shep's snake tale, or tail, or sumpin'....do SNAKES give you the WILLIES?

[SideshowBob]

SideshowBob must admit that I am pretty open to all creatures... but those darn snakes give even me the "Willies"... er, um, not to be confused with the Sat Night Chat ICON !!!

Shortly after moving to Orlando from Chicago, a fact that Dan Murphy still breathes a sigh of relief about.... was in back yard of new house cleaning up a bit....

There was an old basket hanging off of a palm tree that SSB took down... looked like it had been there for AGES... well... when it hit the ground .... a HUGE snake came spilling out of it, WRITHING all over the ground... ACK!!!! Had SSB running like a schoolgirl that day also... haha! Truly a "Basket of Snake"!

These darn rascals are ALL OVER the place here.... kept finding dead baby snake after dead baby snake in my garage over a couple of months period... kept FEARING that SSB was going to run across the NEST one day... ack!

Nearly WRECKED the infamous blown up Camry the other night as swung OFF of the road to avoid hitting this MONSTER black snake that was crossing. Didn't want to kill it... but ALSO did not want that mysterious scenario to happen where the snake disappears and you wonder if it is up in your CAR!!!! ACK!!!

The best one, is one that lives in the shrubs just outside of the back porch area..... every now and again his or her HEAD will pop up "periscope like" from the shrubs... looking for lizards to attack. It ALWAYS makes SSB think of the "Loch Ness Monster"... and have to laugh each time....

So, beides QUEEN BUMBLE BEE BETZ ...

Snakes... Love Em, or Leave Em???? Any good "snake" stories?

[bsnyder]

Snakes are right up there with birds for me. Ugh!

[glo]

not my fave animal...though I know some who really hate them...lol

[browneyes]

I used to play with garter snakes when I was a kid. Snakes didn't bother me until one day I walked through the house and stepped on a cord I thought my dad forgot to put up (I was about 19 then). It wasn't a cord, the snake slithered away under my foot.:eek: It was a rat snake though. Still harmless, but about gave me a heartattack. If I see a snake I won't scamper away, but I won't rush up to one either.

[helenabear]

I might be odd :rolleyes: but I like snakes. I think most of them are really cute and they have such neat skin to touch.

[newmousecateer]

I absolutely hate snakes, even pictures of them. So I am now signing off this thread for good because I just know someone like Jason, not to mention names, will definately post a picture of a snake here!:p

[daughter_of_amid_chaos]

I hate snakes with a passion!!!
they scare the crap out of me.

[Kitty 34]

A friend I knew out in Colorado had a great story:

He was off hunting in the mountains, came across a rattler and shot it. He decided to take the "trophy" home with him so he coiled it up and put it under his seat in his truck.

On the way home, out of the mountains, he kept feeling a bug of some sort on his neck. When he finally got home, he reached under his seat and yup...you guessed it.....the snake was gone!!!:earseek: :earseek: :earseek:

The dead snake was not dead after all and was happily resting up on the back dash of his truck behind the drivers' seat! Ewwwww!



Gotta love a good snake story and SSB your's is hilarius!!!:p

[Blondie]

Snakes don't bother me much really.

I remember the boys always used to try and scare us girls with a garter snake, I was the one who wanted to hold it, while the others ran away shrieking!

[shep]

well, you know my story..I got a good ROFL out of yours...:)

[A kid at heart]

WE have a camp in the mountainous region of the state and we were up there one summer and I was out in front cooking on the grill when I heard this noise and it was a rattlesnake! lets just say I had to change my shorts. Thankfully my brother was able to kill it, but not before I got the you know what scared out of me!(Ok this is one of my most embarrassing moments)

[Sheree Bobbins]

Thank goodness, I live in a temperate climate. The only snakes I know about around here are garter snakes. I came across one on a bike ride into the countryside. I'd hate to have snakes in my yard.:eek:

[snoopy]

Yikes, between hearing this and seeing those awful "palmetto" bugs/huge cockroaches, I think maybe I need to rethink my move to Florida. :rolleyes:

Can't deal with snakes. I'm not one who is one with nature though, so if its not a cat or a dog, I'm pretty creeped out by it.

[Patrick IL.]

NO SNAKES!!!! I am not kidding, I do not like snakes:eek:

[debster812]

:shudder:

NO snakes, Thank you very much.

We have a garter snake(s) that like to sun it(them)selve on the bushes right beside the steps leading up to my deck. I cannot tell you how many times I have had the begeezus scared out of me by this critter.

Ewwwwwwwww

[doxdogy]

I am petrified of them. Don't care if it is harmless or not. A snake is a snake. DH calls me at work one day and said guess what I found in the house? With dogs, there is not telling what you will find. Well, one of the lovely doxies had killed a grass snake and brought in the house and was throwing it up in the air. Thankfully, he had come home for lunch and was able to remove it before I came home. Because he knew that I would have had a serious heart attack if I had seen it.

My older brother is more scared of them then am I. He told me that it comes from walking through the jungles of Vietnam. From what I gather they would drop out of trees and land on you or near you. One day he went hunting with my cousin. For some reason there was a vacuum cleaner hose in the woods. My cousin picked it up threw high in the air and yelled "Mike, look snake". Cousin told me it had five holes in it by the time it hit the ground.

[nativetxn]

I have such a snake phobia, I can't even look at an image of a snake...the Great Movie Ride provides me with a challenge every time I ride it. I'm pretty good about knowing when to close my eyes before I see all those snakes and Indiana Jones.

YUCK

[gemmie214]

In case anyone doesn't know this... Snakes FREAK me out. The thought of a nest of them makes we want to have a breakdown. I yell at the nature men on TV all the time things like "Are you completly NUTS put that lethal poisonous snake down and get the HECK away from it and get A DESK job!"
I don't know if this is true or not but it scared the bejeedus out of me. Years ago a woman was at a department store trying on coats. One coat scratched her arm she thought it was a leftover pin or something. Her arm Blue up she was feeling faint. She went to the hospital and told her she was bit by a snake. The coat was opened to and there were baby snakes in the lining.

I will never forget the Diser who posted that while she was on the computer a snake was looking in at her through the window. Why was that snake staring at her WHY?!?

[yepod]

SSB, add 'screaming like a little girl' for me!

I'm like Patrick, NO NO NO SNAKES:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

[nativetxn]

GEMMIE! I could have lived happily the rest of my life without that story. No more new coats for me http://www.wdwinfo.com/sites/family/errrr.gif

[TigH]

Oh, I love them!

I used to hate them, but some friends had a few snakes as pets and after handling the most gentle snake one day, I changed my mind about them.

Here is a good snake story - we lived in Calvert County, MD. Winter was ending and and I was raking leaves out of the flower beds. I found a snake that looked like a worm (turns out it was called a worm snake!) I didn't think it was dead, so I placed it on the deck in a sunny spot to see if it would warm up and wiggle away. I leave the deck and moments later hear DH say, "What's this?" I look up as he FLINGS this poor little snake into the woods (I'm sure it hit a tree). I searched and searched for it, but never found it. DH is cracking up because he had no idea I was trying to revive the poor little snake. When he was throwing it into the woods, I felt like I was watching it in slow motion. :(

We see tons of snakes here. When we're out walking, we see lots of little black snakes (and not so little ones) the occasional coral snake and I even saw a pygmy rattlesnake once.

I was out hanging the laundry a few weeks ago and saw a coral snake burrowing into the mulch not far from the clothesline. Needless to say that flowerbed is growing weeds like crazy and I don't plan to dig in there dirt there any time soon!

We were clearing out the wooded area in our back yard over the winter and my husband saw a very fat, not too long, snake in the leaf litter. It was a chilly day, so this guy was not moving at all. My husband said, "Hey, a snake!" and my sister, who was about 2 feet from him, screamed bloody murder and bounded out of the wooded area in about three steps (she must have covered 30 feet in nanoseconds).

Ok, SSB, you are probably sorry you started this thread now! ;)

[catsrule]

No, I like to pet them. :teeth:

Bugs give me the Willy's....yay for snakes that eat bugs!

[Serena]

Okay, most of ya'll know we have a couple snakes here. Here's as story that I told once already. lol

We went to the pet store and Brittany brings her snake with her. People offer to buy it all the time, it's got really good coloring and really healthy. She just smiles and says "no".
I finally drag the girls out of the pet store and decide to stop at Papa Johns to get a pizza to take home.
Me and Kelsea go in and we're in there about 30-45 minutes. When we get outside Brittany is frantically looking around the car. I've got a feeling I know what happened, but I ask anyway, hoping it's something else.
She fell asleep and Rio went on an adventure. I find him slitering into the ducts. I start calling anyone I could find to help, but no one really had a clue what I could do.
We drive home and finally dh gets home and starts taking my car apart, piece by piece. He's not happy btw. We find the part of the duct that Rio's hiding in he takes it apart and brings into the house. We try and dip one end in water, hoping the snake will come out.
Well, she didn't come out for a few days. She almost didn't make it. She had just eaten the day before and by the time she decided she wanted out, she was bigger. Her skin was damaged, but she made it. A couple sheds later she was fine.
And no, we don't bring into the car without a carrier now. You wanna see?

[NancyIL]

SSB...you must get lots of exercise from all that "running like a schoolgirl"! :p

Here's my snake story...I took a 3-week nature study course at the CMU Biological Station (Beaver Island, MI) one summer while I was in college. (I also lived in a tent for those 3 weeks!) Our classroom was a science lab, and there were various varmints in cages throughout - including snakes. I used to make a brown bag lunch and keep it in the refrigerator in the lab. The refrigerator was also shared by the snakes in the lab - because the cold air supposedly slowed down their movements! As far as I can tell - the snake(s) never bothered my bag lunches, and I was always quick to retrieve my lunch from the refrigerator each day!

I was much more afraid of bees - and was greatly annoyed by all the mosquitos that summer!

[gemmie214]

NO I do NOT wanna see ;)

[Serena]

:p ;)

[debster812]

Jana,

I was waiting for you to show up on this thread. lol.

I don't wanna see either :eek:

[The Godfather]

Was hoping for one or two "snake" pictures on this note...

[catsrule]

Godfather!

We're have you been? How are the kitties? Did you know they have a 'Cat Island' in the Bahamas?

[PandyPaws]

I hate snakes. I am absolutely PETRIFIED of snakes!!! http://www.wdwinfo.com/sites/family/eek.gif

Here's my snake encounter:

Years ago, I was working for a Mayflower Moving company, warehoused alongside some railroad tracks. I had gone into the bathroom, went about my business, and just ready to exit the room when a snake crawls (and I really hesitate to use the word crawl, this thing was FAST!) out from under a cabinet, across the floor (inches from my feet) and goes underneath the hot water tank....I was momentarily frozen in FEAR, then bolted for the door, turned the lock, pulled the door....and....it didnt open! http://www.wdwinfo.com/sites/family/eek.gif http://www.wdwinfo.com/sites/family/eek.gif http://www.wdwinfo.com/sites/family/eek.gif Now, with my panic level risen, I am pulling and tugging and then pounding on the door hoping the guys would hear me, heart pounding, ready to SCREAM my head off....then about to totally LOSE it, I put my shoulder into the door...and it FLEW open!! It is when I'm on the other side (about 20 feet away with momentum, LOL) that I remember :rolleyes: it was a door that opened outward, not inward like they usually do :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

I did not stick around to watch them retrieve this nasty critter and deposit it back outside :o

[Mamu]

Not a snake lover, but we can share the same yard as long as they know their place.

True snake story: DH was about 8 his brother 9. They had been hunting down snakes all day. Collected about 20. They put them in a brown papper bag and snuck them in the house. A while later they started fighting over the bag. Their mother became furious, grabbed the bag. Snakes went flying everywhere and so didn't their mother. I think they were grounded for a week and forbidded to collect snakes any more. After the snake incident they moved on to snapping turtles.

Good thing they didn't live in Florida they probably would have had a house full of gators.

[TigH]

Mamu,

I knew you were from MA when I read "and so didn't their mother". Cute story!!!

[julie_yet]

<font color=#0066FF>I kinda like snakes. They don't creep me out but I would be scared of getting bitten by one. I've handled them before and have actually thought about owning one.
I've seen my share of snakes at my grandmother's house way out in the boonies. I find them fascinating.

Here's my snake. An Albino Ball Python.

http://www.cuttingedgeherp.com/nss-folder/ballpythonpictures/si_UEw400_AlbBall.jpg

[Barb]

:eek: Not only do they give me the willies, they give me the heebie-jeebies, the creeps, the gross-outs, and anything else you can think of. I walk very fast through the reptile house at the zoo, taking care to never look in the windows! ugh! ack! yuck! ick!
"screaming like a little girl" doesn't even come close to descibing my opinion!

[Kermit]

I don't mind snakes. I give them their space, but I don't take off running. I like living here better than in Texas where I grew up because at least I know most of the snakes aren't poisonous. I do get scared when I'm hiking and come up to a rattlesnake.

[BabyLove99]

I hate snakes.................!!!!!!

[ahutton]

I've been afraid of them all my life. I was trying to get over the hyperventalating terrors watching Croc Hunter, and was doing okay. I could see them on TV and not have nightmares...

Then one afternoon we went to a large mall when DD was 6 months old. I'm pushing the stroller crossing from one store to another and less than 5 feet from me someone turn and has a 6+ foot snake similar to the one pictured above. I freaked.

Now we live in Texas, and I had to make an emergency 1a.m. pharmacy run. I came back and a garter snake was camped out on the neighbors doormat that I had to cross to get to our door. It took several minutes to get my courage up and once inside the house I had to scour the place to make sure he didn't follow me in.

Nope, LEAVE EM!