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. 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 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!

 

[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!!!

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!!!

 

[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.

 

[snoopy]

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

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

 

[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

 

[nativetxn]

GEMMIE! I could have lived happily the rest of my life without that story. No more new coats for me