Snake in my living room Update post #39

[kimmikayb]

Came home from soccer practice tonight and there is a snake in my living room. Ok, it was not a big snake (1 1/2') and not dangerous (bull snake) but I am deathly, deathly afraid of snakes. Anxiety attack and everything. DH is an hour from home. I can't get ahold of anyone. My DH tells me to get the kids and just go somewhere until he gets home and he'll get the snake out. WHAT and let the thing climb all over the house and possibly in some corner where I'll find it tomorrow cleaning???? So I have to stand guard over it with a broom and it attacks the broom and I'm close to passing out...throwing up....waiting for DH. WHO LAUGHS AT ME when he gets home because it's such a tiny snake. Now I have to worry about how it got in and what will I find tomorrow. I need a drink.

 

[Serena]

Aww, I'm glad it's taken care of.


You think that's bad. My mom and dad took my oldest, she was 3 at the time to my grandma's.

They were knocking on the door when Bri says, "that's a big worm grandma"

My mom and dad jump back into their truck. Leaving my child with the snake.

I should have took that as a warning of things to come.

 

[PattnFmly]

OMG that is so funny! I can relate! About a month ago, the kids were coloring at the kitchen table and I walk in the kitchen and one of my cats was laying on the floor beside a snake. Now the funny part is, I wasn't sure it was real! My DS's love those stupid plastic snakes/frogs/lizards etc but something told me it wasn't one of those! DS gets down on the floor next to it and pokes it with the eraser end of his pencil and jumps about 3 feet when it moves! The the cat puts his paw on the snake so it wouldn't go anywhere! I'm not exactly freaking, but I sure as heck wasn't picking it up with my hands! I took the pencil and a frying pan lid and flipped the snake into the lid and then carefully took it outside into the grass. Boy did it slink into the grass quickly! DH laughed at me for an hour, "its just a little grass snake..." Yeah, well he wasn't there to deal with it! Not sure where the cat found it, it must've slithered under the cellar door. Yikes!

 

[Servants of Evan]

If that snake was 1-1/2 inches long I would probably be okay. If it was 1-1/2 inches across you'd have a slight chance catching me slamming the "for sale" sign in the front yard as I was high-tailing it down the street!

 

[hentob]

I. Would. Die.

For real

 

[SleepyMom]

That would be my worst nightmare! Kudos to you for handling it so well

I have always warned my kids that if I see a snake they would likely be on their own, because I am sure my maternal instincts wouldn't kick in until I was long gone down the road. Thankfully we haven't had to put it to the test yet.

 

[Marseeya]

Why oh why oh why did I open this thread???????

 

[ilovepcot]

You've lived through my worst fear!

 

[ChrisnSteph]

What are you doing on the computer telling us?? Aren't you watching the snake? Do you know where he is? I would be standing on a table with one of my dh's shotguns! Snakes give my heebie jeebies the heebie jeebies!

 

[delswife]

I. Would. Die.

For real

I. would. move.

Seriously. Pack nothing, just go.

 

[LoveWDW]

As soon as it attacked the broom I'd be out of there.

We've had a couple snakes in the house. There was one in the garage that shook it's tail and rattled the bag it was sitting next to. I was trying to convince myself that it wasn't a rattlesnake when it went for the broom that I was trying to sweep it out with. I informed it that I was intimidated already and left it for my son to take out.

I was walking around the house a number of years ago and notice a 7 foot long section of hose in the yard, which I thought was odd, until it raised its head and looked at me. I backed away and went to get a neighbor to get rid of it, but it was gone by the time I got back. Black snakes are beneficial anyway.

 

[sajetto]

EEEEEEEEKK! I HATE snakes

There was one in my bedroom when I was in high school. I started screaming like crazy, my mom ran downstairs, looked at me like I was a moron and then picked it up with the end of the broom and took it outside. I was FLOORED.

 

[Aidensmom]

Compared to how I would have reacted, I say you were very calm, cool, and collected!

I would have been screaming, would have made my son hide in his room, and I too would have been standing guard making sure it didn't go anywhere!

 

[icebrat001]

Came home from soccer practice tonight and there is a snake in my living room. Ok, it was not a big snake (1 1/2') and not dangerous (bull snake) but I am deathly, deathly afraid of snakes. Anxiety attack and everything. DH is an hour from home. I can't get ahold of anyone. My DH tells me to get the kids and just go somewhere until he gets home and he'll get the snake out. WHAT and let the thing climb all over the house and possibly in some corner where I'll find it tomorrow cleaning???? So I have to stand guard over it with a broom and it attacks the broom and I'm close to passing out...throwing up....waiting for DH. WHO LAUGHS AT ME when he gets home because it's such a tiny snake. Now I have to worry about how it got in and what will I find tomorrow. I need a drink.

 

[DisneyMomx7]

DH and I both have an irrational fear of snakes.

We would have had to move.

Unless I died first when I saw it!

 

[daisyduck123]

I would have called a neighbor to come get the snake.

I've called neighbors as late as 11:00 p.m. if DH wasn't home, to come get spiders, a bee, & one time...a mouse in the basement

But A SNAKE.....I'd have called a neighbor to get him out...& then taken the kids & went to my mothers...not sure when to return!

 

[dizneenut]

OMG, that is my worst fear. I would've totally freaked out.

 

[minkydog]

Oh my god, I need a drink just reading this

 

[jonestavern]

That would be my worst nightmare! Kudos to you for handling it so well

I have always warned my kids that if I see a snake they would likely be on their own, because I am sure my maternal instincts wouldn't kick in until I was long gone down the road. Thankfully we haven't had to put it to the test yet.

Our kitchen is being re-done. House 225 + years old, earth cellar.
DH & DS in Ireland until 1st week of May.
Dog is a wuss.
I am a bigger wuss.
Floorboards have been moved. I have stuffed gaps with insulation--how long can I hold out???
Winter's passing, sure those slithery suckers are waking...
Spiders will be breeding...
Last week I asked our police chief if he made critter calls
I'll let ya know--I hope not!

Jean

 

[Marseeya]

Dog is a wuss.

Jean

See, that's where I'm lucky. My doggie takes care of all the critters that break into our house, and has from the time she was a puppy! Shortly after we first got her, we lived in a house that was overrun by bats and she killed one that we just couldn't catch. She's a terrific mouser, and I have no doubt she'd get a snake too.

That dog is a pain in the butt, but she makes me feel safe.