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Old 09-15-2009, 08:47 PM   #1
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Why Did It Have to be Snake?

Okay, so I'm starting to calm down, but I just had a really bad moment here.

I'm in my living room, decided to head back to my bedroom, and I see something long lying on the floor in the hallway. My first thought was "I don't have any necklaces that look like that ..." then the motherfucker moved!

It was a snake.

I have never had to deal with a snake before.

I don't like snakes. You know, like Indiana Jones.

Snakes are icky.

Any attempts to convert me will be useless. At least I can look at them on TV. momwolf has to avert her eyes and screams to have the channel changed.

So I try to get a better look, although I'm being careful about doing so, since my feet are bare. Bastard slithers away, under my desk. I had to run back to the bedroom to get leather gloves, luckily he didn't go far. I banged on the desk, and although he poked his head out, he wouldn't come out from underneath the drawers. I had to move the desk to uncover him. I then did a Mutual of Omaha Wild Kingdom grab behind his head, got him too low down on the body and he started biting the glove. Grabbed him in a better place with my off hand.

I suspect we were both traumatized by that point.

I got him outside and tossed him into the grass, telling him not to come back.

It was red, black, and yellow, and probably under 7 inches long, although at the time he seemed much larger than that.

No, I didn't have the presence of mind to take pictures. I was too busy screaming like a girl and throwing him off the porch.

What I'm really worried about is where the heck did he come from, and did he bring friends?
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Old 09-15-2009, 08:55 PM   #2
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which pic does it most resemble? you have to worry about the coral snake but not the milk snake.....the milk snake is the first pic.....
sorry wolf, but that's funny!!
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Old 09-15-2009, 09:01 PM   #3
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Geeze, PHJ-- they look the same to me, just different lighting! Hope that was a once-in-a-lifetime, wolf.
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Old 09-15-2009, 09:08 PM   #4
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note the colors. red yellow black as opposed to red black yellow. as the saying goes "red on black: friend of jack, red to yellow: kill a fellow"
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Old 09-15-2009, 09:10 PM   #5
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Im suprized there are No Glock Holes in the Floor !!!
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Old 09-15-2009, 09:13 PM   #6
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she just hasn't told us about them yet!
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Old 09-15-2009, 09:15 PM   #7
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Before I grabbed the little bastard I checked the colors, knowing the whole red touch yellow rhyme ... I probably would have put it in a jar if I thought it was a Coral Snake, because they don't belong here AT ALL.

Might have been a Milk Snake or an Eastern Corn Snake. The markings didn't go all the way around.

I would have preferred a never-in-a-lifetime, Pie!

It kind of looked like this one:
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Old 09-15-2009, 09:15 PM   #8
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I like the cat-like reflexes. All those years wrestling with nutters has paid off!
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Old 09-15-2009, 09:18 PM   #9
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No, I didn't try to shoot it. I don't keep the shotgun loaded, and I only had time to grab a pair of gloves. I didn't want it wandering under something I couldn't move.

I can assure you, however, that for at least the next several days I'm going to be shaking my shoes out.
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Old 09-15-2009, 09:33 PM   #10
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I know it's not funny but the way you explained it was funny. I could just imagine the whole scene.

Snakes don't bother me but to find one in my house would and then to find one with colors! yikes. creepy!
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Old 09-15-2009, 09:35 PM   #11
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I am reflecting upon the spiritual message that Snake represents.

Might as well do something while I won't be able to sleep a wink.
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Old 09-15-2009, 09:37 PM   #12
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Snake means momwolf is peaceful ...but ready to strike!
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Old 09-15-2009, 09:40 PM   #13
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I don't blame you!

I hope you are able to rest at some point.

Just keep telling yourself that the snake was probably more scared of you.

It's hard to sound convincing in type.
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Old 09-15-2009, 09:47 PM   #14
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Old 09-15-2009, 09:51 PM   #15
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wow. you're brave! I would have been calling exterminators.

from a motel.

of course, we have rattlesnakes here, which -- no way would I mess with.
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