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?
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!!
Geeze, PHJ-- they look the same to me, just different lighting! Hope that was a once-in-a-lifetime, wolf.
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"
Im suprized there are No Glock Holes in the Floor !!!
she just hasn't told us about them yet! :D
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:
I like the cat-like reflexes. All those years wrestling with nutters has paid off!
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.
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!
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.
Snake means momwolf is peaceful ...but ready to strike! ;)
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.:rolleyes:
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.
I didn't think shrieking, "There's a snake in my apartment" to an answering machine in the rental office would be effective.
Did it look like this one? :greenface
... and probably under 7 inches long, although at the time he seemed much larger than that.
Definately a killer Anaconda...
Yes, my initial impression was very much like those last two. Monster from a late night horror movie it was!!
(despite it's minuscule size, it did have a surprising amount of strength as it was wrapping itself around my finger and trying to bite me)
While I am not frightened of snakes, I'm not terribly partial to them, either. This can be inconvenient at times when I'm at TF's since her snakes tend to get loose with disturbing regularity.
See, now I really can't sleep.
I've become convinced that this incident was like that first scene in a horror movie ... you know, where the guy is less than kind to a small member of some species and then the big one comes and chases him for the next 85 minutes and then eats him and takes over the world?
we had a corn snake named 'slim' that looked exactly like the pic you posted wolf.
they're extra cuddly and nice.
don't get askeered.
Is your condo out in the woods, Wolf?
So next time Momwolf bitches about coming home, before the doctor says it's ok, you'll have an ace in the hole. :haha:
I didn't think shrieking, "There's a snake in my apartment" to an answering machine in the rental office would be effective.
Probably not, but I think you should have done it anyway. Worth a :lol: or two for the poor sap who has to listen to the messages.
Downunda, there are so many snakes that are bloody deadly it is just safer to presume any given snake is a killer. As for the glock solution, you'd have to be a very good shot. I know a lass whose father used a 12-gauge shotgun on a king brown that was in the flower garden. It works.
I applaud you for wearing gloves. Most people who get bitten, get bitten because they were attacking or otherwise trying to deal with a snake while not adequately equipped.
Sleep well, Wolf, but remember... snakes are attracted to warmth.
Aw Wolf. Like Sky, I appreciate the horror of the situation, but had a bloody good laugh at your write-up anyway.
I'm also most impressed at your gung ho attititude.
I have no personal dislike of snakes, but their reality in my inner sanctum, coupled with the awareness that they can do serious damage, is likely to have rendered me incapable of action. My first move would have been to grab my mobile phone and then exit the flat, wondering who on my phone list would be kind enough never to tease me, while being macho enough to save me...
People have been afraid of snakes from Day One. There's something unnatural about something that slithers, can remain motionless for hours or even days, has a good chance of being poisonous and capable of blinding speed.
I recall one incident at high school where I tired of my books being stolen in gym class, so I captured a snake (harmless one), placed it in a valise and left it for the thief to find. The shriek was unearthly!
The interesting thing about that snake is it's defense mechanism. It rears up, spreads a hood like a cobra and sways back and forth. Of course, if you call it's bluff, it then tries to play dead since it's main food is toads and salamanders. But the way to tell it from a cobra is to look closely at it's "face". It has a blunt nose as compared to the cobra's pointed one. They don't call it the
Eastern Hognose for nothing. Cobras are not native to the US but you'd have to know that first.
Who is that brave?
Not my thief.
He levitated up on top of lockers and stayed there.
Not the rest of the class, who went to investigate the noise. They ran out like the place was on fire. Nope. Just me lil ole me strolled in and took control.
I went in, knowing I'd found my thief at last. I picked up the snake, dragged him down and frog-marched him to the principals office. He was not amused and made me let the snake go. Two week suspension for that one, but it was worth being able to look the kid in the eye and say, "Next time it MIGHT be deadly!"
Never lost another book, calculator or personal belongings. Ever.
:lol::thumb: :lol2: :thumbsup: :notworthy
It just occurred to me what really strikes me about this thread; I would not have imagined Wolf as being afraid of anything.
I like snakes. My bro kept them when I was young. Though when cleo died mum said No More, because she'd had a habit of escaping and being found in random places around the house lol. I think ma thought she might find her wrapped round my neck one day.
Even though I really like snakes, I think I'd be proper freaked if I just found one in my house or hotel room. I get easily freaked by out of place things. Context matters. I like rats too, but i freak if they're in my house unexpectedly.
Cutest snakes I ever saw were iddy biddy baby garter snakes. They were my uncles. He must have only had them days when he passed away and my bro took them on. There were I think about 6 or 7 of them. Having been used to cleo wrapping her long python body around me, it was so damn cute to have a little baby snake doing the same thing on my index finger. Beautiful little things they were. Glistened like jewels.
snakes are harbingers of good luck.
here's to wolf's luck in the coming days!
It just occurred to me what really strikes me about this thread; I would not have imagined Wolf as being afraid of anything.
If it makes you feel any better about me, I didn't just panic and freeze, here. I hitched up my big girl panties (knickers to you) and dealt with it.
That makes me feel better about me, anyway.
I think I admitted to not being comfortable with spiders, too. And other icky bugs.
Thanks for the vote of confidence, though. That's quite nice.
Don't worry, the snake was probably just helping you get rid of the spiders ... or bats. ;)
So much for the philosophy of having guns in the house to protect yourself from invaders. Luckily, it wasn't a murdering rapist.:p :stickpoke:bolt:
Murdering rapist would have had two rounds center mass before he got his dick out.
That one I'm ready for.
At least it didn't have
a leg...
It just occurred to me what really strikes me about this thread; I would not have imagined Wolf as being afraid of anything.
One of the many reasons I idolise Wolf is that she does have fear, but she doesn't fall apart like a crean puff. That's real life bravery. I know she hates icky bugs because of my favourite ever Wolfpost, where the preying mantis feels the need for psychiatric health. I can't tell you how often I have read that one, and laughed every time (it's funnier than this one because Wolf acknowledges her lack of physical danger as opposed to her disgust in a wonderfully self-deprecating way.)
If it makes you feel any better about me, I didn't just panic and freeze, here. I hitched up my big girl panties (knickers to you) and dealt with it.
I still want to be on your team when it comes to the end of the world. I promise I'm working on something to make you feel the same about me. It's tricky with not knowing what the threat will be. And you being female and all. Maybe I should start practising your favourite dish...?
I would have squealed like a little girl and made Keryx deal with it. I only like snake BBQ.
We get a couple diamondbacks and one coral in our yard each and every year like clockwork. I think someone has it marked on their calendar to drop them off.
Cutest snakes I ever saw were iddy biddy baby garter snakes. They were my uncles.
oooh, that explains a lot!
;)
I used to think snakes were awesome.
But then I got bit by a Bull Snake. Summer of my junior year in high school, me and my Dad were hiking in Eastern Oregon.
I walk off trail to take a piss and suddenly I hear this low rattle right next to my leg. I look down and it's just sitting right there in it's little "I'm a gonna fuck you up" position, hissing and moving back and forth.
I'm sitting there for what seemed like hours, frozen, because this thing looks EXACTLY like a Diamondback. Right as I make my move to book it back to the trail, it bites the back of my leg, right in the calf.
So then I was like, well shit, I'm gonna die in the desert. Then we noticed that the bite didn't have puncture wounds, just bite marks that we're bleeding. It also wasn't swelling or anything like that. We still booked it back to the trail head and there was a park ranger there and told us that it was a Bullsnake (which are non-venomous) and we cleaned it and dressed it.
So I did not die in the desert..
But snakes are not some awesome in my book anymore...:headshake
I know she hates icky bugs because of my favourite ever Wolfpost, where the preying mantis feels the need for psychiatric health. I can't tell you how often I have read that one, and laughed every time (it's funnier than this one because Wolf acknowledges her lack of physical danger as opposed to her disgust in a wonderfully self-deprecating way.)
you tantalise us with a description and no linkie?
Murdering rapist would have had two rounds center mass before he got his dick out.
That one I'm ready for.
what about a NON murdering rapist? maybe a cold beer and a sammich after?
I still want to be on your team when it comes to the end of the world. I promise I'm working on something to make you feel the same about me. It's tricky with not knowing what the threat will be. And you being female and all. Maybe I should start practising your favourite dish...?
Don't even sweat it. I'm sure my favorite dish would be anything you made, just so long as there wasn't any coconut (allergy) or mushrooms (strong dislike) involved. You are absolutely on my end of the world team, in the event that I would be facing the end of the world in Britain, or you happened to be stopping over here for a visit at the time.
what about a NON murdering rapist? maybe a cold beer and a sammich after?
Well, cold beer and a sammich for me as I watch some CSI guy draw a chalk outline around the corpse. For the purposes of a report, they are ALL murdering rapists. Actually, I suppose that my goal would be that we would succeed at neither being a murderer nor a rapist. Or a necrophiliac, depending on his preferred order of operations.
I had a lizard of some sort jump onto my damn head. I'm sure it wasn't a poisonous one, but it freaked me out! Leaping Lizards!
One of the many reasons I idolise Wolf is that she does have fear, but she doesn't fall apart like a crean puff. That's real life bravery. I know she hates icky bugs because of my favourite ever Wolfpost, where the preying mantis feels the need for psychiatric health. I can't tell you how often I have read that one, and laughed every time (it's funnier than this one because Wolf acknowledges her lack of physical danger as opposed to her disgust in a wonderfully self-deprecating way.)
I still want to be on your team when it comes to the end of the world. I promise I'm working on something to make you feel the same about me. It's tricky with not knowing what the threat will be. And you being female and all. Maybe I should start practising your favourite dish...?
you tantalise us with a description and no linkie?
LINKIE [SIZE="1"](PLEASE!)[/SIZE]!
Go on then, don't say I don't spoil you.
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SNAAAAAAKE!!!!1
so you're saying the mushrooms came before the snake? :eyebrow:
Now you're making sport of my dislike of mushrooms.
typical. ;)
so you're saying the mushrooms came before the snake? :eyebrow:
Mushrooms are self-centered that way.
I was thinking the magic variety....
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Yes, that's exactly what it was like. Just like that.