Well, I Got My Halloween Scare, LOL

[TigerLilly]

Whew...that wasn't as bad as I thought it would be...I have to admit that I laugh about that myself even now. It happened over a year ago & I'm still a little traumatized, not from the snake, but from the rest of the incident!
It's nice to know there are other snake-lovers on here! I think that was the hardest part to get over in posting that. Didn't want to hear some negative comments (hope we arent being stalked...) from others that may not have taken it in the spirit in which it was posted!
And NO, NO NO, NO, NO...I do NOT check on them anymore right before I get in the shower~giving them their own room kind of took care of that...
Hope everyone has a wonderful day!

 

[Cetawin]

TigerLilly that is a memory you will chuckle over for many years. I have no problem with snakes (had a Boa growing up) but snakes need to be where they are supposed to be...not hanging out on shower curtains. LOL

 

[mom'sfolly]

Tiger Lily, I just have a new argument for my kids on why they cannot have a pet snake.

I could see myself doing something like that, but in my case it would probably involve neighbors because I tend to shower when no one else is at home.

 

[Laurajean]

My father has a massive fear of snakes. It's so odd too, because otherwise he's not afraid of ANYTHING. He was always so tough and rational when I was a kid, so to see him freak out about snakes was so funny.

If we were driving and he saw a dead (FLATTENED, clearly dead) snake in the road he would veer his car all the way to the other side of the road to avoid driving over it. My mother would say "What, are you afraid it's going to come back to life and come up through the floor boards of the truck??" Of course, this coming from the mother who sent me and my grandmother rolling into oncoming traffic over a spider in the car.

One time when I was a kid, maybe 11-ish, I waited until my father went to feed the pigs and then put a fake snake in the path where he would walk back. It's was so obviously fake, bright orange with silly eyes. I hid and watched as he walked back with the slop buckets, saw it, jumped as high as I've ever seen a man not in the olympics jump, and screamed like a woman. I was rolling with laughter.

He saw me and blurted out "You Little B****!" which is even funnier, because he never swore around me and certainly never called me any sort of name. So for him to be so freaked out to yell such a thing a little ol' me made it even more hilarious.

Another time, in my adulthood, he was visiting my house. I had a small koi pond that I kept pretty natural, so frogs and the like would move in on their own. He likes fish and used to come over and sit down by the pond and talk. We were chatting about the pond and my ex husband, not realizing the extent of my father's fear of snakes innocently said "Oh yeah, and a little garter snake moved in too". My father was sitting at our patio table which was a good 15 feet from the pond, but he jumped up so fast that he tipped over the entire patio table and his chair and RAN. He got halfway across my lawn before he finally slowed down and looked back at us wide eyed. My then husband was even more wide eyed, having never seen my father act like that.

 

[TigerLilly]

mom'sfolly :

Tiger Lily, I just have a new argument for my kids on why they cannot have a pet snake.

I could see myself doing something like that, but in my case it would probably involve neighbors because I tend to shower when no one else is at home.

Poor you...while this was going on I thought about having to call 911--all my neighbors work during the day...considering that in my current job I may come into contact with the emergency personnel at some point, that was NOT an option I was willing to take. And as for the neighbors...I'd just as soon die; they already caught me during an emergency situation in my footie pajamas! (No, the emergency wasnt insidethem--I had to run out of the house in them!)

LAURAJEAN--you'd better check in on the "irrational" thread...chicks with weapons are looking for you!​

 

[Laurajean]

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Hmmm, sounds like you should have someone to check on you. Or perhaps a support system? Do you have a trash guy? It's part of their job description to check you know?

 

[TigerLilly]

Since we just went to this fancy-schmancy automated garbage thingy where the truck has hydraulic arms to pick up the can & dump it, the only garbage man I have just drives the truck & doesn't get out of it...thank goodness!
Support system? The housemate is usually here when I am; not sure about when I'm sleeping (he may have a whole life going on that I don't know about...), so I guess he'd have to be my support system. There's my grown kids, but they only show up on holidays; or leave msgs if i don't answer the phone (j/k--they don't leave msgs! lol)...doesn't seem like much of a support system, but i can live with it. You can bet if I don't show up for work--THEY will come looking for me & it wont be pretty...

 

[Toast n Jelly]

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I also would not present both hands while checking them..

Ok. that's not funny cause it must have hurt. Glad that you're getting over "the rest of the incident" tho.