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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I'm really afraid of them. When I first moved in with my wife she had 2 cats. I hate cats. Anyway, I had a dream where one of the cats, Mavis, was trapped in a field full of snakes and I bravely walked in and rescued her. wifey knew then that I must love her to do that for her cat.
AON- I went to visit a client in Asheville NC. the company had relocated from Mi. Anyway we went golfing and these guys were telling stories of seeing Mocassins in the ponds, having rallte snakes cross the cart path in front of them and all over the woods. Why would you golf in the south? I didn't even try to find any balls in the woods.
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The copperhead incident happened when I was ten. I was running outside around twilight in bare feet and stepped on one. Fortunately, I felt it and managed to teleport to the porch before it bit me, but I didn't go outside for the rest of the summer.
I've probably encountered a good dozen snakes in the wild since then--all triggering teleportation--but most terrifying was when I was at my family's ranch maybe five few years back. I was in the kitchen, and I looked up to see a seven foot black snake slithering
down the kitchen window. I couldn't tell which side of the glass it was on. I screamed like there was no tomorrow and jumped on my mother's back when she came in to see what the ruckus was all about. My dad ran out with a hoe and there are still divot marks on the porch from where he and the snake did battle. Turns out that there was a bird's nest on the ledge above the window and the snake crawled up there to have some lunch.
Friend of mine whose ranch is outside of Dallas heard something during dinner, told his wife not to move, got a gun, and shot a bunch of times under the dinng room table. Killed a rattlesnake and put a lot of holes in his floor.
I'm totally not going to sleep next week.
