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:

:eek::eek::eek:

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.