My Fear and Loating of Snakes

I also don't like snakes, but most of all I fear them, and I don't think I would have killed the snake in that pool, given the chance I would have put as much distance as possible between that snake and me regardless of what type it was.

Eeww chilling stories. I hate snakes, as well. To me the only good snake is a dead snake, not original, but it's how I feel. I am still trying to figure out how to show my small son about snakes without transferring my fear to him. I want him to be wisely fearful of venomous snakes but to be aware of the good performed by non-venomous snakes . Hmmm...how to do that when I am terrified of any snake and scream like a sissy girl when I see them. LOL! I know about how to tell them apart....blah blah blah, but it still doesn't make them anymore attractive to me.

LOL, maybe it's the whole Garden of Eden thing? LOL! Snake=bad!;)

Thank God my brothers never played with them, that I know of. My mom said that, when my dad was little, he used to bring grass snakes to school and put them down girls dresses.

I don't think I would have killed the snake. I would have got my friend out and then we would both have had a day away from my house until someone could come and kill it for me. But then.....what it if it was no longer there and I would be wondering WHERE the heck it WAS? Hmm....you did the right thing obviously. Your logic prevailed over panic. I could only hope that I would have the courage.{{shudder}}

Hey RJ,

I loathe and fewar snakes as much as you do, and I really don't care what kind they are and I wouldn't be even trying to get it with a pool net or anything else, I'd be screaming all the way to the house and putting as much distance between myself and my newly found 'pet', and it would stay that way.

I know snakes are good for things like eating small rodents ie mice and chimpmunks and things that aren't good for your home but I'd rather have the chimpmunks than the snakes around.

I admire your bravado, I won't go near a snake with a 10 foot pole.

Mooch

upon reading your story, I must ponder the question "what about those good ol' trouser snakes?"

I always wondered where your fear of snakes came from. You've mentioned it a few times. I think that I would have been very angry with my brother for doing that to that poor girl, as opposed to being mad at the snakes - but, brothers are brothers, so it makes a certain kind of sense, actually. Much easier to be mad at the snakes.

You protected your weakened friend, rj, in the pool that day - that's where your 'bravado' came from. That's an honorable thing to have done. But how could you stand to kill it? I know you're a pacifist, so you must have really felt some serious hate for that snake to have been able to bring yourself to kill it. But a pygmy rattler! Wow, you were braver than you knew! Fine, it won't cause death, but severe pain and necrosis of the skin is pretty daunting.

I don't particularly fear snakes, although I sure wouldn't want to run into one in my house, or anywhere else, for that matter, except in a controlled environment, like a zoo, even a petting zoo would do. I've touched snakes in petting zoos and at reptilariums and they're soft and not at all like what you'd expect.

I think that I'd have to look at snakes sort of how I look at bees, who I'm allergic to. If I leave them alone, they'll probably leave me alone, and if I don't flail at them, they're not gonna sting me, unless of course I sit on one, or something like that. I think the only things of nature I really 'hate' are cockroaches and moths. The general bug category is NOT my favorite. Eeew, and water bugs, those big black ones, that come out in the summer, they used to be all over the sidewalks when I was a kid. But, as usual, there I go again, off topic...