The night a snail tried to break into my house....

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Hey everyone! I am using tonight to try and catch up with those I'm following as I'm so far behind. Right now I am reading a post by a very knowledgeable MyLotter known for his fascinating facts about Tidepool Critters, and this post was about snails. And it reminded me of the time a snail scared me. As silly as this sounds, I need you to try see this from my perspective because I'm not THAT fragile! This was when I was about 16 - 17 years old. I was going through a really rough time with a person in my life who was abusive towards me but pushing this aside, this story is something my dad still gets a kick out of. (he didn't know I was in this sort of relationship at this time by the way). So it was late at night, I was laying down in my bed and I could hear this weird sound coming from outside my window. And again, to touch base of what I said just above, I was in an abusive relationship which no one around me really knew about so I was already on edge. Also, just to add, this spawn of Satan was threatening to kill me and my family so yeah, as I was laying in my bed, I remember laying there in shock thinking it was my time to die. Morbid I know but this is how bad it was with that pr*ck. The sound reminded me of those glass cutters (not sure of the correct name, unless glass cutter is literally what they are called) but you know in movies when a robber is trying to cut glass and they stick that circle onto the glass and cut around it? One of those things. That's what this sound reminded me of and I thought someone was using one to open up my window. When I finally got the nerve to move I quickly ran to my dad and told him I could hear something right on my window outside! He came into my room, opened up my blinds and there it was....a snail....sliding ever so slowly down my window which was making that screechy, scratchy sound. Looking back at it now, I find it hilarious because I got worked up over a small (and slow!) creature.