Scared so bad I couldn't scream

[lolaburns]

I was out working in my flower beds this afternoon. I decided I wanted to dig up this ornamental grass plant to move to the back yard. I'm digging and fishing around trying to get it up then low and behold my hand touches a SNAKE. I was so freaked out I couldn't even scream. It was coiled up half sticking out from under a landscaping rock.

A snake. In my yard. Noooooo!

[katfco]

Oh, I hate snakes! Snakes and spiders. Do you know what kind it was?

[Faevantastic]

*shudders*

I would totally freak too.

[Regina Philange]

Ahhhhhh!!!

[devotchka]

Oh god, that's scary! I hate that feeling of being so scared I can't breathe/scream/etc. Sorry you had to go through that.

I recently read a story about a signing teacher in our area who has a 2yo nephew who lives in Arizona. His Mom was away from him for a bit and heard him screaming in the backyard when he was playing and saw that he his finger was bleeding and he was signing "snake" frantically. Apparently a baby rattlesnake bit him, eep! They rushed him to Children's hospital and gave him antivenom doses and he was fine, but if he hadn't signed "snake" he probably wouldn't have made it. Scared the shit out of me bc we have rattles in CA and I've seen a few of them while walking around. Eep!

[pippilongstocking]

Oh my that would scare me too! (And I live in Australia!) just for the recorded I haven't seen any snakes in the wild here and if I did I would freak out.

[TrudyCampbell]

O
M
G

[browneyedhunni85]

I would have died.

[rubber pants]

This happened to me when I was pruning our front bushes. I am still terrified to this day to do this daunting task every year. It was horrifying.

[monkeybabe]

I love snakes...

[lolaburns]

I called my city boy husband and he had no advice. Lol

So then, I called my dad 3,000 miles away and described it to him. I sprayed it with the hose so it stuck its head out. He said he was 99.9% sure it wasn't poisonous. The crazy thing is he had to kill a copperhead in their yard just last week! He walked out of his office and nearly stepped right on it.

I just checked on the snake. It's still there. I was brought up not to kill anything unless I'm going to eat it or it is dangerous. So I don't really want to kill it. I'm hoping my H can scoop it up with a shovel and put it in the yard of the house next door( it's abandoned). Gah! I have no clue why but I never imagined running into a snake in my New York yard!

[TrudyCampbell]

I am really still pretending there are no snakes in your area, lol. I grew up in that town and never saw a single snake!

[lolaburns]

I know Trudy that's what is blowing my mind! I never imagined! I'm currently sitting on the front stoop somewhat giggling at my H trying to catch it. It went into a patch of irises. Oh boy.

[laurack]

Omg!! I would freak out!

[lolaburns]

So DH came home and it was still there. Like two idiots we were out there with a shovel, flashlight and bucket. He moved the rock and It slithered off. We couldn't find it. How am I going to plant my flowers tomorrow so I'm not judged on my ugly flower beds ?! Lol

[heyjojo]

You...you... Touched it?
Aaaaggggjhhhhhhh :::faints:::

I'm still traumatized from the snake skin under my couch cushion incident from a couple months ago. Everyday I pretend like it didn't happen.

[bebeetmoi]

Eeeekkkkkkk noooooo!

[AndyCohen]

Aug 24, 2013 19:08:51 GMT -5 monkeybabe said:

I love snakes...

Hah, yup! I used to name the garden snakes when I was little and went and said hi to them every day. Now if this post was about a spider I would be having nightmares tonight. Fears are so weird...

[monkeybabe]

Aug 25, 2013 14:19:07 GMT -5 AndyCohen said:

Aug 24, 2013 19:08:51 GMT -5 monkeybabe said:

I love snakes...

Hah, yup! I used to name the garden snakes when I was little and went and said hi to them every day. Now if this post was about a spider I would be having nightmares tonight. Fears are so weird...

There's a picture of  6 year old me holding a garter snake. My fear is bees. I can handle spiders and snakes, but I can't do bees.

[formerlyllizzyb]

Ahhh that is so awful. I stepped on a garter snake barefoot in our backyard a couple of years ago and I was the same way--couldn't even scream. I hope you've recovered!