But when we lived in North Carolina, oh goodness, the pond across the road from us had water moccasins and big old snapping turtles...One morning I woke up, and liked to drink my coffee sitting in a lawn chair, in the front yard, and in my bare feet...I got out there, and sat down, and then heard this slight whisking of the grass...looked up, and there right beside me, was a junior snapping turtle, that big jawed unhinged, and he looked like he was going to bite me...
Well, I guess I screamed loud enough to wake the hubby and kids, who came running, fresh from bed, thinking I was being killed or something...They all had a good laugh when they saw me halfway up a tree, screaming and pointing at that little snapping turtle...
All the kids in the neighborhood knew how scared I was of snakes...one day, they drove up to my driveway, with a dead water moccasin tied to one kids bike...they had found this snake at the pond, and they thought, 'Hey, lets take it to Andys and Mikes mom, you know how scared she is of these things'...those kids got a big laugh out of that...then they had the nerve to ask me for a piece of cake...(I used to bake a cake a day, so it seems, during the summer, when all the kids were out of school...it was an sweet incentive to make them behave when they all came over)...
Me and snakes, and lizards and such just dont get along...