“...because women are smart enough to leave the damn things alone’.
I am PETRIFIED of snakes. Normally, I would run like crazy at a big worm. The only time I didn’t was when a black snake of some sort tried to get into the carport during a summer day. I threw things at it and it still kept coming. Long story short: I hit the thing on the head with a shovel. I had seen that on t.v and it always showed you could kill it with one hit. Must have been a weak day for me since I had to hit the thing like twenty times. My husband still laughs at that one since he had the job of snake removal.
I’m exactly the same way about cockroaches. Something in my reptile hindbrain just goes into total freakout panic mode when I see one of those things.