[Salamander]

Ain’t no way I’d come on a forum full of “gutsy patriots” and admit that I’m terrified of ‘scary little critters’.

This place just blows my mind, sometimes.

So TEOTWAWKI comes, you’re hunkered silently in a foxhole, the enemy is nearby and the ‘strapping buck’ next to you shrieks like a girl because some spider or garter snake touches him.

Good God.
That’s just pitiful.

[Billthedrill]

So TEOTWAWKI comes, you’re hunkered silently in a foxhole, the enemy is nearby and the ‘strapping buck’ next to you shrieks like a girl because some spider or garter snake touches him.

It wasn't a snake, it was a spider, dang it.

And I only squealed a little.

[trisham]

We had a “former” US Marine working in our yard doing some landscaping a few years ago, when a large garter snake lunged out of the bushes and bit him, drawing blood. He laughed and went on working. He was a great guy.