[homeschool mama]

You're hopeless. If it was a snake ready to bite you, you wouldn't believe it. Amazing.

[flyervet]

Dont' be ridiculous. If a snake was ready to bite me, I would move out of range. If someone told me a snake was ready to bite me, I would reflexively look around to find out if that were true and, if so, to figure out where the bugger was so I could avoid it. But if someone with a track record of saying things she didn't mean were to tell me that an invisible snake only she could see were about to bite me and insisted I take her word for it, I would be quite skeptical.