I DON'T LIKE SNAKES!!!!

This happened a while ago but I wanted to post it any way....


While I was watering the tropical's in the garden center (thinking about what I was going to make for dinner and things of that nature) one of the plants started to move. Or at least that was what I thought. I took a better look and saw a black snake slithering through the spath! I screamed dropped the watering wand and jumped about a foot in the air(all at the same time). The cashier asked if I was ok, I said no that I just saw a snake! She quickly ran over saying "Ooo Ooo where is it, I love snakes!" While she was asking I was trying to stay as far away from it and still turn off the water, as it was still on a spraying everywhere. I had just seen Billy(Store Manager), Marc(Assistant SM) and Frank(Department Head) a minute ago and asked her if they were still close by, they were. I scurried over to them and told them that we had a problem, (stretching out my arms to there full length in the approximate length of the snake.) a big slithering problem! They look like kids in a candy shop, Saying "Oh boy where is it!" (I don't understand why people think snakes are cool.) I unwillingly took them to it, well as close as I would get to it(about 15 feet) After about a minute of them scoping it out they then started to try and get it out. I backed up a little farther. Billy being the good country boy that he is after about five minutes of trying to find it's head reached in with a grabber and pulled it out dropping it to the floor. He then stood over top of it trying to cunningly pick it up by hand saying "alright now hold still, I'm not goin to hurt you". In one fell swoop he had it exclaiming "Wow that is a purtty big one, I'd say it's bout 4 or 5 feet." He then grabbed it's tail and escorted it out of the garden center through the parking lot and over the railing (on the other side was a 20 foot drop into a maze of ivy and over grown shrubs). Good riddens! I told him thank you and went back to watering, but with caution. I can deal with rats, mice, spiders, insects, bees, and birds they don't bother me. But I DON"T LIKE SNAKES!!! I never have I never will, they give me the heebie geebies. I still have the heebie geebies and will probably check under my covers and in the toilet for a wile until I forget (mostly).


I hope you get a chuckle out of this story as I do now looking back on the day. My reaction was quite funny if you can picture me doing this.