Yeah, well all the insect talk is jes' fine and dandy, but what about snakes?
Got any interesting snake stories? Hell, I do, after growing up on a farm in West Texas. Most have to do with Diamondback Rattlesnakes, but I've got a few regarding Water Moccasins from my creek-exploring days.
Once, heading out to my cabin on the P. River,
driving down an 8 1/2 mile gravel road, with my
wife, daughter, daughter in law, and granddaughter, we came upon a rattlesnake about seven feet long stretched across the roadway.
I slowed down and pulled up alondside it and it
immediately coiled, started rattling and assuming the position. I could barely get the girls to look out of the car's windows at the snake, safely a few feet below them! They kept hollering to drive on!
So with quick thinking I immediately threw open my door on the other side of the care and said I wanted to get a closer look.
In unison, they all shouted 'No!', 'Close the door', 'get back in'- so I reluctantly complied.
A few hundred feet down the road, I mentioned that I certainly hoped that the snake didn't
manage to get into the car while the door was opened.
Immediately, all feet came off the floorboards, followed by even more hollering!
What is it about women and snakes? Is it a Garden of Eden-kinda thing going on, or what?[}:D]
Eric The(Freud,even?)Hun