Don't be so mean FL/GA.;-) Don't look HC.
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I was just poking fun at His Holiness. I guess I should just leave him alone. 😎
For much of my life I had a visceral reaction to the sight of any snake, and suspect HC does so. I blame mine on an event when I was just old enough to toddle on ahead of Mom as we got home with the groceries. I came around the corner of the house and saw something interesting, so I went to inspect it. Mom came around the corner and screamed at me to get away. That scared me so much that scene with the snake is still imprinted in my memory.
In recent years I can take a more logical approach. Or maybe it's just slow reflexes. This summer I waded some weeds to look at a point for possible GPS observation. I noticed a snake slithering away and really didn't have much reaction, except to wonder if I was hearing a timber rattler. Those used to occupy the area but are extremely rare around there now. I'm told other snakes can also make similar sounds.
My apologies to HC, you and others here with an aversion to snakes. I grew up in Florida and have always taken the position with snakes as, "you leave me alone, I leave you alone". In reality snakes are more afraid of you than you are them. 🙂
Bill93, post: 448464, member: 87 wrote: For much of my life I had a visceral reaction....
I can kinda relate...
Excluding my rebel youth, I've been a law-abiding productive member of society for the last fifty years. To this day I still get that "run" instinct when I look in my rear view mirror and see a cop car.
paden cash, post: 448467, member: 20 wrote: I can kinda relate...
Excluding my rebel youth, I've been a law-abiding productive member of society for the last fifty years. To this day I still get that "run" instinct when I look in my rear view mirror and see a cop car.
Just make sure your gas tank is full....
FL/GA PLS., post: 448465, member: 379 wrote: ...In reality snakes are more afraid of you than you are them. 🙂
I'm not buying it. If I happen on a 6' deadly black mamba in the woods there's no way he would soil his khakis and faint smooth away with fear. 😉
paden cash, post: 448467, member: 20 wrote: I can kinda relate...
Excluding my rebel youth, I've been a law-abiding productive member of society for the last fifty years. To this day I still get that "run" instinct when I look in my rear view mirror and see a cop car.
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paden cash, post: 448467, member: 20 wrote: To this day I still get that "run" instinct when I look in my rear view mirror and see a cop car.
Considering your "published" driving skills/escapades as a youth, I would think that outrunning the "Man" would be a piece of cake for you. 😉
paden cash, post: 448470, member: 20 wrote: If I happen on a 6' deadly black mamba in the woods
If you happen on a black mamba in Okiehomie you're hangin wit da Nun too much. 😉
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Robert Mitchum's early life story and how he made it into show-biz is a movie in itself.
FL/GA PLS., post: 448472, member: 379 wrote: Considering your "published" driving skills/escapades as a youth, I would think that outrunning the "Man" would be a piece of cake for you. 😉
I learned early on it's easy to out-run a traffic cop on a good scooter...but very difficult to outrun their radio. Trying it on 4 wheels is just plain stupid.
There is a motorcycle cop here in town I affectionately refer to as "fatso". They ride BMWs and on his bike he looks like a fat kid perched atop a 10 cent mechanical horse ride outside the grocery store. My house is only three blocks from the cop shop and I see him all the time. Most other bike riders give each other a nod, fatso won't wave back...
I've decided if he lights me up someday on my scooter I'm going to make him earn his stop. I wanna see how well he rides that 60K worth of scooter. Oh, I'll eventually pull over (and probably get cuffed and my bike impounded), but not until I make him really "ride" that thing trying to catch me.
One last "tango" for old Paden would feel pretty good. Reminds me of Mellencamp's song "I've been doin' it since I was young and I come up grinnin'...". 😉
[USER=20]@paden cash[/USER]
Sometimes Authority don't win. Make him ride, but have a GoPro strapped to the back of your head. 😉
paden cash, post: 448476, member: 20 wrote: ... on his bike he looks like a fat kid perched atop a 10 cent mechanical horse ride outside the grocery store.
That's awesome.
Steve
YYYYUUUUCCCCKKKK!!!!
Snakes and I do not see eye to eye on anything.
Probably goes back to the days when I was so small I was wearing those little red plastic boots that pretended to be big boy boots for us little tykes. Walking in the tall grass near the edge of our big pond (15 acres when flowing through the emergency spillway) I apparently startled a 200-lb, 17-foot long water snake. It spun around and struck at my ankle, twice, that was only protected by that red plastic boot. He shot into the water as I spun around running as best I could in the waist dee grass and weeds, yelling "GRANDMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Sometime later I stepped on another one of the same size and heritage which made him very mad. It made me very absent, very quickly.
You know, if you have nothing nice to say, you should say nothing. But, if it is on the subject matter, and it is for our divine bovine.. then it's ok to share it if you just thought it was nice!
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No, no, no,no,no
Nate that was awesome. Human ingenuity is remarkable. 😎
What is she is going to do with that snake? From the looks of her meat-cleaver-turned-machete and how carefully she washed off the snake, I think it might be headed for a hot skillet somewhere for a Jacuzzi with some tasty sesame oil and broccoli.
