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Lostly (original poster member #43953) posted at 12:41 AM on Saturday, July 19th, 2014
I was walking this afternoon and trod on something rubbery, I looked down and it was a large SNAKE!! I was in SANDALS!!! Still a little freaked!!!
BW 48 - Multiple d-days
Divorced 2012 after 19 yrs
6 smart, beautiful, amazing kids.
I have finally found my voice and it is good!
Myname ( member #23138) posted at 12:47 AM on Saturday, July 19th, 2014
DD: 1-14-09 EA/PA OM #1
TT: 5-11&12-09
DD#2: 5-18-09 EA OM #2
5-31-09: Told me she hasn't loved me.
No kids
Me BH: 45
12-08-10: S
Divorced and moved on with my life.
Lyonesse ( member #32943) posted at 1:16 AM on Saturday, July 19th, 2014
That happened to me when I was about 6 y.o. and I still haven't gotten over it!!
Snakes. Yeesh.
Alyssamd24 ( member #39005) posted at 1:19 AM on Saturday, July 19th, 2014
For some reason there are a ton of snakes in our yard this summer (just little gardner snakes, nothing huge). There arent quite as many now as there had been....but a few weeks ago we would walk in our backyard and step on snakes quite frequently.
We even have a family living in my DD's sandbox!!! One day we opened it and found 5 snakes inside!!
Sometimes the worst thing that happens to you.....the thing you think you can't survive....its the thing that makes you better than you used to be.
h0peless ( member #36697) posted at 1:58 AM on Saturday, July 19th, 2014
I never stepped on one, but growing up in the middle of the desert, I had quite a few near misses with these guys:
tired girl ( member #28053) posted at 2:55 AM on Saturday, July 19th, 2014
I almost stepped on one of those hopeless, at night.
Me 47 Him 47 Hardlessons
DS 27,25,23
D Day's becoming less important as time moves on.
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." Eleanor Roosevelt
My bad for trying to locate remorse on your morality map. OITNB
JanaGreen ( member #29341) posted at 2:56 AM on Saturday, July 19th, 2014
I love you for using the word "trod."
tired girl ( member #28053) posted at 3:19 AM on Saturday, July 19th, 2014
A picture my son took
Me 47 Him 47 Hardlessons
DS 27,25,23
D Day's becoming less important as time moves on.
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." Eleanor Roosevelt
My bad for trying to locate remorse on your morality map. OITNB
Whalers11 ( member #27544) posted at 3:48 AM on Saturday, July 19th, 2014
I did this as a kid. Traumatic.
knutz ( member #28877) posted at 4:02 AM on Saturday, July 19th, 2014
Alyssamd24: Please say you live deep in the forest in the middle of Massachusetts -- OMG I would die if I saw one in my back yard -- even a dead one!!!! Even the pics are freaking me out.
Together 23 years
Married 20 Years
BW (me) 48
FWH: 49 (rSA)
2 children, 9 & 12
DDay: December 27, 2009
"Life is not what it is supposed to be. It is what it is. The way we cope with it is what makes the difference". Virginia Satir
wontdefineme ( member #31421) posted at 4:35 AM on Saturday, July 19th, 2014
In all my years in Australia I only saw a handful of snakes and only came a few feet away from a snake as a kid. I would have died. You must live way up north to see a snake this time of year.
Lostly (original poster member #43953) posted at 4:40 AM on Saturday, July 19th, 2014
I jumped so high!! I almost hyperventilated!! Then I ran home and grabbed my 17 yr old & 15 yr old to see if we could find it to take a picture, but it had gone either under our neighbors car or into their shed. I left them a note.
It looked like the snakes in the picture but without the rattle, so I am not sure what kind it was. It definitely had patterns all over. It was about 8-10cm (3-4")in diameter and about a meter (yard 1/2) long, if anyone has any idea? I didn't faze it in the least, even though my foot was still on it when I looked down. I'm still freaked... Eeeekkk...!!
Alyssamd24, I couldn't do a family of snakes anywhere near me....uggg!! I am in awe..
h0peless and tired girl cool pics. Hopefully taken with the biggest zoom lens known to mankind
BW 48 - Multiple d-days
Divorced 2012 after 19 yrs
6 smart, beautiful, amazing kids.
I have finally found my voice and it is good!
Wayflost ( member #41583) posted at 5:03 AM on Saturday, July 19th, 2014
Rattlers are super common where we live. So our dog went through "snake training." I'm so afraid of them it's the part of obedience training my dog aced on the first try! :D
"Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly."
Sad in AZ ( member #24239) posted at 6:49 AM on Saturday, July 19th, 2014
I've almost stepped on rattlers twice. One was torpid, as it was early on a cool morning, but the other was motivating across my path. I was walking in Saguaro National Park in Tucson and arguing on the phone with the X about who-knows-what.
It's amazing how well they camouflage themselves.
You are important and you matter. Your feelings matter. Your voice matters. Your story matters. Your life matters. Always.
Me: FBS (no longer betrayed nor a spouse)-63
D-day: 2007 (two years before finding SI)
S: 6/2010; D: 3/2011
Lostly (original poster member #43953) posted at 8:09 AM on Saturday, July 19th, 2014
That's super scary!! Did you here the rattle??
BW 48 - Multiple d-days
Divorced 2012 after 19 yrs
6 smart, beautiful, amazing kids.
I have finally found my voice and it is good!
Lostly (original poster member #43953) posted at 8:15 AM on Saturday, July 19th, 2014
wontdefineme, When I was a kid I almost ran over a tiger snake on my bike in Tazzie. Any smart Aussie has a healthy respect and fear of snakes!! And spiders. I still check my bed every night...my American kids think I'm crazy....!
BW 48 - Multiple d-days
Divorced 2012 after 19 yrs
6 smart, beautiful, amazing kids.
I have finally found my voice and it is good!
solus sto ( member #30989) posted at 2:52 PM on Saturday, July 19th, 2014
Ack!! I am glad you lived to tell, Lostly. I'm not snake phobic, but that presumes 100 percent remove of all snakes. All bets are off if I ever encounter one, save the odd pet ball python someone else's kid might possess.
Trac-Fone still tells the tale ("tale" being the operative word) of his near-miss while lawn mowing in Houston. Brilliant ruse for avoiding all lawn care thereafter. Positively brilliant.
The closest we came to a snake incident (and "close," it was not) was the morning when toddler DD, scampering out to find her Easter basket (indoors!) stepped on a gigantic visiting slug. (I have no idea wherefore a slug chose to ooze right on through our living room that day and none other, ever.)
That was 23 years ago. I can still see the look on her face. And she has not yet fully recovered from the trauma.
BS-me, 62; X-irrelevant; we’re D & NC. "So much for the past and present. The future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to let that scare you." Tennessee Williams
lknup ( member #37433) posted at 3:09 PM on Saturday, July 19th, 2014
Yikes!
Recently I was loading the washer. I reach down to pick up some clothes and see a brown drawstring. Except we do not own anything with a brown drawstring. And then it moved. And I Screamed!
I had dd stand in hallway with a broom to prevent it from escaping into the main part of the house while I tried to capture/kill? It with no luck. It slithered under something I could not move. We ended up taping the bottom of the laundry room door shut for a day until I finally was able to get it out of the house!
Ick!
Me: BS
He: WS
DD fall 2012, Divorced fall 2014, he quickly married OW
allusions ( member #25376) posted at 4:43 PM on Saturday, July 19th, 2014
I guess I won't mention how my son's pet king snake got loose and was missing in the house for several weeks. Late one night I saw him poking his head out from under the sofa. Naw, I won't mention that...
You can apologize over and over, but if your actions don't change, your words become meaningless.
Behind every crazy bitch is a sweet girl who just got tired of being lied to.
I've found the key to happiness: Stay away from assholes.
Jeaniegirl ( member #6370) posted at 6:28 AM on Tuesday, July 22nd, 2014
Scary stories! I have cats - feral cats outside so I am NOT bothered with snakes. Snakes are afraid of cats, especially feral cats. IF one would manage to ever get through the cat line, I have my Mom. She is a snake-killing woman. She keeps old fashioned post-hole diggers handy and kills them and then just keeps chopping with the diggers until she has a hole and buries them right where they met their fate. She hasn't had to do any snake-killing since ferals chose to live here.
"Because I deserve better"
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