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How big was it??? This is pretty normal where my parents live, but we don't really see them in the city.
I don't really know...it was fast! I would say maybe a foot long. FI thought I was exagerrating and actually talking about an earthworm! All I know is that is was very fast moving, and it was black and white. I screamed and ran into the house. We are supposed to go shopping later but I don't think I can! Oh and I was wearing sandals!
*raises hand*
I would be doing EXACTLY what you are doing. Just reminded me of a (now) funny story...
FI and I had to go help a friend move a car, that was for some odd reason parked in the field behind his friend's house. It also had a flat tire from sitting for so long, and when FI opened the trunk to get the spare... ta-da! BIIIIG black snake, all coiled up in the trunk. I, of course, totally start freaking out, and am told to "walk away so I can't see it" (doesn't mean I don't know it's still there!). Now, while the other 2 guys we were with were trying to figure out what to do about said snake, my FI suddenly reaches into the trunk, grabs the snake right behind its head and FLINGS it into the woods. No warning. No nothing.
Needless to say, I practically fainted.
Oh, it sounds like a harmless little garden thingy. I'd probably have freaked, too, but it's not like a big ole rattlesnack came up to you =]
I'd have freaked at first, too. Cockroaches really creep me out.
I might have been scared too, but I'd remind myself that those snakes are keeping mice and rats and such away so I'd feel a bit better. I HATE mice and also would be hopping around on furniture for few hours... Not that itmatters since mice can climb! Snakes can't for the most part, so have it better lol
@ejs I had to kill a big cockroach this morning cause hubby was already gone to work. We aren't dirty people, just a victim of NYC and I wish I knew how to get rid of them!
Uuhhh SO AFRAID OF SNAKES. i havn't seen many in MA, but i heard a story from a co-worker that she was walking out to her car and a big black snake dropped from a tree like 5 feet in front of her. !!!!!!! I would have dropped dead.
i have no problem with a cute furry mouse in a pet shop or as a pet, but thinking of them running all over my house, running over/eating food i might eat, or scurrying across me as I sleep (think they are too scared of people for that? think again. happened to my sister when we were sleeping over at someone else's house on his couch) and it freaks me right the flip out
Heh I was taking care of the "family chickens" at my parents house (they live in a lovely, perfect, heavily wooded rural area) and I spotted a 5 foot black snake slithering towards the chicken house. Stepped on the tail, then back of the head (was wearing boots), and put it in a lidded bucket, took it inside- so when Mom looked at me and said "Oh did you get some more beans out of the garden?" I was like yeah here ya go! She about killed me, lol
Nope. But I'm like that with spiders. Actually, I won't even refer to them as that... I call them scaries. When I lived in Arizona, I saw a baby tarantula in the house. i sat on the kitchen table and sobbed for six hours, then wore my tennis shoes to bed. I demanded that we buy a gun stat - next one I saw was getting blown to high heaven.
Hehe I saw this post and I thought "ooo! I wonder if she owns a snake, too!".
Sorry you had such a scare!
Yikes! We live on a small lake and I've been lucky so far that I haven't seen a snake. But I'm sure they're around. I probably would be freaking out just like you if I saw one!
not snakes but I totally know what you are talking about but with cockroaches!!! EWWWW. I had to sit through this awful video telling about all the nasty things that come with cockroaches and that if there is one, there is a million around and I can't stand seeing one. I also scream and jump on something high.
My fiance gets mad because he always has half a heart attack when I scream and cry (cuz I really don't ever yell)
And, of course, we have to live in Florida where the cockroaches and AS BIG as freaking spiders....*shudders* can't even think about them....
I won't even let my fiance use my shoe or anything else associate with me because I say he'll get roaches cooties on it and I can't use it till it's been wash and decaminated.
But, snakes :D. Man, I was the kid bringing with home to show to mom..which she didn't really like 
Hehe... Im ify with snakes... I was at a snake house here in town today on a field trip with my campers, and I love them all, but if they are out in the wild, then I respect them and their homes. I am ok with seeing black snakes, garder snakes, and such; but if I see a copperhead or hear a rattler, I am gone and wont go outside with out my fun in hand, yes I am a country girl and I have killed snakes at my house before, only the poisionus ones though.
Thinking about your snake, I dont think it was anything dangerous. It would really depend on how the markings went. If you are really scared and want some comfort, get a farret. Thats what they like to do, kill snakes, just fyi ferrents can be smelly!
I am terrified of cockroaches!! Snakes, not so much, unless it's REALLY big and in the house. I lived in a house once that had a, um, mouse problem and it was soooo gross and my declawed kitty was none too helpful. I would have been happy to see a snake hanging out in the yard...
Nope! In grad school everyone knew I liked snakes and whenever someone wanted a snake removed in the neighborhood, they called me. Very clean animals, I have a good rapport with them. Now BIG UGLY bugs are what scare the bejeesus out of me!
um, I still won't leave the house! FI tried to catch it for about an hour when he got home, and it ended up under our porch! I made FI stay with me while I took a shower "in case it got into the pipes" Good thing he is very patient! I am still freaking out though.
Awww leave the poor little guy alone. He will not hurt you!
I was raised around garden snakes so they don't bother me and they aren't harmful at all. But rattlers and other snakes creep me out.
is there some agency you can call to help catch it? down here, because our snakes are so deadly we can get help pretty quick by just saying "i think its a brown snake" :)
good luck!
I don't want to kill it...I just want FI to bring it far far away! I think around here if i called someone about a snake they would laugh at me. We don't have any poisonous ones that I know of. It isn't the biting, it is the squirming that freaks me out! I know, I am a whimp! A whimp with a very patient FI!
swamp cockroaches are the worst...when I lived i Georgia once, i was using the restroom and spun the toilet paper roll for some tp. Well, Mr. GIGANTIC swamp cockroach was hanging on the other side and went FLYING across my bare lap into the shower next to the toilet.
Needles to say, I jumped up screaming, lol. Those things are monstrous and huge and nasty.
You know what I think is hilarious about this thread, you are on weddingbee while sitting atop a table. It's so sad, but this blog follows me wherever I go too!
Ugh, reading this has given me the hibbie jibbies!!!
I'm not a big fan of any uninvited creatures living in or near my house but I'd rather have a non-poisenous snake or a mouse than any type of insect, UGH!! FH hates insects more than I do so he is NO help!
In high school I lived in a farm house so we had plenty of "visitors". We found snake skins in the attic and saw snakes outside fairly often, I also so mice from time to time but the cockroaches were the WORST. One morning, I got in the shower and I was running late as usual. I looked over at my poof and there was a cockroach on it. I freaked out then used my hands to direct the water at the poof to wash the roach off of it. Then I got him down the drain and continued with my shower. A few minutes later I looked down and he was next to my foot, I scooted him down the drain again, rinsed off as quickly as possible, jumped out of the shower and yelled for my Dad. UGH!!
My niece LOVES insects. One day she was in the living room while her mom was in the shower with the door open. She told her mom that she found a spider and that it was crawling on her arm, then she said that it was crawling on her neck. My SIL figured it was a little spider, so when she got out of the shower and saw the 3 inch wide spider on her daughter's neck, she almost freaked out. My niece wasn't bothered at all so her mom just told her to put him outside.
I am not a fan of snakes either. We have one living in our garden right now. It really freaked me out the first few times I saw it, but he actually lives in an area that is surrounded by bricks and I've never seen him outside of it. Now, I call him Cobra and look for him every time I walk in the house.
They don't really bother me, but at the same time, I don't exactly like them. And I will never understand why some people keep them as pets. ick. My mother, on the other hand, has a ridiculous fear of them. We aren't even allowed to say the word "snake" around her, so we started referring to them as s's. And even that has since been banned! When I was a kid, she threw away the cute little cartoon snakes in my sister's memory game! haha.
I'm not as afraid of snakes as I am of spiders. I can't look at them in a book or on TV. OMG Aragog in Harry Potter had me curled up in a ball on my movie theater seat (both times he was in movies). I'm getting the heebbie jeebies just thinking about him!
My office has snakes, mice, roaches and mold! We joke that we have a food chain! There was a roach in the flap of papertowels that were in the ladies room, and I nearly freaked out! I refuse to open a new roll of TP unless I HAVE to and I won't use papertowels on a roll here anymore. I carry folded napkins in my pockets. The worst part is that nobody else is grossed out about it! EEEEEEK!
@ septbride26 - Oh my!! I could not just "know" a snake is living in my garden! when we first moved in we cleaned up the front flower bed and i accidently killed a baby snake with my shovel and did not notice until I shoveled it with the dirt...I dropped the shovel and ran screaming and FI and my oldest son just stared at me like I was crazy. I tell them there is a snake and FI goes and looks and they both start hysterically laughing because it was a baby and already dead. 
I hate snakes and I am scared of them. I will be the first to admit I an not knowledgable about them and that is why I am so scared. I can't even tell you what a garden snake looks like, if it slithers and hisses, its a snake and I want to be no where near it - just in case.
this past weekend we went to the river and just the night before our friends daughter tells me that the last time they went she accidently stepped on a snake trying to get a baby turtle. No one every told me there were snakes at the river!! Needless to say I was pretty aware of my surroundings and air bubbles coming out of the water. LOL
I am horrified by snakes. I see them every once in a while at my parents, and I've been incredibly lucky that my dad loves me and my mom so much that he goes on a little snake hunt once a month in the warm months, puts all the snakes he finds in a bucket, and drives them 10 miles away to a nice patch of woods.
I am so terrified FOR you, right now! That feeling takes a while to go away, I know!
This reminds me of one of my friends. She and I were going to the same college a few years ago and she took a psychology class the semester before I did. So I bought her book to use for class. In the book, there were a couple of pages talking about fears and phobias that had pictues of snakes on them. Well my friend is deathly afraid on snakes so she had her mom tape post it notes of the pictures so she wouldn't have to see them in the book!
I hate snakes with an utmost passion. I can't even stand to look at pictures of them. Oh my god I hate them. But anyways here's something you might want to look at to see if you can identify it.
http://www.masnakes.org/guide.html
And by the way, you mentioned something about not having poisonous snakes in your area, according to that site you have atleast Copperheads and Timber Rattlesnakes which are venomous.
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I just saw a snake outside in the garden! I've stopped crying, but I am shaking like crazy and won't get up from this high table chair until FI gets home! This thing is less than 5 feet from the house! Is anyone else as afraid of snakes as I am???