Meg.....did you warn your kids???? That's the scary part because kids will get into everything, and pick up all kinds of things......Those ugly spiders better not be up my way.....I think I'm a higher elevation so maybe they aren't....fingers crossed anyway....
Okay Karen here is the snake story just for you....and I swear on my life it's true....It's a little long--advanced warning....lol
Okay so I'm in my old 2 bedroom apartment that I lived in for 5 years. This was the 2nd year I believe.....I was in my bedroom watching a movie and preparing to jump into the shower....I was getting my comfy clothes picked out to wear afterwards when I heard a huge commotion coming from somewhere in the apt.....I walk out in the living room and kitchen....nothing there, nothing out of place.....door was still locked.....so I'm thinking.....okay I'm hearing things....so I'm walking back to my bedroom and the bathroom is directly in my line of vision....it's dark in there--no windows, no lights on......I notice this big outline of something on the edge of the tub......cautiously I peek in trying to figure out what the heck it was.....that's when it hit's me.....it's a snake
Okay so I lived with my brother, who conveniently wasn't home.....so I slam the bathroom door shut and jump in my car and drive to his girlfriends house(about 10 minutes away)....it was storming that night and I had to cross through flooded roads, and I was crying and freaking out....So I get there banging on the door and Jill(his ex) answers the door, and I just burst into tears again....Now I'm freaking her out too.....What's wrong, she was asking me.....I couldn't even talk......Paul, my brother comes to the door....and I blurt it out somehow....there's a snake in the bathroom......
Now, my brother loves me and we get along fantastic, his first reaction though was I don't want to go and get this snake....are you crazy, I don't like them.....Now Paul is a 6'4" manly man.....I looked at him and said you have to get it you wimp, you're the man here......so semi reluctantly they pile in their car and follow me back.....
Before we opened the door which led right into the kitchen Paul said to me....be prepared it might have gotten out of the bathroom....I said you're nuts....I shut the door, and the gap under the door was barely noticeable.....so carefully we open the door and there it was in it's full glory laying on the ceramic tile cooling itself I guess.....a big 3 foot black snake......now around here there are rumors of them cross breeding with copperheads(don't know how accurate that is).....So Paul was freaking out, I'm freaking out....but very thankful it didn't choose to hide somewhere so we'd never find it....
He gets the shovel and scoops it up and carried it down through the field we lived next too....that was the last of the snake.....
The freakiest thing was....I was literally ready to get in the shower....a few minutes earlier and it would've been showering with me
.....We quickly realized that it came down through the vent above the shower--it wasn't screwed down properly....
After Paul and Jill left I went up to the local bar to call my husband(then boyfriend).....I said you need to get your butt down here, and I'm not leaving until you get here.....so I sat there for hours.....lol Had a good buzz by the time he arrived
.....He put in about 8 big screws on the vent, but did I feel better....nope....I literally drove to my parents(20 miles one way) every single day for about 3 weeks before I could even think about showering in the apt again....
It's funny now.....I used to worry that people thought we were dirty or something when I told the story, but now I realize that living next to a field it was just something that happened....
If the snake would've dropped on me while I was showering I literally would've been scarred for life........
Oh and being brave when I was younger I used to hold my ex boyfriends python(no giggles in the peanute gallery please) :p trying to show off....the next day it bit his siters hand and she had to have it's teeth surgically removed....
Oh and he also had a monitor lizard....One day it got loose and those things are big and mean, when they bite they don't let go....well I went to pee and when I came out they said...oh by the way the monitor is loose and we think it may be in there......it was hiding under the claw foot tub....
My sister used to have a tarantula when I was little...she used to make me pet it, and I think that turned me against spiders for life....it was so ugly.
So yep, I've had a few close encounters with things that give you creepy crawlies....lol
Whew.....thank goodness I type pretty fast....