My biggest fear of anything has got to be snakes! I dont' like looking at them on tv or anywhere. And to see them at a zoo creeps me way out. Thinking that at any moment they could come slithering out and get me is terrifying to say the least. They don't eveh have to be poisonous. My phobia is called Ophidiophobia or Snakephobia. I think I like the Snakephobia name better. You can't mistake what it is from that.
A few years ago I had an instance with one. Our crazy neighbor had a little garter snake. I didn't know this. He decided it was too big to keep anymore, so he let it go. One day I come into the garage to get in the car to warm it up and move it out. As I opened the garage door I see a snake skin wrapped around the edge of the door, as if it had crawled in through the little hole from outside. Well that was enough for me to not go into the garage for along while. All I could think of was it might get into our family room (which is hooked to the garage). I pictured it hanging down from the rafters. Ron came home and I wouldn't let him sleep til it was captured and taken care of. Well he finally found it out near the woodpile. He shot it over and over with a bb gun. It wouldn't die! There was blood all over the fence. Finally he went out with a shovel and chopped its head off. That was the last time I have seen a snake and I hope it will be forever!
That is the only time I have ever encountered a snake. So I really don't know why I'm so afraid of them. When people ask me if I would ever want to go to Australia, I always say no way they have way tooooo many snakes down there!




Thanks Connie!



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