Things you used to be scared of, but not now (1 Viewer)

[Treynwreck3]

Snakes. I was deathly afraid of snakes. Had bad dreams about them, freaked out when I came across anything that looked like a snake...I was a mess. Then I got bit by a rattler. Now they just piss me off.

You were deathly afraid of snakes and then you actually came face to face and bitten by a rattlesnake? What was it like in that moment before bite impact? I can't imagine your underwear was still clean afterwards.

Bit me on my right calf. Never saw the ******* until after he hit me.

Isn't that kinda how snake bite usually happen?

Coral snakes, copperheads and rattlesnakes don't come and seek you out. They need to be provoked. Cottonmouths are the most aggressive of the four venomous snakes in Texas so those are the ones you need to look out for. The one redeeming quality of a rattlesnake is that he's usually gentlemanly enough to give you an audible warning when he feels threatened.

But wouldn't it be safe to say that the overwhelming majority of snakebites happen because the victim didn't see the snake?

"Hey, look...it's a rattlesnake. I think I'm going to get real close to it and maybe even try to pet it...OW!"

It was my fault. We were cleaning up the hay barn. We know there are snakes in there, they kill the rats. I was careless. I was moving some pallets, and probably stepped on him. I really don't recall, as it didn't matter after the fact.

 

[ChainsawU]

Snakes. I was deathly afraid of snakes. Had bad dreams about them, freaked out when I came across anything that looked like a snake...I was a mess. Then I got bit by a rattler. Now they just piss me off.

 

[ChainsawU]

Mel Brooks said that on the scene that Chelsea Handler rewrote whenever they faded to black "old school" - she felt between her keggles and thought it was an arm attached to the end of a lasso.

 

[cstu]

AIDS.

 

[ChainsawU]

And then he got stung. Mortally. At the age of 57. The same age that the artist formerly known as Prince died at. Except with less sex. Way, way, way less sex.