ok so you think you have had a bad day/week?

[Kali]

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FUCKING RATTLESNAKE UNDER MY FUCKING DESK!!!

[seabeyond]

1. did it make you jump, lol?

ah, that is something. i lived out in the middle of nowhere in the az. desert when i was young. we saw our share of rattle snakes and scorpians.

[Kali]

2. It was the PERFECT surreal cap the last 24 hours!

OMG, I am just a walking disaster sometimes.

[Capn Sunshine]

3. Jesus, I'm afraid to look under my desk now

My feet are all tingly. The sliding glass door has been open all day.

[MiddleFingerMom]

4. There there, Kali. There there. Bad ol' Mr Rattlesnake underneath ums desky-wesky...

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Of COURSE we believe you..
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Really.
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We DO!!!!
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ALL YOU BAD OL' RATTLESNAKES BETTER SKEDADDLE NOW IF YOU KNOW WHAT'S GOOD FOR YOU!!!!!
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Of COURSE, I'll leave the nightlight on.
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And your bedroom door open.
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Yes, I'll close your closet door.
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No, you can NOT have another drink of water.
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Sheesh.
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Kid knows how to milk a "tragedy".
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Now, lemme see just what the hell's under her desk.
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[Kali]

8. that is a cool picture

but


please excuse the gross floor, yes I eat at my desk/computer and yes I am a slob and yes 10 years ago I sanded the floor and still haven't refinished it

[TreasonousBastard]

15. Since you now have a dead snake somewhere on the premises...

have you decided how to cook it, and whether to make a belt or shoes from the skin?

[noamnety]

18. LMAO

"please excuse the gross floor, yes I eat at my desk/computer"

best caption ever for that photo!

[Skittles]

5. you want I should kick some rattling ass, Kali?

LEMME AT IT

[Kali]

6. I got him, he's headless now

:rofl: but you might need to come kick my ass - something is twisted in my universe, this has been a strange day

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. My dear Kali!

Omigod!

I would be moving out of there so fast the rattler wouldn't know what had happened!

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Holy shit, woman. How do you cope????

[Kali]

9. and to think last year I was complaining about skunks coming in the house

:eyes:

its funny how regular healthy fear and irrational fear work, though. I'm not irrationally afraid of snakes, even rattlers - I mean I freaked a little that it was there, but dispatched it and now am sitting here fine. On the other hand I have an irrational fear of caterpillars (I know, it's weird) and if there had been a big old tomato worm under there I would be all jumpy and nervous and probably go put shoes on and rig up a light or something - in fact just writing that scenario makes me feel funnier than the snake...:crazy:

[MiddleFingerMom]

10. Years ago, I got Kali the PERFECT weapon for lopping off rattler noggins...

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...you should SEE her go toe-to-toe with...
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...no, that's not right.
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You should see her go mano-a-mano with...
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...no, that's not right.
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You should see her go head-to-headless with a big ol' rattler with just her head lopper-offer.
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One VERY tough cookie, that Kali.
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[velvet]

11. Ah, country life!

Ain't it grand? Ain't it peaceful?

My house is up a little off the ground and in twenty years no snake has climbed the steps. Fortunately. I did have a bad day/week but there were no snakes involved. Even in summer I rarely see them.

Where I live the Brown Snake and the Red-bellied Black are the ones you have to watch out for. The Brown is nothing to look at, but fierce. The Black is beautiful, rich red, glossy black and less aggressive. They say round here that there are more Browns than Blacks because the Browns eat the Blacks' young. I don't know if it's true.

Hope the wierdness you're enduring lifts like mist in the morning.

[Kali]

13. peaceful?

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

sometimes driving home about daybreak after a call about livestock out where they shouldn't be it's peaceful, and before all the chickens got munched again it was nice to go sit with them in the morning. Other than than that I'm having a hard time pulling up the "peaceful, quiet" memories at the moment. :rofl:


I know they are there. just not coming to me right now:P

[XemaSab]

12. Hopefully if that happened to me

the eruption of diarrhea would scare it away. :o

[MiddleFingerMom]

19. !!!!!

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[kimi]

14. Oooh, rattlesnakes have red blood!!

Cool, I thought they would be like aliens and have green slime coming out of them.

They DO resemble monster-alien-beasty critters. IMO.

[S n o w b a l l]

16. YIKES!!

I would have had a serious heart attack. Did you see him before you sat down there?

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[Kali]

17. I heard him.

I had gone into the kitchen for a snack and came back, set the plate down and he buzzed real loud. (2 feet away from my bare tootsies, although I didn't know it yet) I thought it was coming from the window to a porch just to the left and assumed one of the cats had it cornered right there, but when I stepped around that direction the sound was coming from this way and the cats were accounted for now, so then I thought must be just outside the front door and went that way (walking within a few feet of it again!) and no the sound was coming from under my desk. Flipped the overhead light on and there it was - started yelling for somebody to bring a shovel because I wanted to keep an eye on it and not have it head somewhere I couldn't find! The only weapon at hand was a bamboo back scratcher and it was just a little short for comfort. :rofl: