Snake or Slow Worm? Scared Me Silly
If you came downstairs barefoot in the night and you saw one of the above slithering from underneath your sofa would you scream? If this happened to you would you yell out loud 'Snake!' Would you care if it was a snake or a slow worm? I didn't care at all. I screamed until I cried. More about slow worms here but they will always be snakes to me.
Last year a 'slow worm' crawled into the sleeve of a shirt drying outside on the clothes line. I didn't know this until I picked the laundry basket up ready to do some ironing. It reared up as if it were mesmerised by the music of a snake charmer and looked me straight in the eyes.
I screamed then too! I was so terrified I threw the laundry, including the snake, into the linen basket and closed the lid. The 'slow worm' tried to escape through the holes in the basket weave. It was succeeding. I kept poking it back inside the basket, amidst more screaming. I opened the bedroom window and hurled the basket and the contents into the front garden.
I don't care if they are legless lizards and have eyelids. Even though it did wink at me! They are snakes.
posted by Buggles Balham High Road at 1:46 PM
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10 Comments:
I wouldn't like one in my laudrey basket either and would have done exactly the same as you.
Snakes under my bed were a recurring childhood terror. Sometimes when the fear was on me I would nearly fly out of bed in the morning in case they bit me for their breakfast - pity that doesn't happen now (the flying out of bef I mean!) :-)
Eeeeek!! I'm with you on this one! Hate snakes and this would freak me out too!!! For a moment I thought you were living somewhere exotic, not lovely Dorset!! Hope you've got over your shock! :-)
I think that poetry block has made you a scaredy-cat! I have to confess to having always had pet slow worms as a little girl, and I still rather like them. I wonder if that's odd?
I wouldn't call you odd Poodle *grin*
A bit different from the norm but not odd *running like a scaredy-cat*
I wouldn't call you odd Poodle *grin*
A bit different from the norm but not odd *running like a scaredy-cat*
I wouldn't call you odd Poodle *grin*
A bit different from the norm but not odd *running like a scaredy-cat*
I think you're repeating yourself! ;-)
Oh dear! All that poetry had messed my head up ;-))
Hope your head is clear now :-)
Are you through the poetry - did you have to write some? Are you still enjoying the course?
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