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In reply to the discussion: people and snakes are a trip [View all]

grasswire

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7. I am a snake-o-phobe.
Sun Sep 8, 2013, 11:24 PM
Sep 2013

Almost didn't open this thread, as I can't look at pics of them. And I prolly won't check back in case someone here puts a pic up.

My brother used to chase me around the house with an illustration in a book of Medusa, the figure with snakes for hair. I was four or five years old.

It's a phobia.

people and snakes are a trip [View all] backwoodsbob Sep 2013 OP
I read ya. mgc1961 Sep 2013 #1
I love snakes. I had two boa constrictors a few years ago. RebelOne Sep 2013 #3
I like snakes. They are interesting animals. The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2013 #2
Snakes are cool! PasadenaTrudy Sep 2013 #4
me too....but I found that snakes are boring pets BlancheSplanchnik Sep 2013 #14
I had a horned toad, too! PasadenaTrudy Sep 2013 #18
Snakes rock. a la izquierda Sep 2013 #5
same here backwoodsbob Sep 2013 #6
I am a snake-o-phobe. grasswire Sep 2013 #7
Snakes, spiders, bees, wasps, most 'creepy crawlies'... Locut0s Sep 2013 #8
I hav always liked snakes. Palmetto bugs, now... nolabear Sep 2013 #9
I backwoodsbob Sep 2013 #10
oh and I saw my first backwoodsbob Sep 2013 #11
Are tower ants like fire ants? Big, termite-mound building fire ants? nolabear Sep 2013 #13
Amen to that. I had some childhood experiences that left m scarred for life! nolabear Sep 2013 #12
I hate snakes Art_from_Ark Sep 2013 #15
Snakes I can handle. NuclearDem Sep 2013 #16
I don't understand the hatred of snakes OR spiders. Respect, most definitely. Fear? Not so much Flaxbee Sep 2013 #17
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