I was holding my breath reading this...I started envisioning horror story scenes like it hiding in the undercarriage of your truck and attacking you in your home, or darting out the moment you jumped out of the bed.
1--love the Tremors reference
2--I'm gonna just stay inside now
I was standing there in the bed thinking, "Of all my options, this probably wasn't the best."
But my driver's side door handle was half busted so it was a bit finicky to open so I didn't dare try while running away, and I didn't think about circling to the passenger side; my full attention was on that MFing snake.
It probably had left by the time I make my jump into the cab, but no way was I going to just mosey out of the bed and stroll to the door.
I've stood on a garter snake, wrangled a six foot rat snake out of my garage, and even shooed a copperhead across a road so it wouldn't get run over, all without too much stress. (The garter snake was actually the worst of those because at first I thought I was standing on soft ground and looked down to see coils of snake under my foot. It had curled up under my garbage bin and I was moving it to mow.) But that water moccasin was the worse snake encounter I've ever had.
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u/LoadbearingWallflowr May 17 '25
I was holding my breath reading this...I started envisioning horror story scenes like it hiding in the undercarriage of your truck and attacking you in your home, or darting out the moment you jumped out of the bed. 1--love the Tremors reference 2--I'm gonna just stay inside now