Nooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!

Last night, I pull up at AC's house to pick her up for a little Girl's Night Out only to be surprised by a little slithery visitor hanging out by their front door, under the bushes. Now, thankfully I was in the car, but her hubby (GC) spotted it first and jumped about 5-feet in the air since he almost stepped on it.

Being that AC and I both have a horrible phobia of snakes (really...who doesn't except for Bindi the Jungle Girl?), we (along with her daughter) stay in the car, windows up, doors locked. You know, because that thing may actually jump our direction in one 15-yard leap...

GC picks it up and that's when we really cringe. I guess we were thinking it was going to be some little garden snake. Um...no. It was a rat snake and it was very healthy.

I say, "Oh my word! That thing looks like it's about 3 1/2 feet long!" and without skipping a beat, AC answers, "No way...I think it's 10!!!"

With it now curled on the end of this stick, GC turns to take it to meet its maker. However, he turns a direction we weren't expecting. He turns to the front door. Our thought was he was going to take a shortcut through the house to get to the backyard (in his defense, he could have simply been turning to shut the door!). But in our freaked out state, we think he is going in the house...with the snake...and all three of us scream, "Nooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!" while still in the car. Windows up. Doors locked. He turns to look at us like, "What the....?". Which either meant "I can't believe I can hear you all from over here!" OR "Did you really think I'd take this in the house knowing how scared you are of snakes?!"

Regardless, he takes it out back. Kills it. Comes and tells us it's now safe and we are on our way.

Later, after I drop her off she calls me and says, "You'll never guess what Em (her daughter) did. GC took her to look at it in the trashcan and she said, 'Ohhhh...it's kinda cute. I feel bad for it now. Can I take it for show and tell?' Obviously she did NOT get that trait from me, feeling sorry for a snake."

Indeed she did NOT. And she didn't get it from her Aunt TT either! :-)

YUUCKKKKKKKKKK!