[MrEdd]

We had to clean water moccasins out of our swimming hole several times a year when I was a kid. Six or seven eight year Olds with their father's shovels are more than a match. We hung them on a spindly little tree by the creek.

The snakes I hate are the side winders we had at Twenty-nine Palms. There is something just wrong about a snake that can outrun you.

[buffaloguy]

We came up on 10 foot rattler and my wife yelled “Get the pistol, get th pistol!”

I jumped out of the truck, ran up to the snake and chased him off the road. Very interesting rattler, huge and fast.

She asked whether I had lost my mind and I replied that I had been around snakes a lot, had kept them in my bedroom. Thought seriously about herpetology as a living.

Funny stuff.