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The only thing worse than seeing a snake in the house is seeing it, going to grab something to remove it with, and coming back and it finding it. It really plays with your mind. Especially in countries that have truly venomous species. Years back a neighbor had a six to seven foot spitting cobra come into their living room - that was a fun time. Another time some workers at or compound saw a large snake (it was coiled so it's true length was hard to see) in their sleeping quarters m, and when they went to find something to kill it with they found it gone. The big question was whether it had escaped outside, or if it was under the covers or in a cupboard or who knows where. I had seen the snake myself, and it was large and looked quite menacing. It might have been a very large but harmless colubrid, but then again certain types of cobra and other elapids (it was definitely not a viper) look like very large colubrids. Let's just say that for some time the two grown male workers slept on the same bed in the same room (even though they each had a room).

Anyway, seeing snakes and then not knowing where they went can play interesting mind games on someone. I once ran from my bed years back in a suboptimal state of undress when I felt what felt absolutely like a sizeable snake wrapping itself around my ankle for warmth. Turned out to be nothing, but again - where I am from there are snakes you don't want to be bitten by. Some will kill you quick (e.g. mambas, most types of cobra and the boomslang have fast acting neurotoxic venom), while others will kill you slower but make you wish you were dead (venom from the likes of a puff adder or certain types of spitting cobra are hemotoxic/cytotoxic, and will really damage your body around the area of the bite even if you survive).

There are people who have removed all furniture from a house and cleared it after seeing a black mamba ...which was found curled around several clothes hangars in the jacket cabinet (and mambas can get really long). While this lady might be dealing with only garter snakes, I can certainly understand her predicament.

Good grief!

Where do you live?!?

Okay, sounds like you are in some places I tend to go. We are currently in Sierra Leone and have had a couple of nice snake stories dealing with Black Cobras and Green Mambas.

Thanks in advance for the nightmares I am going to have!

Was hiking a few months ago and saw a bamboo snake slithering in a ditch. Good thing I live on the 14th floor.

I’m sitting here at the computer, with bare feet resting
under the desk - imagining snakes crawling around under
the desk. We have rattlesnakes & copperheads out here.
:o(

Black Mamba?

Oh, Hell no!