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Trigger Warning

5/10/2018

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My Daddo was petrified of snakes. A traumatic childhood canoe mishap rendered him and his sister and his mother all terribly snake-averse.

In later years,
 he referred to them as "serpents" in a mostly ineffectual effort to keep from getting the willies* when talking about them.
Not wanting to suffer the same fate, I once took hold of a squirmy mass of frigid reptiles as they emerged from their winter dormancy. I figured if I could grasp multiple snakes and carry them around for a bit, I would never have that fear.

​So I conveyed my legless cargo –– at full arm's stretch over my head like the trophy I imagined it was –– to Mumsie as she knelt gardening and said, "Look! Snakes!"
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Mumsie was seriously afraid of spiders but pretty much loved any other living creature in the world. She said, "Oh, for pity's sake. Put them down before they warm up and start biting you."
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Lo these decades later, the vaccination still works. A little corn-snake lurking among some line doesn't bother me one bit.

​I wonder if he imagined he was invisible. He didn't have much of a grip on how complementary colors work on the 
color wheel. It's a like scene from a Michael Bay film. 

*Ooh, yeah, that Flickr site: so there's someone who re-creates Gary Larson's Far Side cartoons using Legos.
I may have reached the end of the interwebs.
3 Comments
corn snake spinnaker sheets
5/12/2018 07:51:19 am

Ever since two gals from RISD took my boa (grew too big for a teen to cuddle) I've always stopped the car and tossed turtles and snakes struggling on the pavement back into the grass before they get squished. However, in the east county land of enormous banana spiders and five-foot snakes, the corn snakes have taught me to mind my own freakin' business an jus get back in da car.

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Amy
5/12/2018 09:20:46 am

I wonder what the girls from Rhode Island School of Design DID with said boa.
Thanks for rescuing the reptiles, corn-snake attitude notwithstanding. I do it too -- though I often wonder if I have erased a day's worth of slow-crawling work if I put the turtle back on the side from which he just escaped...

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Some turtles just bee line it back to the road !
5/12/2018 09:56:26 pm

Comfortable as boa always seemed with people, art gals were super comfortable with the snake pushing six feet ! He must've been the favorite accoutrement of the models in them life drawing charcoal classes.




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