Among Friends

[Still keeper of the koi]

Brought my carpet shampooer in from outdoor shed, filled the water tank started to clean carpets and Ahhh,A snake crawled out the front on my living room floor..mNo,no ,no....Not in the house!.....managed to fling it out the door Heart pumping like a train.And how was your morning?

[Bird mama]

[nana59]

OMG!!!  OMG!!!  My worst nightmare!!

[Kitlynn]

I get garter snakes in my flower beds and I am not afraid of them but it will get your heart to fluttering! I had about ten years ago get in the house and it was on the stairs going down to the family room. YUCK and Nooooo!! Got him out though.

[Still keeper of the koi]

My hands are still shaking,didn't even look to see  what kind just had to get it out before it got away and hid.My mother was upstairs, I cant tell her she will pass out cold.Outside I can deal with inside no way... Thank God I was there when it slithered out...

[nougat]

you are very brave! I would have went running out door myself screaming!

then who knows where it would have went. no experience with snakes thank God!

[Still keeper of the koi]

We know now where I WONT be keeping my carpet cleaner...Oh I cant unsee that!

[ItsME]

I had a snake in my house several years ago.  It was near the front door, and I ushered it out with a pair of sneakers.  I'm okay with reptiles.  A bug in my house?  Not so much!

So, where will you be keeping your carpet cleaner from now on?

[happycat]

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@Still keeper of the koi wrote:

Brought my carpet shampooer in from outdoor shed, filled the water tank started to clean carpets and Ahhh,A snake crawled out the front on my living room floor..mNo,no ,no....Not in the house!.....managed to fling it out the door Heart pumping like a train.And how was your morning?

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OH my, I think I may be having a heart attack on your behalf! Just the thought of a snake in the house and they are fast little buggers. Glad you got it out

[Carmie]

I remember when I was a preschooler.  My mother carried in a laundry basket full of line dried clothes and set it in her newly washed and waxed kitchen floor.

A snake came out if the basket and tried to slither on the floor, but was having some difficulty.  My mother went crazy.  Her worst fear was snakes.

it was just a small garden snake and I offered to pick it up and take it out and proceeded to walk towards it.  My mother grabbed me so fast and panicked.  She called my dad at work and he had to come home early and take it out.  I remember my mother crying, screaming and running upstairs and downstairs like a nut.

After that, my mother would never hang clothing out again.  My father had to buy her a dryer.  She also hung clothes in the basement.

i have two sisters who have a panic fear of snakes....probably learned from my mother.  I I don't mind them.  My father taught me how to handle them and I have no fear.  

I do avoid them.  They do not like to be disturbed.

Good job, MaryAnne.  You removed the snake without killing him.  They are actually helpful in the garden.