A snake in the pool

151949 · ‎03-09-2010

My Dh and some of our friends always make fun of me because before I ever get into a swimming pool I always walk around the outside edge and look into it to be sure there are no critters in there. Well, today on MSN homepage there is a video of a guy who has a Cottonmouth snake in his pool. He calls someone to get it out of there and the guy wades in there - fully dressed and catches it with long handled picker uppers . A better man than me for sure! Now i will really be walking around and looking before getting into a pool.

Cyndog · ‎10-08-2010

I'm with you. I'd be afraid to have a pool where we live for just that reason. People do have pools here, but not many. A friend of ours had to get out of his pool fast when a rattlesnake came in. I alway worry about snakes in the car and was telling myself I was crazy to worry. Then there was a story on the news (Los Angeles) showing a video of a snake coming out of a woman's console while she was driving down the freeway! I'd have a heart attack. That story sure did nothing to help quell my fears, ha, ha. I'm like you, I'm constantly on the lookout for snakes. Are there a lot of snakes where you live?

DoneTryin · ‎03-09-2010

Yikes! I always use the excuse "I need to see the bottom" for not going into bodies of water. Now you're telling me I have to watch for snakes in the cement ponds (OK, flashback to Beverly Hillbillies). I think I had the right idea all along - lounge comfortably nearby, slather on the sunscreen, put on my dark shades, & read a good book!

lolakimono · ‎03-29-2012

I don't want to swim with them, for sure, but this scares me more! ${#emotions_dlg.scared}$

RedTop · ‎09-01-2010

I totally understand about being cautious of your surroundings, and expecting the unexpected. My youngest daughter drives a tractor trailer for a living, and she has learned to watch for snakes, bears, and coyotes in the parking lots of the truck stops across the country.

Dilbert Deaux · ‎01-20-2014

On 1/22/2014 lolakimono said:
I don't want to swim with them, for sure, but this scares me more! ${#emotions_dlg.scared}$

I'm no doctor but, I'd suggest more fiber.

KentuckyWoman · ‎03-13-2010

On 1/22/2014 lolakimono said:
I don't want to swim with them, for sure, but this scares me more! ${#emotions_dlg.scared}$

I'm with you. This is why I always turn on the light and look before I sit. I hate snakes.

BecauseCats · ‎08-25-2010

I previously lived in new development in New Orleans surrounded by a canal and every time it rained they reminded you on the news to close your garage doors. Snakes would come up out of the canals and get into the garages. I heard more than one neighbor screaming in their garages after it rained.

twocent · ‎03-09-2010

On 1/22/2014 KentuckyWoman said:
On 1/22/2014 lolakimono said:
I don't want to swim with them, for sure, but this scares me more! ${#emotions_dlg.scared}$

I'm with you. This is why I always turn on the light and look before I sit. I hate snakes.

I would absolutely go into cardiac arrest! ${#emotions_dlg.scared}$ How does this even happen?????????

OMG ! ${#emotions_dlg.ohmy}$ Can they go thru anyone's sewer system??????????

You'll find my heart at the Rainbow Bridge.

mousiegirl · ‎03-09-2010

Our previous house had a pool. One day, I went outside where DH was floating around and snoozing to see a big lizard sitting on the edge by DH's head. I yelped, he startled, and they all went into the pool. I then began yelping for him to rescue it, lol.