We Were Both Minding Our Own Business
Except I was walking and he was dozing.
In a nice bit of shade right in the middle of the path.
Did I mention it was a hot summer day in southern Arizona?
The path was narrow … I was literally between a rock and a hard place … and I had places to go and no desire to back up.
Anymore than he had a desire to move from such a comfortable place to laze away this fine summer afternoon.
So I stopped – a polite distance away – and we had a bit of a discussion. I said my piece; he said his.
I pointed out the error of his thinking – he pointed out he was armed and wasn’t taking any nonsense.
I countered with my point of view – the fact that I was armed didn’t seem to faze him one little bit.
I told him I didn’t really have any argument with him but that I was going to pass by.
He attempted to convince me that he didn’t care – he wasn’t moving.
Eventually he saw my point of view – we came to an understanding: he moved on, I passed by … and other than a vigorous bit of noisy displeasure on his part, no harm was done to either party.
I get grumpy too when someone disturbs my nap …
Ever since about the age of 8 when I first saw a snake I have been mesmerized by them. Don’t see them much any more. So far this year I’ve removed 2 from our front porch (one was on the chair I normally sit on!) and tossed them out in the yard.
In years past I used to kill them with a shovel but I have grown since and no longer do that retarded thing.
BTW, the Phrase Of The Day is: “disgusting abomination”, attributed to elon musk by the braindead media.
A clever use for old barrel staves:
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Don’t mess with the Snake.
no step on snek
holy shit. i hate snakes. hate.
I second your feelings !!
I don’t hate snakes. I hate infestations of mice and rats and crickets and locusts. Snakes are good animals. Just keep your children away from snakes. Teach them early to see them and respect them. I totally understand the western pioneer attitude: rattlesnakes are a mortal hazard to be killed on sight.
There was always the one kid in the neighborhood who kept a pet snake, and we’d go over to his house and pull it out and let it crawl around on our arms. I saw my first rattler when Mom and Dad took us on a day trip to Mingus Mountain, and we kids were running around wildly in the forest as city kids do (unfettered freedom!) and came upon a juvenile diamondback, about two feet long. We looked at it and marvelled, then let it be. I was a Cub Scout, I knew about poisonous snakes. I see them occasionally in the open spaces, if you get too close they buzz you, give you fair warning. We walked by one sunning himself on the rocks right by the side of the trail last weekend, the first of the group missed seeing it and walked by, the the snake finally rattled and the others jumped shrieking “Snake! Snake!”. He lazily rose himself, crossed the trail and disappeared into the rocks on the other side.
Now spiders! I hate spiders, yecch. I must have died from a spider bite in a previous life. I can’t help it.
Mr. Fleming, I respect your right to your opinion but…I still and will always hate snakes.
Well wouldn’t you know it?
Talk about a snake, get a snake.
Getting ready to mow the yard, opened the garage door and BOOM, right there, bigger’n Stuttgart – Mr or Mrs Blackie Snake. About 4′ long, maybe 1.25″ dia at the biggest part. Just stood there looking at it and it decided it wanted to come inside. Nope.
I grabbed the snow shovel standing right there and scooped him up and took him over to the woods and gave him a toss. Surely there’s better grub down there than in my garage. But then, it’s in the 80’s today so maybe he was seeking some relief on that cool concrete garage floor.
Nice work. No need to kill it. Few summers back I saw some sort of snake, couple feet long in the street. Took my shirt off and covered him with it. Made it easy to pickup and carry to a local open field.
Couple days in Cedar Rapids IA for werk. Nice folks here. Replace the corn with wheat and it is much like Wichita.