Don't tread on me

[+PavlovsDog]

Upon reaching my second destination of the morning, I knew that I wasn't dressed properly. Wearing shorts, t-shirt and tennis shoes, my objective was easily 30 feet in dense packed woods (N. Florida). Still, I decided to give it a shot as the cache owner promised awesome goodies for those that found it. After 20 minutes of searching around I decided to hike out to the tree line and get a good bearing point to walk back to. I don't know if it was luck or not, but I just happened to be looking down as I turned around and there it was... a 3 foot cottonmouth coiled up, mouth wide open, not more than a few feet from me. Standing there I considered my options.. A: scream like a little girl, B: scream like a little girl, C: scream like a little girl and then give the snake its space. I took option C without the screaming. Needless to say, didn't find that cache, got the wits scared out of me and now more determined to find the cache.

 

P.S. - A 37 y/o man screaming like a little girl is only funny when someone is there to actually see it. Otherwise it is just pathetic and demoralizing.

Edited March 12, 2008 by PavlovsDog

[+PyrateWench]

That's so scary... I wonder if anyone ever poked a real snaking thinking it was a fake snake with a micro hidden it it XD

[+~Mark~]

P.S. - A 37 y/o man screaming like a little girl is only funny when someone is there to actually see it. Otherwise it is just pathetic and demoralizing.

 

This is the point where you are not sure the snake is real

This is when you realize the snake is real.

This is where you scream like a little girl

this is when you are back into the car safe and sound.

[+zoltig]

umm! No thanks!

 

 

Screaming like a little girl doesn't exactly come to mind.

Soiling myself might possibly be the scenario.

I think the snake in the picture is probably a small, young cottonmouth.

[+Jolly Roger]

So this brings me my next question... who out there has been bitten while caching?

[+BlueDeuce]

Upon reaching my second destination of the morning, I knew that I wasn't dressed properly. Wearing shorts, t-shirt and tennis shoes, my objective was easily 30 feet in dense packed woods (N. Florida). Still, I decided to give it a shot as the cache owner promised awesome goodies for those that found it. After 20 minutes of searching around I decided to hike out to the tree line and get a good bearing point to walk back to. I don't know if it was luck or not, but I just happened to be looking down as I turned around and there it was... a 3 foot cottonmouth coiled up, mouth wide open, not more than a few feet from me. Standing there I considered my options.. A: scream like a little girl, B: scream like a little girl, C: scream like a little girl and then give the snake its space. I took option C without the screaming. Needless to say, didn't find that cache, got the wits scared out of me and now more determined to find the cache.

 

P.S. - A 37 y/o man screaming like a little girl is only funny when someone is there to actually see it. Otherwise it is just pathetic and demoralizing.

 

Really. My first action would be to levitate three feet off the ground and ten yards in the opposite direction.

[+TrailGators]

Upon reaching my second destination of the morning, I knew that I wasn't dressed properly. Wearing shorts, t-shirt and tennis shoes, my objective was easily 30 feet in dense packed woods (N. Florida). Still, I decided to give it a shot as the cache owner promised awesome goodies for those that found it. After 20 minutes of searching around I decided to hike out to the tree line and get a good bearing point to walk back to. I don't know if it was luck or not, but I just happened to be looking down as I turned around and there it was... a 3 foot cottonmouth coiled up, mouth wide open, not more than a few feet from me. Standing there I considered my options.. A: scream like a little girl, B: scream like a little girl, C: scream like a little girl and then give the snake its space. I took option C without the screaming. Needless to say, didn't find that cache, got the wits scared out of me and now more determined to find the cache.

 

P.S. - A 37 y/o man screaming like a little girl is only funny when someone is there to actually see it. Otherwise it is just pathetic and demoralizing.

 

Really. My first action would be to levitate three feet off the ground and ten yards in the opposite direction.

I would have jumped 10 feet straight back before my brain even thought of what to do... Edited March 15, 2008 by TrailGators

[+jwe4i]

man, after, screaming like a girl and soiling myself i would have just ran away, man i hate snakes. i'm orig from bama and we kill all snakes but i'm not usually around long enough to do that anymore, lol...geez i hate them...