12f Mane said:
It's a set up. That guy is a instragram wanna be.
Yeah, I don't doubt it. I kinda got that vibe. But still, I would be changing my drawers and my pants if that rascal crawled up in my lap like that. Or really, anywhere near my body with me sitting on the ground.
One of my aunts had a close encounter with a large rattler about 20 years ago. She and my uncle were living in Waco and had bought a place on the Brazos near China Spring. It's about 20 acres with a small cabin on it. They worked on weekends clearing enough land for a new home pad site plus areas for lawn and garden, barn type building, etc. They were working one weekend in late spring after a cool front had come through. My aunt was tired and decided to take a nap on a cot inside the cabin. She laid on the cot and covered up with a blanket and promptly fell asleep. When she awoke, she immediately had an eery feeling that something wasn't right. After a few seconds, she felt something moving under the blanket and realized it was a snake. I guess it crawled up there to get warm. She couldn't see it so she just froze and waited. I don't remember how long she had to lay there like that but eventually, my uncle came in to check on her. She quietly told him what was going on and he tried to figure out how to get her out of the situation. He likes to smoke a cigar now and then and just happened to have some in the cabin. He decided to try and smoke out the snake. He lit up a stogie and then lifted up the blanket near her face just enough to blow smoke under it. After a few puffs, the snake crawled out from under the blanket on the foot end of the cot. Once he was away from her, my aunt made her exit and Uncle Herb took care of the snake with a shovel.
If that had happened to my wife, she would now be dead. She would have instantly panicked and tried to get out of the cot, thereby causing the snake to strike. But that wouldn't be what killed her because she would have died from a heart attack once she saw what it was.
