I’m so happy it’s Spring! I like almost everything that comes along with Spring including warmer weather, grilling out again, flowers, my garden, the smell of fresh cut grass and I could go on and on.
However, there is one thing that comes along with Spring I hate. It’s snakes. I hate snakes. I hate them with a passion. Almost every spring there are several garden snakes making a home in my shed out back. I’ve killed at least one each year we’ve lived in this house.
I found this video yesterday and couldn’t stop laughing (do not watch this with any liquids in your mouth). This guy feels about lizards the way I feel about snakes! I’m not kidding you…I freak out.
What animal/creature/insect just freaks you out?
Dude… I had to watch that 5 times it was so great. Its a good way to start the day!!
I’m still laughing at it Tony!
Pete- you’re such a girl! Haven’t you read WILD AT HEART?
I respond the same way this guy in the video does(to snakes) but it can be a mouse, a bug, spider, all rodents, etc.
Just teasing.
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Snakes and Spiders. bleck. disgusting.
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This video just CRACKS ME UP!!!
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Snakes, clowns, and wooden puppets freak me out.
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Geckos. Ew! We had two that lived in the porch light over our front door. If I came home to find them hanging out over my head I wouldn’t unlock the door – I’d ring the bell, step back and wait for my hubby to open the door and then quickly dash into the house. He would laugh at me and tell me I was silly for thinking that they would drop on my head. Until one of them dropped on his head!!!!!!
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cockroaches (the big, black, flying kind) and dead churches (the blind, self-righteous, religious kind).
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I am with you bro. Hate ‘em… even the dead ones freak me out. One time a snake got bailed up in a hay bail with its head and 6 inches of its body hanging out still alive! Its was pretty mad. So I carefully placed it in the hay elevator to freak out my co-farm-hand who also hated snakes with a passion. I can’t print what transpired ..
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ME TOO! I absolutely detest snakes and since we’ve moved to Florida, they are in our house ALL THE TIME!
Thankfully, the cats flush them out so you know when they are in the house, otherwise, I’d never go to sleep for fear one was under the bed…
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Mostly rodents of any kind freak me out. When I was living in New York, I had entire families of mice in my apartment… they lived to torment me! They were bold and didn’t even bother hiding from me….ewww, still freaks me out to think about it.
snakes…except I love the garden kind that slither around as I mow. other than that…snakes!
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@Jason, wooden puppets?
Snakes, particularly the one that got caught in my bike spokes on the trail a couple summers ago. It flopped and flopped until I pedaled so hard it flew into several pieces. Ugh. I get sick thinking about it.
Rubber balloons also creep me out. And they don’t even have a heartbeat.
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Snakes, mice, and crickets…because crickets jump.
@ Candy: GROSS! I would have fallen off my bike, had a heart attack, and died if that had happened to me.
The two scariest things in the world are spiders and port-a-potties.
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I wish I could see the other camera angles
I think you know how I feel about frogs (involuntary shudder). I’m with Andi on the geckoes – especially the ones that are see-through with brown spots — straight outta hell, I tell ya! Add to my horror when my cat plays with them, so I find pieces of them around my house, or worse — mutilated but still crawling around. Okay, I’m grossing myself out. Also – clowns, mimes, blue man group and female TBN hostesses with gianormous hair. Pretty much anyone whose natural skin color is completely obscured.
Bummer that I didn’t know about your fear of snakes before Off the Blogs, though…
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I am with you you Pete! I HATE snakes. Would totally freak out if I ever ran across one in my yard or shed!
I’ve seen that before. So funny!
And I hate snakes too. I just have to see one for my insides to turn inside out. Ugh!
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the BIG cockroaches and then those house centipedes…ewwwww..oh i am scared right now – they come out of drains or damp places….SICK.
thanks pete.
Snakes, and their distant cousins – worms. Pretty much anything that was designed without legs.
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I love that video!
I love all animals, reptiles and insects. I’m one of those catching spiders in a tupperware vegetarian types.
I do kill mosquitos.
The only animals that freak me out are dead ones.. especially if they’ve been disfigured in some way- like when my cat brings me a present of a headless squirrel.
One of my first jobs was at a pet shop and I’d have to scoop out dead fish (yuk) or dead hamsters after the other hamsters ate them all night. I didn’t last long at that job.
Way to go, Pete! You found a video that expresses my reaction EXACTLY! Snakes, lizards – they are of the Devil.
Spiders, Clowns.
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That video is hilarious! I think what cracks me up the most is that he is HOLDING a snake, but freaks out when the little lizard hops onto his suit! I would rather deal with a lizard than a snake! I’m with you on this one, Pete. Snakes CREEP ME OUT!!!
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Had to call my husband & two boys in to watch…5 times! What a great way to start the day, poor guy!…although I am going to be looking over my shoulder for random animals jumping on me at the zoo tomorrow!
Katdish, don’t you think you gave Pete new things and people to fear at Off the Blogs?
I am afraid of rodents. That includes squirrels. I consider squirrels to be bushy tailed rats with a spring in their step! Plus, they can climb! Kinda like snakes…..
Pete, just send the snakes here to me in Chicago, so I can sic them on the squirrels…..
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LOL… didn’t take your advice was drinking water while watching and spit up all over the floor from laughing. I hate bees, wasp,hornets… all of them.
Man, a lot of you guys are scared of clowns.
I forgot to answer the question:
I think context is important. I can’t think of an animal that I have a phobia about but while I think a grizzly bear behind bars is cute and cuddly, I don’t want him breathing sweet nothings in my ear while on a camping trip in Alaska. Just as I don’t mind handling snakes but I really don’t want them to bite me, poisonous or not.
Eww, just thought of something. I don’t think I would care for that fly that lays its eggs under your skin. Those maggots are gross as they poke their big heads out of a hole in your skin to breathe. That’s just plain nasty.
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Short white men.
Sorry, I just had to steal Tam’s thunder for a moment.
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Cicadas! And we live in an old neighborhood on a heavily wooded lot, so several years ago when it was 17-year-cicada time, it was like a living nightmare here in Cincinnati, Ohio for me. The shells were lying in heaps around the base of every tree in our yard, and the noise of their call was so loud you just could not escape it. I couldn’t even bring myself to go outside to get the mail–seriously. And I insisted we have a garage door opener installed that year, because there was no way I was getting out of the car to lift the door with cicadas flying all over creation. I was pretty insane about it, admittedly, but still!
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what is that sound the host is making after the lizard leap?
I love how he tries to regain composure but can’t stop cracking up.
ummmmmm…….don’t move to Africa! I cannot tell you how many snakes I saw there on a daily basis. (and not the garden snakes type)
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@Many, oh I think you topped her with that one.
@Britt, I was wondering the same thing. It sounds like that noise is coming from his throat.
I like snakes….my husband is afraid of them, that and he is afraid of turtles. Funny thing, is that the turtles “know” it and go after him.
I can tolerate most stuff, but one thing that really skeeves me out is those millipede disgusting insects with those creepy million legs….*shudder*
Wanna hear something hilarious….I have a friend who is afraid of BUTTONS! tough phobia, huh? And what is even funny, more bizzare…is that there is a medical term for it (don’t know it off the top of my head, though)
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Most bugs and rodents I’m cool with, but when my wife gives me that look when I’ve gone to far ….
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Rats, snakes and those crickets that look like half cricket and half spider.
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What you need there, Pastor Pete is a mongoose.
Britt – If God didn’t intend us to eat animals, he wouldn’t have made them out of meat.
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i’m so with you about the snakes. i can’t even handle rubber snakes. seriously. when our nephew was 4 he was teasing me with a rubber snake and i had a panic like attack. almost hurt my nephew. i can’t even look at a picture of them without having nightmares that night. a psychiatrist would have a field day with me.
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He’s a good friend of my boss. Hilarious!
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oh my cow, that was hilarious!
I hate mice. REALLY hate mice. I grew up in an old farm house and sometimes you could hear them scratching in the walls (my mom would hate me for telling that). My dad always tried to tell me that mice were more afraid of me than I was of them.
But he didn’t have a good explanation as to why, if they were afraid, they would RUN RIGHT AT ME.
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That was hysterical!!!!!! Thanks for the no liquid in mouth warning!!!!
And I am with Gitz-mice freak me out. Not outside mice but mice in the house are very very bad for me.
That was good!
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My husband has the same phobia of snakes…and that’s his excuse why he can’t help me with the yard. I am afraid of dirty dishes, and that’s why I don’t wash them.
@Linnae, that is hilarious. What a small world!
Pete, can you give me a days notice before you clean out your shed this spring? I’d like to head over there with my FLIP.
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@mandy – GOOD one!!!
i hate ants. they cuh-reeeeep me out!
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I am absolutely terrified of mice! I specifically remember one year being in my sister’s room with her, and we were chatting on her bed. Two mice ‘sourrounded’ us, we starting screaming/crying/jumping on her bed. My dad woke up and thought something horrible was happening to us, when he saw what we were freaking out at, he laughed and to this day bugs us about it!
Oh man. This is still one of the funniest things I’ve seen. Each time I replay it I laugh even harder.
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Right there with ya….hate, absolutely hate snakes…I could bearly watch this video, they freak me out that much!!!!!!!
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I hate snakes…I guess if falls more into the terrified category. I have a friend who loves them and did not know how fearful I was and as she brought it near I almost fainted…and now I really know how much I hate them…ick!
Although I think almost fainting is way better than that poor fellows reaction…
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I have tears in my eyes laughing so hard! Any thing like snakes, lizards or creepy crawly things do it for me…and I think I better get used to those things with three boys in my house!
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Crabs scare the daylights out of me….the kind that live in the ocean, not the kind you get after a one-night stand.
I donno why I’m so scared of them, but it’s been like that since I was really young.
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@Jenn, I’ve laughed on and off all day just thinking about the video!
Spiders and those palmetto water bugs (giant roaches!). Ick!!
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SNAKES…
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That was So Funny!! Living in Alaska we don’t have to worry about snakes and spiders. Just a rogue moose or a Grizzly protecting her cubs or wanting your fishing spot. Such fun!
I can deal with Mice, and roaches if I have to, I can’t tolerate bees, wasps, bad thing is I had one in my house this week and ran into the living room, unfortunately, i was the only one home, so took the bleach cleaner and sprayed it until the wings got heavy and then swatted it. I get the willies just thinking about it.
SPIDERS…and anything that can fly and get stuck in my rats nest hair!!!
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I hate tornados in the spring time. I lived in Oklahoma growing up and now Missouri. I can’t wait for Germany where they hardly ever get tornados.
Hilarious! The dude almost dropped the “F Bomb”. Could have been his last interview. There is nothing like a grow man running around screaming like a little girl. Priceless!
dude!
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I like lizards, but agree that snakes are scary. Also creepy are rats, big black cockroaches, snails, and most spiders.
My son is deathly afraid of snakes and lizards and he’s trying to get over his fears by watching documentaries on them. So far it’s not working. They are only causing scary dreams. Poor guy.
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Okay, I have to chime in….
I am not fond of BEE’s….I am not allergic, just no love for bee’s. It could be because as I child bee’s liked to torment me….there was the time I had bee fly into my hair and I put my hand through my hair and it stung me. Or it could be the time that I was on the playground at school and fell back on a rotten apple on the ground that had some bee’s hanging around and it stung my hand (bee and stinger intact in my palm). Or it could be the time that I was mowing my grass in college that there was a nest in the ground and I disturbed it just a bit. Or it could be the many times in elementary school that the windows in the class would be open and the bee’s decided they liked my desk area…. Or maybe it was the Killer Bee movie that I saw in the 80s that freaked me out…
Yeah….those could be just a few reasons.
S.
PS. I did see the Bee Movie…which was great. So maybe I don’t hate them as much I think….hmmm!
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Susie, Sounds like you need to stay as far away from bees as possible.
That was stinking funny.
I feel that way about mice … except I don’t recover near as quickly as that guy did.
I have many mice vs me stories but will spare you!
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you said the s word so i could not even read your post
i. do. not. like. snakes. period.
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i made a post w/ you in it. let me know if prob:
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Snakes are scary. We were building a house last summer and killed 17 rattle snakes. Funny video
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I’m with you Pete. Snakes….oh do they freak me out.
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I’m with Jason about clowns too. Clowns probably more than snakes.
Especially the Shriners Clowns in the little cars. Oh good Lord.
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That was hysterical! My fear is snakes but my freak out is a little more insane than his. My first instinct is to ball up my fists and hit someone (usually my poor unsuspecting husband) and then I just lose all rational control and mental ability. I could probably use therapy…
Case in point, check out this post:
http://clowe-imhere.blogspot.com/2008/10/me-and-indy.html
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Cue Indiana Jones clip – “Why did it have to be snakes?!” *shudder*
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I saw one of your friends today:
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