Fear And Loathing

[shouldazagged]

On the only other gun forum I visit (and I'm about to give up on it) there was a thread about rattlesnakes. I was pleased to see that a number of posters felt as I do: I won't kill a snake unless it's him or me, and it hasn't been him or me for over fifty years. I've sat on the bank of a pond and watched a two-and-a-half-foot copperhead hunting frogs eighteen inches from my boot. He wasn't bothering me, so I saw no reason to bother him. But other posters on the rattlesnake thread clearly hated the critters and wanted to kill them on sight. Many people have a terrific phobia about snakes.

I don't, but I have an absolute hatred of rats. I've seen what they can do to humans, especially children. I used to see and hear them in my grandfather's house when I was a little boy. I guess it's almost a phobia, but certainly is a loathing.

Heights scare me. Put two pairs of socks on me and I'm a little uncomfortable. When I was a firefighter many years ago I would do ladder work, but I hated it passionately.

All right, I've admitted two of mine--what are some of your phobias/hatreds, excluding people or political persuasions?

 

[Faulkner]

Well, I'm sorry, but it's pretty much snakes for me.

 

[Rintimtin]

I am not afraid of them but they give me the creeps Spiders, I can deal with big hairy ones but the skinny ones (not daddy long legs) but the really creepy looking ones. And the smaller they are the more creepy they seem to be.

 

[Rintimtin]

Well, I'm sorry, but it's pretty much snakes for me.

I see the rattle, but do you know what type of snake that is?

 

[Foodfuzz]

Well, I don't like spiders and snakes and that ain't what it takes to move me. Nothing like walking into a big spider webb while squirrel hunting or stepping on a nice rattler or moccasin!

 

[CGhelofxr]

Heights and an angry wife scare the poo out of me. BTW.. I seem to make her angry fairly easy

 

[Arik]

Big bugs especially .....especially spiders! Those things freak me out! Eeegghhh i get chills just thinking about them.

Hights too. Especially airplanes. I've flown but hated every second of it. Imagine flying to europe ...none stop 7.45 hours and hanging onto your seat the whole time like the plane is already going down

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[gregintenn]

excluding people or political persuasions?
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You didn't leave much for me.

 

[kozmic]

I'm all about live and let live with anything minding its own business in the wild. Most critters native to this area are harmless and therefore of little concern to me.

I do however have a very healthy fear of driving over long, high bridges. I get a white-knuckled and flush. I'm always relieved to get back on solid ground.

 

[shouldazagged]

Well, I'm sorry, but it's pretty much snakes for me.

No need to be sorry. Nice shot, by the way.

 

[LVSteve]

Black widows and roaches. I hate both do the degree that I will hunt them at night in my yard or even just taking a stroll around the community after dark. If we had scorpions to any degree I'd be on their case, too. I'm not keen on Sun Spiders (Windscorpions if you prefer) but at least they are not venomous, just bad tempered and quick.

 

[VMaxSplat]

Well, I'm sorry, but it's pretty much snakes for me.

I'm not much of a snake fan either... Dusted a copperhead with my Shield 40 on Tuesday.

 

[Silver Dollar]

For me, I won't fly in a commercial air liner on a bet and I was in the Air Force. For the record, if I had to fly in an AC-130, a C17 or a B2, I would have no problem. It's the commercial airlines I hate. I don't trust them.

 

[chud333]

Spiders creep me out. No problem with snakes.
Also heights, anything over about 15 feet i am
NOT comfortable. I too will also fly on occasion
but am again, NOT comfortable on airplanes.
If God meant us to fly he would have given us wings.

Chuck

 

[jkc]

I see the rattle, but do you know what type of snake that is?

Crotalus Horridus, I believe --- timber rattler.

 

[jinx]

Rats. Gotta be rats

 

[35Rem]

Snakes are the worst!

 

[mstuhr]

Good snake

Crotalus Horridis, I believe --- timber rattler.

That's what known in these parts as a "Good snake."
Thanks
Mike

 

[snubbyfan]

Got me thinkin', one of my phobias has been having the movements of my hands or feet restricted. I guess it goes along with my claustrophobia. Hmm, seems with my degenerative neuropathy, I get to have the joy of living with one of my phobias everyday of my life.

 

[Faulkner]

I see the rattle, but do you know what type of snake that is?

Crotalus Horridis, I believe --- timber rattler.

I'm no snake expert, but according to the Arkansas Encylopedia of snakes, reptiles, and other creepy things, the state of Arkansas only has two kinds of snakes. Of the two types, this one is classified as a dead snake . . . the other classification being known as live snakes.