I Hate Snakes !!!

A little guy just like this showed up in my yard last Thursday. My neighbor Jon found him and came to the door to get me so I could see him. I know these snakes are not harmful to us and that they even will eat the bugs in your yard. BUT I HATE SNAKES!!! I guess I get it from my Grandma Joy. She hated them too. I was not about to go close and see it when Jon wanted me to see it. I asked him to kill it he looked at me and said no way. I guess it creeped him out a too. (WHAT? He is a retired New York City Police Officer) He told me he would get his BB gun and I could shoot it. NOT. I went out later and it was not there anymore. I walked around my yard very careful the rest of the day and the next morning. Friday afternoon my cousin Kristi came to my house so we could dig up some shrubs and she could plant them in her yard. As I was walking around my house looking very closely I spotted the snake under the daylilys on the side of my house. (Were I was picking up snails that morning. AAAAH) I ran to the back and asked Kristi if she was brave enough to kill a snake. She said she would try. She took the shovel and found the snake. She tried to stab it and it started to go into the ground. She scooped it up and packed him back to my rock path. I ran away screaming for her to kill the dumb thing. She started stabbing it and she was screaming because the snake was trying to fight its attacker the shovel. On top of my screaming and Kristi's screaming. Her little girl was crying for us not to kill the snake. My neighbors came out to see what was going on. They were laughing at us all. Laura said "That was quite the ordeal" and I said "It wouldn't have been if Jon was brave enough the day before to kill it". Kristi put the thing in my garbage can. I made her bury it under some weeds I had in it, so I would not see it when I took garbage out. Her little girl liked me again by the time they left my house. That night she told her Dad we killed her snake friend. Big Bullys or is it BIG CHICKEN.