I'm sitting here trying to type like an adult but I have twice seen something move out of the corner of my eye and jumped like I was shot! Wasn't going to post this and show my cur spirit and my yellow streak and void where a spine would be and have been trying to surf YT, post normally to work out my nerves but seeing the second movement has me freaked. I KNOW it is imagination and extreme nerves and nothing is there but here is what happened:
About 4:30 today I ran into PetSmart to pick up Tibbe some dog food and couldn't find his brand. Picked him up a new dog bed and got in line behind this guy at the Banfield service counter to ask about it and, as I'm walking up, am digging in my purse for my phone, etc. Standing there doing the phone stuff and look up - RIGHT INTO THE EYES OF A SNAKE!!! A BLOODY SNAKE! (It wasn't really bloody I just want to use a swear word and I can't so Sally & Harry will understand I am cussing-unnerved here.)
This man had a darn(not my word of choice) around his neck, with its beady eyes right at my eye level and soooooo close! So, to make a long story short - I'm severely snake phobic. Severely. More than severely. Crazy snake phobic! I just began going backward and flailing my arms, not seeing anything and certainly not breathing anymore. I wanted to scream and nothing was coming out. Here is the embarrassing part - one of the vets came out & I almost ran to her and stood behind her like a 4 year old. She asked me how to help, I guess I croaked out what I was there for and then said "snake - snake" & pointed like a 2 year old. Well, the manager came, got my dog food and saw me out. Don't really remember the drive home.
I swear I am seeing Mr. Snakey out of the corner of my eye and getting recreeped all over again. I have NEVER been that close to a snake and certainly not a big one like that. That guy had some type of carrier & why the blank he didn't have that thing in it, I will never know. Eeeeeeeeeeee!!!! My skin has those goose bumps on it all over again. I do not know how my system stood it. I really don't. But I know this - there won't be much sleeping in this house tonight as I'm jumping at everything. Even Tibbe! And if Lizzie should reappear tonight somehow on the same day I had to meet Mr. Snakey up close & personal, you all will likely never hear of me again.