Over The Edge - "Did I tell you about the snake in my house?"

I don’t like bugs. Creepy, crawly things make me weak in the knees. Lizards are a notch higher on the fear barometer. I can hardly sleep at night when I see one lurch off a potted plant. I quickly slam my bedroom door lest they come looking for me and crawl up on my bed to get a good look, maybe take a small bite. Who am I kidding? They are small enough to walk right under my bedroom door! You can see why I don’t get any sleep when I know there is one stalking me.
Imagine lizard anxiety ramped to, oh, say the way you felt about swimming at the beach the day after you saw “Jaws.” Except that instead of a lizard intruder, your intruder is a snake. A snake that is possibly not only poisonous, but the kind that can unhinge its jaws and swallow things much larger than itself, like a human foot or a hand.

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