i'm with Akdare. all snakes are
deadly in more ways than one.
when i was in junior high school i had to walk past the house of my first big crush. she always managed to be in her front yard when i came by (i think she kinda liked me, too), and we'd have a nice chat that made my blood boil. one day the teacher told me to take one of the school's snakes home for school break. got to her house, she screamed and ran inside. (it was a freakin king snake, for godsake)
4 years of high school after that and not once did she ever look me in the eye.
bumped into her at a movie theater and she was with her apparently reptile-fearing hubby. first thing outta her mouth was "hi D, you still like snakes?"