Don’t think we’ll be walking in the woods anymore, we both had ticks yesterday
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Your Kitty is one of the coolest looking kitty's that I have ever seen.
KAS
Your Kitty is one of the coolest looking kitty's that I have ever seen.
KAS
Snakes ARE the worst. The giant freaking flying cockroaches, you can fight them off even if they get in your hair. You can kill them regardless of how much you have to annoy them first. Spiders? They suck but they are doable if under a certain size. I would not care to attempt to deal with a human sized, giant spider. With SNAKES it is impossible. First of all the right snake can totally kill you. TOTALLY. Also even if it's not it's like, I guess when it comes to most things be it fight or flight (they always leave out the "freeze" in that and they shouldn't. But yeah, with snakes it's an IMMEDATE reaction. Like, I haven't even realized I am running away screaming at high volume until a few minutes after it has happened. The right snake by the right side of the right road and the right truck could probably turn me into a thin, red paste. Because it is an INSTINCT.
Most other things, for me, it's usually a short freeze but I'm not stuck I am assessing the situation. Like the giant flying cockroach "Freeze-- can I coexist with this in the house? NOPE. Is the husband here? NOPE. Am *I* the one that is going to have to kill it?" YEP. Okay I need the giant red fly swatter and we both fight for our lives.
Everything but the dang snakes. I don't get because as a kid I would hold giant Madagascar cockroaches with interest, whatever revoltingness they had I was just like, "Cool man, I will shove my hand in there." Tarantulas even. My mom kinda trained me into her spider phobia but she grew up in Australia and so she had it BAD. She was showering once and a giant tarantula or some such beast just sort of idly floated down and landed on her bare shoulder. I asked her what she DID? She said she very quietly and horrified exited the shower and wandered the house naked until she found someone to whom she could say, "Could you please get this off me?" She lived in Broken Hill and they had an OUTHOUSE full of spiders. She had chronic constipation as a kid and I never asked her, "Hey mom did you ever put together the outhouse and the condition?" Mainly because I don't want to either worsen or cure her Crone's disease I mean it could go either way. So I have a mild spider issue but nothing like snakes.
But if I had an outhouse like that, filled with snakes, I would not develop constipation. Although I guess it was adaptive. I would go out and poop in the middle of the night oh behind the rose bushes or something. LOL.
SNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKEES. Oh screw it they're everywhere. Maybe not the Sahara desert but like, nature, yeah.
Anna
Most other things, for me, it's usually a short freeze but I'm not stuck I am assessing the situation. Like the giant flying cockroach "Freeze-- can I coexist with this in the house? NOPE. Is the husband here? NOPE. Am *I* the one that is going to have to kill it?" YEP. Okay I need the giant red fly swatter and we both fight for our lives.
Everything but the dang snakes. I don't get because as a kid I would hold giant Madagascar cockroaches with interest, whatever revoltingness they had I was just like, "Cool man, I will shove my hand in there." Tarantulas even. My mom kinda trained me into her spider phobia but she grew up in Australia and so she had it BAD. She was showering once and a giant tarantula or some such beast just sort of idly floated down and landed on her bare shoulder. I asked her what she DID? She said she very quietly and horrified exited the shower and wandered the house naked until she found someone to whom she could say, "Could you please get this off me?" She lived in Broken Hill and they had an OUTHOUSE full of spiders. She had chronic constipation as a kid and I never asked her, "Hey mom did you ever put together the outhouse and the condition?" Mainly because I don't want to either worsen or cure her Crone's disease I mean it could go either way. So I have a mild spider issue but nothing like snakes.
But if I had an outhouse like that, filled with snakes, I would not develop constipation. Although I guess it was adaptive. I would go out and poop in the middle of the night oh behind the rose bushes or something. LOL.
SNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKEES. Oh screw it they're everywhere. Maybe not the Sahara desert but like, nature, yeah.
Anna
I am deathly afraid of snakes due to childhood trauma inflicted on me by twin brothers, Cory and Kent, I called friends. But I'm even more afraid of turning down the wrong road, finding myself lost in Deliverance the movie. Squealing like a pig. In WV I've seen bathtubs and pickup truck beds used as flower gardens. Old tires used as flower beds.
And I've never squealed at all. Love that state though and visit yearly. 
I am familiar with Appalachia and I find it entertaining. The husband was busy checking out his princess for marriage (I had no clue I thought we were just dating and having fun.) So he took me to the haunts of his childhood, and some of them.... Well I visited Thailand as a kid, the forest service toilet did not scare me off one bit. The old graves all disreputable-- cool. Getting woken up by the park rangers for sleeping in the car-- that one sucks but not for ME I could have totally said the husband was holding me hostage if things went bad. I wouldn't PROBABLY but they just told us to move, but it's nice you know to know my OPTIONS. He took me to some of his old drinking haunts one of them had sawdust on the floor and my comment was, "I need to pee." My husband was like, "Honey, maybe not here." So I said to the bar... creature, "May I use your restroom facilities?" and he was like, "Sure." They weren't so awful. LOL; I have been tried, tested, even forced to splash around in an icy stream to prove my 'worthiness" (again just thought I was having fun."
So I'm not that afraid of that sort of environment it can be really fun. I also TOTALLY believe the husband that it's probably very easy to lose an enemy or two with no repercussions like the woods are dark and deep.
But I'm not super scared of the people or anything must of it.... You just learn who you are supposed to deal with IDK. I am sure there are scary things and I look forward to well, meeting some.
But I *lived* and *worked* in East Baltimore when it was the murder capital of the state.
However, if you visit I will share my dining room table with you while I SCREAM for the husband to come kill it. LOL.
Anna
So I'm not that afraid of that sort of environment it can be really fun. I also TOTALLY believe the husband that it's probably very easy to lose an enemy or two with no repercussions like the woods are dark and deep.
But I'm not super scared of the people or anything must of it.... You just learn who you are supposed to deal with IDK. I am sure there are scary things and I look forward to well, meeting some.
But I *lived* and *worked* in East Baltimore when it was the murder capital of the state.
However, if you visit I will share my dining room table with you while I SCREAM for the husband to come kill it. LOL.
Anna
kas122461 Holeee! They still sound fantastic!
Not quite as famous, but these are the Barenaked Ladies. Canadian, no women but were initially banned from a New Year's Eve concert due to their name. The band founder (with the best voice) Steven Page had drug problems and has since left the band.
I think I posted this about a month ago, and it was really good also, and yes they still sound great.
KAS
Yes, that’s true.
As with some other parts of the world that don’t have snakes, ‘twas glaciation that did the deed.
As with some other parts of the world that don’t have snakes, ‘twas glaciation that did the deed.
Yeah, and it wasn't the Plague that led the Children away with the rats in Germany, it was totally the Pied Piper. Or some other event that like your kid said, "Mommy, why isn't Fred/John/Smith here anymore? it wasn't cancer, it was the Pied Piper.
Also like dude, I haven't looked this up much that is one of the creepiest childhood stories ever. If my kid ever asked me that I would not invent a man with a Piper and a grudge against my kid's parents (which would be ME for refusing to pay for services rendered) like that is TRAGICALLY more frightening than, ."Son, Johnny died of leukemia." Because let's face it yes I would play 100 questions with cancer about Johnny since Johnny is GONE now, and I am the one the kid relied on. I wouldn't want him to think like, HOLY CRUD if my mom gets poor I get locked up in a cave forever.
Anyway, now that Hawaii is RUINED (yeah let's face it that was a long time ago) I don't want to go ANY of those places ,especially not SOBER.
Gosh. I guess the snakes and I will have to coexist, and well it will be what it is. Maybe I can implore my Creator to just create aa snake bubble around me.
Anna
Also like dude, I haven't looked this up much that is one of the creepiest childhood stories ever. If my kid ever asked me that I would not invent a man with a Piper and a grudge against my kid's parents (which would be ME for refusing to pay for services rendered) like that is TRAGICALLY more frightening than, ."Son, Johnny died of leukemia." Because let's face it yes I would play 100 questions with cancer about Johnny since Johnny is GONE now, and I am the one the kid relied on. I wouldn't want him to think like, HOLY CRUD if my mom gets poor I get locked up in a cave forever.
Anyway, now that Hawaii is RUINED (yeah let's face it that was a long time ago) I don't want to go ANY of those places ,especially not SOBER.
Gosh. I guess the snakes and I will have to coexist, and well it will be what it is. Maybe I can implore my Creator to just create aa snake bubble around me.
Anna
I was gonna do it 666 times but I got bored. That was a horrible thing to see right before I climb into bed.
Anna
I can't remember if I was on the maim or kill list, but this might take me off both.
Hella hard to drive to WalMart or CVS though. Do you prefer rigid (most women do) or less rigid?
Rigid is what I prefer, but everyone is off all lists I am gonnna spend ALL my energy on maiming @ENAUD and he can take care of the royal bicycles. With no legs. Not even prosthetic ones,
@ENAUD you are behaving like my older brother. But, occasionally, he was nice. I need to you be nice for a while here, Exploiting someone's specific phobia is really cruel. If you don't have one, I get that you do not understand. Go talk to your wife.
Like my son said when he was 14 and a clown came up and started talking to us my kiddo got really tense and looked away. I had to say to the clown "I'm really sorry, my son is uh, well he doesn't like clowns."
I turned to my kid and said, "still got coulrophobia, eh?" He a like, "MOM it's a REAL disease, I looked it UP!" From my first Halloween and I tried on a black wig and the toddler burst into tears, well, he's afraid of all caricatures. Don't even get me started on Barney birthday parties, Barney is terrifying to EVERYONE. But, we'd have to go hide until he left.
That giant snake thing was the first thing I saw this morning. It wasn't as scary though, it is clearly dead and also, not real. Snakes don't get that big an even if they do, well if they're dead, whatever.
If I lived in cave person times I'd probably eat it.
However let me repeat before this goes further, exploiting someone's specific phobia is unkind. It makes the internet unsafe. it is a REAL disease. It's not funny, it's not cute, it is MEAN.
Don't think I haven't tried exposure therapy either, like planes. I can get on a plane now although I don't enjoy it (hit a downdraft while pregnant, the plane sort of fell 1K feet and then hit the air, hard. Everything and everyone not strapped in went flying. There were dents in the fuselage from people's heads and luggage and airline carts everywhere. Fire and ambulance met us on the tarmac. People were crying and bleeding. I was not hurt I ALWAYS wear my seatbelt on planes for these kind of reasons. To make matters worse the pilot sort of cheerfully got on the intercom and said "well ladies and gentlemen I have never had that happen in my 25 years of flying." I was like, "Someone needs to teach that pilot to reassure. He doesn't know if a wing is gonna fall off clearly." t was very turbulent the rest of the way. So I had to get over that one and I did. I didn't work for snakes though they are too terrifying. The plane thing was easier because like that was an instilled, not an intrinsic phobia. Stop it.
Anna
@ENAUD you are behaving like my older brother. But, occasionally, he was nice. I need to you be nice for a while here, Exploiting someone's specific phobia is really cruel. If you don't have one, I get that you do not understand. Go talk to your wife.
Like my son said when he was 14 and a clown came up and started talking to us my kiddo got really tense and looked away. I had to say to the clown "I'm really sorry, my son is uh, well he doesn't like clowns."
I turned to my kid and said, "still got coulrophobia, eh?" He a like, "MOM it's a REAL disease, I looked it UP!" From my first Halloween and I tried on a black wig and the toddler burst into tears, well, he's afraid of all caricatures. Don't even get me started on Barney birthday parties, Barney is terrifying to EVERYONE. But, we'd have to go hide until he left.
That giant snake thing was the first thing I saw this morning. It wasn't as scary though, it is clearly dead and also, not real. Snakes don't get that big an even if they do, well if they're dead, whatever.
If I lived in cave person times I'd probably eat it.
However let me repeat before this goes further, exploiting someone's specific phobia is unkind. It makes the internet unsafe. it is a REAL disease. It's not funny, it's not cute, it is MEAN.
Don't think I haven't tried exposure therapy either, like planes. I can get on a plane now although I don't enjoy it (hit a downdraft while pregnant, the plane sort of fell 1K feet and then hit the air, hard. Everything and everyone not strapped in went flying. There were dents in the fuselage from people's heads and luggage and airline carts everywhere. Fire and ambulance met us on the tarmac. People were crying and bleeding. I was not hurt I ALWAYS wear my seatbelt on planes for these kind of reasons. To make matters worse the pilot sort of cheerfully got on the intercom and said "well ladies and gentlemen I have never had that happen in my 25 years of flying." I was like, "Someone needs to teach that pilot to reassure. He doesn't know if a wing is gonna fall off clearly." t was very turbulent the rest of the way. So I had to get over that one and I did. I didn't work for snakes though they are too terrifying. The plane thing was easier because like that was an instilled, not an intrinsic phobia. Stop it.
Anna
I refuse to be removed.
Now, as to overcoming fear(s) I think mine are well founded and have not tried to overcome them. I can live with the few. And now way am I going to try the G. Gordon Liddy approach. (reference 6 on Wiki). For those that don't remember, He was part of the infamous Watergate scandal.
The only other part I remember was when the news showed John Dean's sportscar which was British racing green.
I think she likes ribbed!!!I can't remember if I was on the maim or kill list, but this might take me off both.
Do you prefer rigid (most women do) or less rigid?
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I would be cautious of the Phantom of Flatwoods. Just sayin'.
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