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What Are You Scared Of?

Posted on March 26, 2014 10 Comments

What are you scared of?

All summer long I have been on the look out for snakes. With all the spring rain, and frogs, and mice, I was sure it would be a bad snake season, but I have not seen a single one… until today.

On a cool, foggy morning in Autumn I see a big, fat, brown snake slither across our driveway into the grass.

All snakes around here are of the deadly variety, they are quite common, and I have an irrational fear of them.

I am petrified of snakes. What are you scared of?



{Image from the Royal Australian Historical Society, via Flickr. }

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  1. Jo @Countrylifeexperiment says

    Snakes are my big thing, but around here they are also a fact of life. I also hate rodents and spiders. Unfortunately they also like farms. Reconsidering whether moving here was a good idea!!!

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    • katepickle says

      Yeah they are a fact of life around here too…
      I am ok with spiders, and can deal with rodents, except when they attack me… but between the snakes and the crappy internet I am with on the rethinking the move to the country! LOL

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  2. Kate Lloyd says

    During our last visit to our holiday house we came across three very dangerous snakes (tiger, red belly and another one we couldn’t identify) in three days. It has been the perfect weather for them. Yep, I’m not a fan at all! EEEEEEEK.

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    • katepickle says

      They tell me the snakes are more scared of us than we are of them, but I’ve never seen any of the snakes I’ve encountered run away to vomit! LOL

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  3. jode says

    oh gawd i hate snakes…been on the lookout here too and can absolutely guarantee I am more scared of them than me! Really not loving the rat that has taken up residence in my lounge though…I know they are small but I am petrified!

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    • katepickle says

      We have two rats in our lounge room… but they are pets, and live in a cage, and are really quite cute… though I am betting you don’t agree Jode!
      I’ve spent a lot of time explaining to my kids that some people don’t like rats and that we need to respect that and remove the pets when they come over! LOL

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  4. Em @ snowingindoors says

    I don’t like creepy crawly bugs like centipedes or earwigs, but I’m grateful at least that in the UK none of the things in our garden can do more than scare us!

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    • katepickle says

      I don’t like earwigs either… I think it is the name, always makes me imagine them crawling into ears!!!

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  5. Christie - Childhood 101 says

    Spiders! Hate them!!!

    Snakes too but they are not really likely to slither across my driveway in suburbia ;)

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  6. Kristie says

    Oh I am so scared of snakes as well. We have seen a heap this season. A tiger snake last week that slithered into the next door neighbours wood pile. So horrible. We were up at the block a few weeks ago as well, had just arrived when the boys yelled out snake! A brown snake was just making his way across the site. It’s funny, the boys have seen quite a few now and don’t usually freak out, while I sit there shaking for half an hour!

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