Things My Wife Finds In The Pool

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

Today, when I got home from work my wife met me at the door with an odd look on her face and asked me how my day was... now.. I could tell something was up... So I ignored her question and asked how her days was... that when she pointed at a bucket next to the pool and said "Go look in that, but be carefull." She had a board over the top.. so I slid it back and looked in... to find a small Water Moccasin lunging at me.

She had caught in in the bucket BEFORE she looked it up online to see what it was... crazy woman could ahvbe been bitten... GAH!!!

i took it out to the canal and let it go... Swimming is going to be different now...

[Msterbeau]

Today, when I got home from work my wife met me at the door with an odd look on her face and asked me how my day was... now.. I could tell something was up... So I ignored her question and asked how her days was... that when she pointed at a bucket next to the pool and said "Go look in that, but be carefull." She had a board over the top.. so I slid it back and looked in... to find a small Water Moccasin lunging at me.

She had caught in in the bucket BEFORE she looked it up online to see what it was... crazy woman could ahvbe been bitten... GAH!!!

i took it out to the canal and let it go... Swimming is going to be different now...

Damn. Um... no offense, but that was not smart. Then again... she might have thought it was harmless. Though their behavior is supposed to appear aggressive. I would have beat the hell out of it with a long stick.

[know_buddy_kares]

Damn. Um... no offense, but that was not smart. Then again... she might have thought it was harmless. Though their behavior is supposed to appear aggressive. I would have beat the hell out of it with a long stick.

Yeah, kudos on her for catching it, but shame on her for not telling you exactly what it was. That's some BS. But glad you guys are ok.

For anyone who has a pool up here in michigan, don't worry, the ONLY poisonous snake we have is the Michigan Rattle Snake. Which quite honestly, are moderately docile. They won't fuck with you as long as you don't fuck with them. There are water snakes here that LOOK like water moccasins in their younger years, however they're just a regular snake. So if you get a snake in your pool, don't freak, it's harmless. I used to play with those snakes all the bloody time and get yelled at all the time by other kids that it's a water moccasins... they didn't know what they were talking about obviously

Sux to be in florida eh?

[Fierce Critter]

Yeah.... fuck Florida.

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

She was safe about it. She used a shovel to scoop the snake into a bucket and then dropped the board over the top.

She knew i wouldn;t just stick my hand in the bucket... I knew something bad was in it.

Aggressive doesn;t even cover it though.. that thing was striking at everything that came near it.

[Sybil]

AWWW!

I grew up in Dothan, Alabama.

We had an inground pool.

Us 3 kids had to clean it out.

My bro and I ..on a few occassions.. found water moccasins.

And sadly, we found a bunny once too.. bunny was takin a LOOONG nap.

:(

[creatureofthenyte]

I think your wife handled the situation well.

I just hope you never come home to find a gator in your pool or back yard.

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

so do we... i doubt we will, there is a 6 foot sea wall at the canal. Not to say that is 100% protection.

Wild hogs are actually a higher danger.. I have seen three in the wilder areas near our house.

[ttogreh]

My sister goes to Florida on a semi regular basis. "Come on ttogreh, the ocean is beautiful"... and she comes home with jelly fish stings.

Florida is an odd creation of the Ice age. It'll be gone for a good five thousand years when the ice caps melt enough. Good riddance.

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

None of the Ice Ages ever made it this far south. Florida was most likely created by the meteror that hit the Yukatan and formed most of the Gulf basin.

[ttogreh]

All of the water held up in the caps lowers the sea level, thereby allowing Florida to be. Melting Icecaps = higher sea level = Drowned Florida.

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

but, the Ice caps are not a creation of the Ice age, nor is Florida. Thats all I was pointing out. and most of florida would still be there.

[Medea]

Actually, the -much- more likely happenstance for the loss of Florida is that it's baserock is all limestone, which is amazingly water-soluble. Florida will probably be long gone before California falls off, as it's bedrock will have been dissolved from underneath it.

EDIT: On topic. Gah! I certainly wouldn't enjoy finding a water moccasin in my backyard. This is why I don't like Florida. That and the fire ants that tried to eat my Uncle Tom. And that it's mostly the home of old folks waiting to die (no offense grandma and grandpa!) and dads who don't want to pay child support.

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

Good points all Medea.

The ants and old people are what bother me the most. Have not met any dead's avoiding child support yet, at least not that I know of... but I think you find them everywhere.

[Reaper]

Today, when I got home from work my wife met me at the door with an odd look on her face and asked me how my day was... now.. I could tell something was up... So I ignored her question and asked how her days was... that when she pointed at a bucket next to the pool and said "Go look in that, but be carefull." She had a board over the top.. so I slid it back and looked in... to find a small Water Moccasin lunging at me.

She had caught in in the bucket BEFORE she looked it up online to see what it was... crazy woman could ahvbe been bitten... GAH!!!

i took it out to the canal and let it go... Swimming is going to be different now...

From the subject line of the thread I thought I was going to see someone reiterate the baby ruth bar in the pool scene from Caddyshack. That had to be one of the funniest moments of the whole movie.

[ttogreh]

Ice... is not the creation... of the ice age. My brain hurts.

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

Not ice, the Ice caps. The Ice caps are not an affect, creation or fossil of any of the various the ice ages. They are a separate phenomenon. Follow now?

[Vivian]

i would really really hate to find a snake in my pool (if i had one). I would probably screech like the girl I am, and demand rent from the snake, cuz I ain't going near the damn thing. He can live peacefully in the pool until he dies of old age.

Me + snakes = phobia

I can handle someone draping a boa constrictor on my shoulder, I can handle garden snakes at a pet store, but I cannot handle a snake in a pool or in my house. I'm just not that cool.

I think I might have been a mouse in a former life lol

~V

*Edited for spelling mistake