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So I had something kind of wild happen to me last night that really showed me how badly I panic when the chips are down.

In the mid-evening, I was just kind of chilling at my computer, when I suddenly started hearing a weird clicking noise. I thought it might be something wrong with my fan, or maybe a bug, but I didn't pay it much mind. However, I then saw my cat absolutely freaking the fuck out near my bookcase and grew suspicious that something was up.

I got up and looked, and to my absolute shock and horror, I find a 4~ foot long snake.

I know that some people really like snakes. I do not. Between just the shock of seeing it and the fact that it was making an unfamiliar clicking noise, I feared the absolute worst that it might be a rattlesnake. I grabbed my phone and my cat (who wasn't having it at all and absolutely shredded my arm as I was grabbing her against her will and carrying her away, but I was not going to take any chances).

(Bonus pic of the arm shortly after it happened, I guess)

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/9/9/1/AADDXjAAE7bX.jpg

So uh, I got to a bathroom, the safest room I could think of for myself and my cat, and just legit broke down. I tried calling my parents first, because I was just flat-out panicked at that point, but I couldn't even speak, I was just trembling and sobbing. After some negotiating and no one being super sure what to do with no pest control place nearby and not being sure if the police would even help with that, we settled on calling up a family friend to help, since he had some experience with that.

It was a long wait, where I largely just avoided the fuck out of the snake, but the family friend came and (unfortunately) killed the snake. I do sincerely feel guilty that it ended like that, as the snake didn't do anything wrong and just happened to somehow get inside, but the family friend kind of made the call and acted.

Honestly, I feel pretty shitty about how I handled the whole thing. Between how I broke down, the conclusions I jumped to, and just being paralyzed by fear, I was pretty much useless for that entire thing.

Other lesson of the day: living on the ground floor of a place that's in the woods in southern Missouri really, really sucks. The cost of living is quite cheap, but full ass snakes inside is just a bit more than I'm capable of handling.