GAAAAAAHHH! Lucky I decided to come here TODAY of all days.....OR I'd have missed your BIRTHDAY ATHYNAE!

SO Happy Birthday to : ATHYNAE, Mr CLOUDY, JACKI DICE, Liliandra, ACADIAN

Happy birthday Athynae!

Happy birthday to the King of Beasts! I hope it is a special day indeed!

Happy Birthday King Of Beasts!


Hope this birthday brings something you've always wanted! My wish for you is laughter, health, and love!

Happy Birthday, King of Beasts! I hope it's great.

A very happy birthday to King of Beasts! Have a good one!

Happy birthday King Of Beasts!

Happy birthday, y'all!

Thanks! I had a great birthday. We celebrated it at my friends house, and when his pet snake got loose, everyone but me fled the house. The funny thing about it is the fact that his snake is a corn snake, and they are harmless.

Urk, I wouldn't care if the snake was harmless or not - all it would take would be for that snake to slither by my foot and I'd set up a scream that would be heard around the world. Snakes freak me out completely, in fact I'm pretty much afraid of reptiles in general. I didn't used to know ANYTHING about them and was happy in that ignorance till a certain incident happened when I was eighteen.

I had a friend that (I always thought) loved animals like I did. I didn't visit her often (as in once) because on that visit she informs me she had two 6 foot pet snakes running loose in the apartment! URK! My (huge) purse was on the floor, she informed me that they like to crawl into purses! I couldn't run out of there quick enough to dump my purse out on the ground outside! I was terrified to use the toilet in her house because I'd heard somewhere snakes like to lay around in toilets and pop up when you sit down - GAAAAAH !!!!!

She was always talking about getting white mice from K-Mart (I thought she meant as pets - DOH!), so for her birthday I went to a regular pet store and took hours picking out two (out of hundreds) very adorable white mice that had the best personalities of any others in the large "Mouse Kingdom" they were kept in. I also bought her a fancy mouse cage with exercise wheels and interesting tunnels for the cute mice to play in. She was so excited for the gift, LOVED it (she said).

So, a couple months go by and she is moving from her apartment because her husband's job transferred her. She had 6 months left on a very (low rent) lease in a very nice complex - much better place than I was in, and the lease was renewable with only a slight increase. I jumped on taking over her lease and helping her move out.

The door was open all day, I never saw her carry out the snakes so I assumed she'd let them loose. I spent the day helping her pack the moving van one room at a time, get to the spare bedroom and there is the mouse cage empty! So I asked her if the mice died, and she laughed and said, "In a manner of speaking."

I said, "Huh?" (DOH!) - Yes, she fed them to the snakes, or rather turned them loose and let the snakes "hunt" them. I was sickened.

So, my first week in the apartment I'm cleaning it to remove any trace of snake, and I stuck a mop up to the "over-door ledge" - down drops a 6 foot snake! 2 am, I'm shrieking and running around the complex - woke up the whole place. Had the landlord go in and remove it. It was just a giant snake "skin," turns out they shed their skin - URGH! Multiply that times 4 events (couldn't get the exterminator in for days, and they said on the phone that snakes can't be guaranteed because they hide in the vents and pipes and then slither back out later)! GAAAAAH!

4 times waking up the neighbors and landlord, me running lights 24-7 and afraid to sleep - trying frantically to get hold of my friend where she moved and it was a month before she got a phone and address to me. I gave up my beautiful apartment, had to move back where I was beforehand, too scared to stay there and the landlord said he'd pitch me out if I woke the complex shrieking again.

Turns out she'd moved her snakes to some pet shop while they moved so they wouldn't be "traumatized" by all the strangers in and out and tension of moving. Do snakes get traumatized by strangers? I'd visited once as a stranger! Urk!

After that if anyone had snake type pets (or even Iguanas after a certain biting incident) - I wouldn't even visit just in case they climbed into my purse or hid in the toilet or something. To this day I am creeped out by snakes, lol.

I go on a lot of camping trips so I've ended up with a snake in my sleeping bag more than once.

YES, it happens all the time when you camp in the mountains - especially if you camp near the water (like most people do)! I love camping, but learning about snakes doing that ended my sleeping under the stars in a sleeping bag!

It's the spiders that terrify me. I can't handle them. I cringe at the thought of a spider in the house.

Don't even bring up spiders, I'll think I feel them crawling on me - URK!

Oh my goodness, the snake story!! mALX I would have been so tempted to leave a rubber snake in the bathtub for you. I wouldn’t though. One of my old roommates has a snake scare, so I know it can be serious. We had some problems when we went to Mexico for spring break. At one point we were stuck between the ocean, rocks, and two snakes. That was the last time she came with me when I went for a walk!

Also we were driving and had to stop with some other cars because there was a big “branch” lying across most of the road. Yeah, they didn’t have any trees around there. (We could see the jungle from where we were, but that branch would have had a long slither to get onto the road.) Luckily she was not the smartest blonde in the car. My other roommate distracted her while we went around it. That one even gave me a little shiver.

Wrothken, I think I missed your birthday! I hope it was happy!

Both my sons think leaving rubber snakes and spiders around to scare me is a funny joke too, lol. The colored snakes weren't bad because I knew there wouldn't be any rare poisonous snakes in my house, but the rubber spider on my keyboard or dropping down when I open the refrigerator door was another story, lol.

Wrothken, I missed your birthday too! Hope it was a great one, or that you at least got leftover cake from Jacki's birthday !!! (one for you in case you didn't).

I have made myself pee a little by slipping a fake spider into the middle of tissue box, forgetting all about it, and then being the poor fool who whips up a tissue to find the spider sitting there. Works great with those spider rings you get at Halloween, because they are very flat but still look real. Just clip off the ring part. And REMEMBER that you did it!

You completely deserve that. SPIDERS of all things.

I didn’t think I’d get any sympathy from you, KC! I wish I still had my spider trick box so I could take a video of it. It’s a cute little wooden box with a sliding lid that people just can’t resist peeking into. When you slip the lid back it’s rigged for a big fat rubber spider to pop out and whack right where your finger is on the knob. Just put it out at a party and wait for the screams.

SPEW! Between this and the kleenex box spiders my once cleaned monitor is ruined!