i ran like a sissy little girl once when i looked down and there was a rattler coiled up under my foot as i was stepping down.

then there was the time when i was about 5 years old and i tried to put my boot on and there was a baby rattler poking out of my boot, my mom froze it in the deep freezer so we could identify them quickly in the future, she also froze some copperheads and bigger rattlers so that us boys be able to identify those too.

then there was the time when what i thought was a cotton mouth grabed hold of my shoe after i steped on his body, again i kicked my shoe half way across the river with the snake attached and ran like a sissy little girl again. that snake might have been a nacurl snake they look some what similar to a cotton mouth and at the rate of my sprint i couldn't identify it too well. lol