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I forgot about this. I think my brain has pushed this episode so deep into my psyche that I don’t hardly ever think about it because I was so terrified that day.

When I was in college, I scouted cotton/soybeans during the summers. I was in Sardis over in Dallas county one morning scouting a bean field and the beans were up to my waist and I could not see the ground or where I was stepping. For those of u who don’t know, when scouting beans, you have a canvas drop cloth with wooden dowels on each end. You spread the cloth on the ground between the rows and shake the beans over the cloth then then pick it up and see what bugs/worms fall on it. I was probably on my 2nd or 3rd field of the morning and stopped to make a check. When I knelt down to put the cloth between the rows I was face to face (like a foot away) with good sized rattlesnake that was laying in the row I was. He was already drawn back and I just reflexively threw the drop cloth up in front of my face and BAM! he struck the cloth right in front of my face! I screamed like a little girl and pretty much ran/stumbled back to the truck. I prob ruined a pair of underwear too. It was the only time I think I have ever had a panic attack. I was a blubbering mess and I just went home. I called my boss and told him I’d stay late the next day and finish the job as I had about a dozen or so fields left. He was pissed off that I left but I was in no shape to work that day. However, later that afternoon I got up with some fraternity brothers and we proceeded to do our best to cause a world wide shortage on Miller Lite.

I can still see that bastage pulled back in a “S” shape with that tongue flicking less than an arms length from my face. That’s the stuff nightmares are made of.