I never have had a fear of snake s I grew up on the Fla Ala border and I used to coon hunt and fish all over the beaver ponds and tuper ponds and never give it a second thought But I've grown older and I will wear long pants now Also living in SE Tn the swamp habitat is kinda limited Anyway My Daddy was deathly afraid of snakes and of course me knowing that Well you get the picture We were fishing a farm pond in Fla and we were probably about 100 yds apart and I caught a hog nose snake it was about 4' long so I proceeded to stick him down in the tackle box Most of our tackle was up on the top shelves it was one of the boxes you folded open and the trays opened when you did it Well sure enough the old man got hung up and have some tackle well me being the good son I was I took the box over to him and.....When he opened that box and that snake tried to get out he screamed and I was rolling Well I never knew the old man could move that fast I was laughing so hard My sides were hurting and so were other parts of my anatomy He didn't even let me ride home that day 5 miles is a pretty long walk and of course when I got home I gave my best I'm sorry speech But every time I'd look at him I'd break out laughing He'd get mad and I'd be in trouble again It took him a long time to get over that one He kept his tackle box close to him after that But every once in a while If I would act like I was watching him otu of the corner of my eye he'd make me come open it I shouldn't have done that to the old man but it sure was fun The Old Man's been gone about 15 yrs now and I still miss him but I always have to smile when I think about the look he had when he opened that box