My wife hates snakes and I love having them around to keep the mice issues down. I was out washing the truck one day and a large black snake was stretched out on the side walk sunning itself and the wife walked out and thought it was part of the garden hose and flipped it with her foot. Then it slithered away - she took 2 steps, covered about 30 yards and hit the house and locked the door behind her screaming the whole way! I laughed my ass off. She was pissed at me for it! Not sure what I did. She gets all freaked out when she even hits one on the road in the car. I have a nice size one that lives in a barn of mine and as long as I know he is there we are cool. Every once in a while we surprise each other, but part as friends. My wife would prefer I run him over with the lawn mower! Snakes like these are our friends.