11-27-08...FROGS AND SNAKES
I am afraid of frogs. My skin just crawls and I can't breathe well If I even see one. Put one on me and I come completely unglued. So much so that I have passed out.
My Brother Brought one in the house one day and I cleared the bed in one bound. I mean I was on the other side. TRUE!!! Why you say? Well I'm'a'gonna tell ya.
When I was a kid we had to improvise a lot in our play. We played with sticks, tin cans, home made sling shots and stilts ect. We had been to Prissy Sillies house and they had a bus outside with pedals and seats. We were just amazed but knew we couldn't have one.
One day we were sitting in the yard and saw a ladder her Daddy had made. A home made ladder. It was two long boards(two by fours? I dont rightly know) but to these two boards were about eight flat planks nailed on at intervals. Wala! When you sit it up against something you could climb the ladder in to trees, the roof, the barn, the chicken roosts,ect. You get my drift. We laid the ladder down flat on the ground and sat on the planks. (our bus seats). Brenda and I took turns being the driver, who stood on the front. Paul, Norman, and the other one of us sat on the planks and called out orders to the driver. We were having a rip roarin good time. YEP! The boys tired of it quick like and left to greener pastures. Brenda's older Sister came out. Brenda was the driver and I was the rider. Tut got behind me and all at once she jumped off and ran in the house like all the demons in hell were after her. Brenda looked back at me and she hightailed it off too. What in the heck is wrong with y'all I hollered. Just bout then My Auntie ran out the door and said, Sit real still Clydene. Well now can you see me sittin' real still? Heck no! I started to get up too. Auntie got serious then. Clydene if you move I'll whip you till you can't move. Well Shoot fire Auntie, What the hecks wrong with you anyway. Auntie gave me that LOOK! You know the ones Mama's give their kids? Don't have to say a word Just that Look stopped you in your tracks. Auntie was talking real low now. She went to the side of the house and got a hoe and started toward me. Well Good Lord surely my Auntie wasn't a goin' to hit me with a hoe. Shoot fire I was still as I could be. Durn, I'm'a'thinkin' I better move, Auntie's went goofy on me. She's a gonna hit me with that hoe sure as shootin I put my hand down to get myself up and touched something so cold and slick, and I thought slimy. I started screamin. I mean I was screechin and hollerin. I felt somethin on my leg then kinda wigglin' and movin' into my lap. I looked down (and it's a good thing I did) just as Auntie brought that hoe down and slung somethin' or other out in the garden. And in my lap was the biggest ol' frog I had ever seen in my life. Sittin' there with its ugly eyes lookin up at me. I was unhinged, unglued, and cock eyed with fear. Couldn't have moved then if it had grabbed me and shook me. They said later that I was as white as a sheet and my eyes were rolling and crossin' and I fell over on my face right on top of that frog. Oh My gosh, Oh my goodness Lord help me was going through my mind though I couldnt say a word . I was petrified. Stone cold petrified. They all finally gathered round me and Auntie carried me in the house while Tut ran down to get My Mama.
Well Folks, That frog was dead. Still don't know if it died of fright from me or that big ol copperhead snake. Yep! Seems the snake was tryin' to swallow the frog and started to crawl under the ladder or over it one I can't remember. But it was comin' on up in my lap. All I saw was the frog cause' Auntie gave me THE LOOK and I froze. She slung the snake away from me and the frog got out of its mouth right there on my lap. Oh jeepers. That durn frog scared me so bad I've been scared of em since. And Brenda is as scared of snakes as I am Frogs. You say it makes more sense to be scared of snakes? For You Maybe. NOT ME!
Everyone kept trying to tell me that frog probley' saved my life cause that snake woulda bit me. But heck fire I didn't even see the snake, didn't touch the snake, didn't see the snake starin' at me either. Auntie said she just knew I was a gonna move and maybe the frog would get away and the snake would bite me. Heck she should'a known just to give me The look in the first place and I'd a never moved. I thought my Auntie was'a'gonna kill me with that hoe just cause I was moving. Everybody else moved didn't they? She never threatened to kill em with a hoe cause they moved?!!! We all laughed at that later but it was much later for me. YEP! Just don't ever put a frog on me or I'll get a hoe after you!!!!!
