I'll bet the garden snakes in Texas are 3.5' long!

Yeah... I know.

Minds me a **** the ninth. He was close to 4' long. I had a lotta pet snakes. I used ta walk him on a string. Used ta feed him frogs from down at the culvert. Tethered him to the oil fill pipe one day. And, when I was coming home from school, my old man came home early and saw him (her?) for the first time and pulled an RCAF with death from above by leaping over the step railing as I was shouting NOOOOOO!

I never kept another snake as a pet. Dad was upset on accounta he didn't know it was a pet but I was inconsolable.

The day that Mrs. Cole from two houses over stopped by the tree in the front yard and asked what I was doing with the string in the tree was priceless. Did I mention **** was about four feet long? I got my ass kicked for that! She skinned her knees when she fell running down the driveway.