Well i have documented before that i am no lover of snakes. We are lucky over here that we don't have many snakes but we do have adders which are poisonous and native to the north-east moors near to me. Now on a school trip many moons ago we were in said moor land on a field hike when somebody up front shouted "Look an adder".......

And i swear i turned and ran the 40 miles back home before the day was out!!!

That was as close as i ever got