It's spring. When a young woman's lustful desires...

[White Fox]

It's spring.

 

When the lustful desires of a young lady turn to... Well... Laying eggs!

 

Just that time of year when the female snapping turtles come up out of the ditches, to lay their eggs on the side of the road in the soft gravel, to catch the heat of the sun, etc. It can indeed be interesting to see people try to move them. I've not yet saw anyone get bit, but close. People are dumb enough to just put their hands down and try to grab those huge turtles.

 

There are times one needs to give these young ladies a helping hand to cross the road when they decide that "This side is not quite right. That other side would be so much better. No matter all of those cars zipping by!"

 

They truly have a face that only a moma could love! "Homely as He&%" would not describe it properly. Some of the other turtles can be kind of cute looking, but the snappers look like they were created by the Devil after he had been out drinking for a week strait without a pause. And then decided to design something. Well, the snappers look like something like that, after it had lived for a hundred years when it was only supposed to live 10. That about sums it up.

 

But those young lads seem to find them attractive. As those eggs keep a comin. And keep a hatchin. I'll admit that I had a girl friend that looked a bit like one once. And she and I ... ! Well, that's another story. For another nice spring day.

 

W

[Worker 11811]

We get a few of those in this neck of the woods:

 

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(Clickable pic.)

 

Ugly little cuss-buckets! Ain't they?!

 

On one occasion, I was driving along when I saw somebody attempting to coax one off the road. I pulled off, got out of the car and walked up to the guy. I told him, "That's an alligator snapping turtle! You don't want to fool around with those!"

 

"Oh? Why not?" came the answer.

 

So I went and got a twig from an old, dead tree branch, about 3 feet long and just about "finger size" in diameter. I looked at him and mustered up my best "Crocodile Hunter" accent.

"Ya' down't wanna' muck around with these babies! They'll bite ya' finga' clean-off!"

 

I taunted the turtle with it and in less than 30 seconds... SNAP!!

The stick was suddenly in two pieces!

 

The guy's reaction was "Crikie!!" as he jumped back about 3 feet.

(What he really said sounded more like "cheese and rice!" but we can't say that here. )

 

He got back into his car and sped off pretty quickly after that!

[Guest]

That's a nice one.

 

Like in the creeks of Ole Virginny and my childhood

 

 

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