Stick around a while, you'll get all kinds of edumicated
To relate, as a child I thought snakes were "neato" I was only 7 or 8 the first time I ever got bit. But I still could not leave them alone, if one crawled in front of me, reflex dive and scoop it up.
I did that with a rattler at age 12, "look mom, this one is different"
Of course I had no frickin idea what I was holding, except a snake.
Well it's 30+ years later, and I realize that I am only beginning to learn the good stuff. These creatures are very fascinating, once upon a time it was thought that a snake ONLY had 2 primary reasons to exist, Eat & Breed. After all what else could an animal with no limbs do?
Now it is thought that maybe something else may also be going on inside those little brains.
It has taken eons for mankind to relate to snakes other than the evil serpent that tempted with apples in the garden of eden, or the mythological Medusa with snakes for hair. Snakes invoke fear in many, a fear so strong they will murder on sight.
Imagine if Great Britain had an abundance of rodent eating snakes kept in the barns and grain storage & crawling in the castles during the dark ages, an easy solution that would have spared millions of human lives.
Unwitting peasants & nobility chopped up the solution to the plague, and never thought twice.
And if someone challenges you, simply say that once upon a time, the world was flat and anyone who spoke otherwise was burned for witchcraft. Then let them hold Winnie