Close encounter with snakes

Did you have a close encounter with snakes? Well, I have been so close with snakes multiple times that I was almost bitten. I have even killed snakes three times before they tried to bite me. That was many years ago in my farm house. I did not want to kill snakes but I had to because of safety issues. They had entered out farmhouse.
 
A few times. There used to be copper heads really bad where I lived with my parents out in the country growing up. We lived by a small lake and they were pretty common. Every now and then I would cross paths with a garter snake or the common grass snake.
 
Yes, I've had a very close and physical encounter with a snake. It even bit me in the process. I was lucky not to have died by the poison of the snake. I hated snakes ever since after the encounter.