It's been about 18 years since I saw one in the field. My professer in college & I used to drive the roads in Florida at night catching snakes. Snakes DEFINATELY don't bother me. I was lucky, my mother was a high school science teacher. I brought a snake home from summer camp when I was 11, and it got out. My mom woke up the next morning with it staring her in the face. Without a second's hesitation, she said: "George, what are you doing out?", scooped it up off of her pillow, and put it back in it's tank!