Well, that was different...

[Downeaster]

Hopped in the car to head for our next section of road to walk (picking up cans while getting some exercise) and about a minute from the house, SWMBO let out a screech!

Da Fuq? She pointed and I saw about 6 inches of the ass-end of a garter snake sticking out between the passenger's side A-pillar and the windshield gasket. It managed to slither out of sight before I could get stopped and try to evict it.

Came back from our walk and the little bastige was sunning himself on the dash. And again, slithered back into the A-pillar before I could grab it.

My luck, the little shit will die in there and the car will reek for weeks.

 

[Grimly]

It may cause a stink before that.
"If disturbed, a garter snake may coil and strike, but it typically hides its head and flails its tail. These snakes will also discharge a malodorous, musky-scented secretion from a gland near the cloaca. This secretion from North American garter snakes contains seven highly odoriferous volatile components: acetic, propanoic, 2-methylpropanoic, butanoic, and 3-methylbutanoic acids; and trimethylamine, and 2-piperidone."

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garter_snake

 

[Downeaster]

It may cause a stink before that.

Yabbut my wife can change her skivvies...

 

[Downeaster]

A guy on another board says that it wasn't a garter snake, it was a windshield viper...

 

[nj1639]

It should keep the mice in check.........

 

[Mailman]