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I am especially passionate about herpetology and has maintained this obsession to this day. I have kept this passion largely to myself and I may stay totally quiet and antisocial during a party or some other social situation but at any opportunity the subject of snakes pops up in a such a social situation no one can shut me up. If the subject of the conversation in a room is something rather mundane say like new bathroom tiles or the latest football score and I may just sit quietly daydreaming about herpetology or even volcanology or cosmology Sometimes I would use the slightest chance to sidetrack to the subject herpetology or one of my other narrow interests. My guess the reason why I find dangerous creature like snakes so fascinating is because they fantasize so much about flirting with danger. Same applies for volcanos where I also fantasize about their overwhelming power, which why I fantasize about cosmology so much. I have actually been into contact with some dangerous species with bravado that would make my mother's hair curl.

One time I was on a fire truck volunteering to help with burning roadside firebreaks at Rokewood Junction, Victoria. Wile I was standing on the truck, my brother-in-law spotted a tiger snake. Me, as quick as a flash jumped off the truck and grabbed it by the tail as some old farmer followed behind me. I was standing dangling the deadly beast right in font of the old farmer's nose and he just about had a heart attack. That old farmer told me to put it down carefully. But unfortunately old farmers being old farmers he chopped it up into ten pieces with his shovel. I felt I was going to be next.

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