My go-to for burns, including sunburns, or abrasions is Alocane. It’s like a magic healing potion in squeeze form. I keep multiple tubes at all times.
We have a huge aloe plant in our sunroom that is ~35 years old. We use it for burns, bug bites, and tattoo healing.
Husband ran over a snake that was crossing the road, a long pretty black one. I hoped he had missed it, but travelling the same road later, I saw its mangled remains. I know it was an accident, but I’m feeling uncommonly downcast about it. Poor snakie, he was beautiful.
Wasn’t long for this world at any rate.
I guess it’s just me, but I would never use a word like “beautiful” in reference to a snake, or lament its demise. I’m generally very much an animal lover, but certain reptiles and most insects to me are more in the domain of “aliens” than “animals”. I wouldn’t want to see even a slimy alien suffer, but I definitely wouldn’t miss a snake – if I may adapt a phrase – departing this mortal coil.
… shuffled off this mortal coil…
Despite your primeval reaction surely you realize and embrace the scientific fact that snakes even if venomous are important both as prey and predator in ecosystems, notwithstanding the medicinal uses found to benefit our human species, including @wolfpup and those of his piteous and uninformed ilk; since time immemorial.
If not don’t be a shithead and carelessly toss off your disdain for the subject of some else’s sorrow. @Dung_Beetle
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When they are proper parts of the ecosystem, yes, I agree with you. I’d rather have one snake than hordes of vermin the snake would be otherwise be eating. (My wife on the other hand has a paralyzing fear of snakes and would take the vermin.)
Note that I used to live on Guam, which has a problem with brown tree snakes, which are an invasive species and were disruptive to that island’s ecosystem.
And when it says:
causes frequent power outages by climbing on electrical wires
When I lived there (early 90s) that was a couple of times a month at least.
I just took it as an “Eeew!” moment that we all have about some animal. Me, I appreciate snakes but a hornet will scare me to death (and we have a lot around - and IN - our house).
And pugs. You canNOT tell me they are native to this planet… Men in Black had it right!
Flying palmetto bugs are my trauma trigger from early days. 
none in MI 
but we gotchas Ssssnakessss
Yeah, there are some critters that a majority of people are scared of, or at least discomforted by.
(Hint: The first attempt, “Chipmunks On A Plane”, did not get picked up by a studio…)
Sounds like a variation on the email messages purporting to be Norton or some other service saying that "We’ve automatically renewed your subscription in the amount of $350. If this is incorrect, call xxxxxxxx. I almost fell for that a number of years ago and called the number. Someone with a heavy accent sent up an alarm in my brain and I hung up.
Two rants in one.
I pit lethargic bunny rabbits in my back yard. I don’t mind little bunnies hopping around, but today there was one in an apparently comatose state. When I make noises at it, it moves slightly and its ears perk up, but it does no more than that, leading me to believe that I may soon be dealing with corpse disposal. But apparently they just like sleeping in the grass and don’t like to be disturbed, and I now recall that I’ve seen this before. This afternoon’s bunny has now relocated.
Second rant. Our wonderful premier here in the province of Ontario has abolished all license renewal fees for private non-commercial vehicles. Bless his heart, but the renewal process remains in place, even though renewal stickers are no longer being issued. I just renewed with an option for one year or two years, so I picked “two” (why not?) and this is the essential part of what I got back – the blacked-out bit is my license plate number:
I mean, I appreciate not having renewal fees and stickers any more, but now that we don’t have them, what the ever-loving-fuck did this accomplish?
I remember decades ago (late 90s) that I received a bill from my phone company warning that my phone bill was due. It was a bill for $0. And that $0 amount was accurate since I had paid it. (I tried to always pay my bills promptly, which back then involved mailing checks to various places.) I assumed this wasn’t really a bill but just a statement confirming that my bill was paid off (which is a behavior from that organization that I’d never seen before but whatever).
But then I got another one. I wasn’t sure if it was something I should worry about, so I let myself think about it for a few days, then I got another one warning me that my service would be cut off if I didn’t pay my bill. At that point I had enough and called the phone company. I got through to a customer service person, who at first didn’t believe me, then when she looked up my info she didn’t know how to fix it. Because she confirmed that my service was due to be cut off. (Note that this was a land line back in those days.) She got her supervisor who showed her how to fix it, and then no problem.
But I remembered asking her how I was supposed to even pay a bill of $0. I could technically write a check and write $0 on it, but I didn’t want to waste a check; I had to pay my bank to get them, and didn’t feel like wasting it on the phone company’s screw-up.
I recently reserved a parking space in an off-site private parking lot near an airport. When I found out that the airline had changed my flight to leave 30 minutes earlier than originally planned, I edited my reservation to reflect the change. The charge for the change was $0, but I still had to ‘pay’ for the change online and they issued me a new QR code with the new entry time.
Spiders are the hideous alien creatures I can’t deal with, and I’m trying to work on that. I don’t kill them now unless they attack me.
Snakes though, I do find to be fascinating wild animals. Running across the non-venomous sort always makes my day, unless they die a senseless death because they accidentally met up with some careless humans… anyway. Thanks, @chela .
I don’t blame you, they have two extra legs!!!
They actually have four extra legs, which definitely makes spiders insects (and also aliens), as per Dave Barry’s definition of an insect: any creature that has way more legs than necessary!
Official entomologists may disagree with this, but it brings us to an erudite intersection of entomology and etymology, and I say that in the latter domain Dave Barry reigns supreme! 
I’m ophidiophobic myself, but would still feel bad if I ran one over. Yes, they have their role in the world. The nope ropes just need to stay away from me while they’re doing it. They leave me alone, I’ll return the favor.
I’m still not going to be a jerk about someone feeling sympathy for them, though. Just because I dislike something doesn’t mean it’s totally without value to someone.
Hey, Seagull, I’m not a jerk – I love all animals, but there’s some I just find hard to sympathize with. And I’ll thank you not to poop all over my car! 