Beeer O'Clock

[shermarama]

So, walking home late on nights with a little moisture in the air and gardens thereabouts. With regard to snails, in particular. I can't do proper polls but do you
a) Snails?
b) hear the crunches but try not to think about it too much
c) hear the crunches and descend into a miasma of guilt
d) try and walk round them, even though the lighting makes this hard
e) Snails! (run away).

There are a large number of things I wish I could record here when my brain is this fuddled. Saw three bands tonight at the Engine Rooms, indeed, but nowt about it right now.

Comments

[my-name-is-anna.livejournal.com]

Oh, I always feel really sorry for the snail when I tread on it. And the crunch sound is horrible.
Also I worry that they are in a lot of pain because I didn't look where I put my huge foot.

[annacdotes.livejournal.com]

Always c). It also makes me feel a little nauseous. Sensitive much?

[mooism.livejournal.com]

d)c)e) in that order. I get paranoid when I step on stones slipping sometimes and it makes the same kind of noise.

I am racked by Catholic guilt ...

[phyphor.livejournal.com]

As a child I went to a convent school (that is a school, run by nuns, that was also their convent).
On the school grounds they had some allotment type areas and plants and the like and so therefore they had snails. And kids being kids sometimes we trod on them (and sometimes intentionally) until we were caught and severely reprimanded by the nuns. They laid on the guilt trip pretty heavily and so one of the few things that has stuck with me from my time there was DO NOT TREAD ON SNAILS.

Even though I am no longer Catholic (was I ever, really? that's a topic for my own LJ/diary if I can get myself into writing it) it is still something that has stuck in my mind and I see no rational reason to ignore that particular teaching (not killing snails has been one of the few consistencies within the religions I've dabbled in).

So I'm firmly in the (d) camp, with occasional (c) when accidents happen.

[pinkjulia.livejournal.com]

e... i fear the slime.. but not as bad as slugs... i think the are the only thing that makes me scream...

[christhomas123.livejournal.com]

I'm kind of d) if I can help it, but b) otherwise. Where I live it never actually gets too dark to see the snails, so there's no excuse, but if one happens to be underfoot, we'll that's the way life goes. His helical brethren didn't worry about eating half my garden, I'm sure.

[facehead2k.livejournal.com]

I'd say D, but in all honesty E sounds more likely.

[otterylexa.livejournal.com]

Ooh, snails. *stompy stompy*. Although it's a bit unpleasant if you're barefoot...

[damerell.livejournal.com]

(B) at most, but to be frank really hear the crunches and don't care.