Here is one of my encounters with a pigmy rattle snake ..
I was at a local park and had to go to the bathroom ,, while im doing my business at the urnal . I looked down to the right and there it was about 10 inches from my foot all nicely coiled up in strike mode .. i wasnt about to make a move and didnt know what to do at the moment , thinking .. finished my business and decided to jump away from it as far and fast as i could ... it didnt strike which it if it had would have got me.
Maybe it was just waiting in line to use the urnal lol .. true story .. I dont play with snakes , I chop them up into compost ..