Irrational fear. Have you spoken with anyone about this? Not good - it's like being in a prison of your own making.
Just a thought.
Sorry man... I'm not a religious man but the persecution of snakes goes back to when Christ walked the earth... and probably way before that...
There's something about them that's wrong... humanity hasn't liked them for thousands of years.
I think they are pure evil. I'm not sure how anyone can look at a snake and not be either terrified or full of rage or both. I think there should be a day every year we go out and club as many as we can like the Simpsons.
I'd love for every snake to be wiped from the planet and if they weren't so essential to the food chain i'd advocate a human led extinction of them.
They have no legs, no arms, they slither, hiss, have evil looking eyes and tongues, some have horns, rattles, venom, giant heads, some are 30feet long, others are so small you'd never see them before they went all coral snake on your ass and you died.
They are fucking evil, and yes it's an irrational fear I have, they're probably my greatest fear to be honest (and I hate admitting that with the NSA reading) but there is something about snakes that is just wholly evil. Burn them! Burn them all!
My advice, living in Florida, would be to get your mom a gun and have her start blowing the mother fuckers away.