i have told this one before but will again for you.
when i was younger, about knee high to a grass hopper i was with my parents at a family friends house for bit of a party, they had a pink and Grey galah in a cage out back, that used to dance or bob up and down, so i was bobbing up and down in front of the bird trying to get it to dance as well,
next thing i hear my dad "Tristan! Don't move stand still" in quite a serious voice i stop and ask whats wrong "theirs a snake next to your leg don't move" so i look down and sure enough there is a snake but bugger me its a 1.5ishM Mulga reared up looking dead at me all of about 1 foot away, tell you what like a cat i sprung up and sideways think i moved over a meter from a standing position.
unfortunatly for the snake it rocked up on a property where they are not fond of snakes and it was "disposed of".
another time few years later, i was playing games late into the morning on a weekend, and i have a mate sleeping over as you do when your a kid, any way he went to bed and when i went to follow suit i walked into the back/spare room, that was also the ironing room, and in the moonlight i could see something stretching from the ironing table towards the wall, at first i thought its just a shadow in the night,
but then i kept looking at the shape and thought there is nothing to make a shadow like that so i flicked on the light and booya its a young 1mish Mulga, i ran and got dad, but i think the light and commotion disturbed the fella and he fled back under the house.
to clarify our house was ground level but it was on stilts with a hatch that you could climb under the house. and in the back room the bricks had bit of a gap that was 1-2cm thick that went straight into the under house section.
oh and after that i still went to sleep in that room
oh i have more, my mate and i used to catch the Ta ta dragons that were everywhere got pretty pro at it but had a few occasions where we caught larger ones and they don't tend to let go when they bite so here i am with a largeish female hanging off my finger and every time you move the dragon or your finger it bites down harder, so the trick is relax and you can feel the dragon relax its grip bit by bit, and once you think the grip is loose enough quickly rip your finger out, and just hope you get it right or you get to start all over again
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then i used to catch the babies and have them bite my ear lob and let them dangle ( they did not hurt lol)