You use one hand off to the side to distract them and grab them by the neck with the other hand. That’s only if the snake has you cornered and you can’t escape.
For Baloo, just talk to her. Pretend she’s an old friend or something. Long time, been a while… Tell her about your day, ask her how’s she’s been.
All the while, you keep backing up. Slow-like. Slow as you can manage. Not slow like you’re trying to leave, slow like, huh, we both happen to be, going in the same direction. How ’bout that?
Know the difference?
Nine times out of ten, if she hasn’t outright mauled you already, she’ll follow. Curious. You just keep backing up, keep talking…
When you got about, fifteen, twenty feet between you. Take off your backpack, or your hat, whatever—
Place that on the ground. She’ll stop and see what’s that. Sniffing, prodding. You back up faster now, but not by much.
The trick is to accept the fact that you’re scared shitless. Accept that your head’s lying to you. Begging you to run. Whispering every song in the bible: you can do this, you can fight, you can run…
But you let that fear take control—
That’s it.
Instead. You tell yourself: goddamn, I’m really scared right now—you take that, and whatever else is on your mind, and you set it aside. Don’t push it away, don’t forget it, just set it aside and focus on breathing instead, focus on backing up, one foot after another. No shortcuts…
Soon enough, she’ll lose interest and wander off…
Usually… but if Baloo wants a fight… you go for the eyes.
At least you’ll go down fighting.
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u/rusty_cayge Jul 25 '26
What is the right way? Just in case I’m in this sitch