Lions & tigers & bears! Oh My! It's a freaking RATTLESNAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OH MY!!!!!!!!!!!!
I've had many encounters with rattlers but fortunately they were all outdoors and that was bad enough! I think I would have been eyeing that bookcase for the next year. And I probably would have painted every cable in the Apt. bright orange so it wouldn't look like a snake. And checking under the sheets before I got in them. And the toe kicks in the kitchen & bath &, &, &, &....... You see, I tend to have a very vivid imagination which can run away with me from time to time. Cool in an emergency but when it's all over...... I would have been seeing rattlers in the house for the next several years.
That's one hairy experience.
