That would've left me traumatized too. Reminds me of the time a friend of mine was hiking in the Mojave and sat down on a boulder in the shade of a small rockface to rest for a minute. He soon heard a rattling sound band realized a rattlesnake had been resting inches from his butt and was now ready to strike at him. Said it took half an hour for the snake to calm down enough for him to make his leap to freedom