When a massive snake popped out of the hood of a moving pickup, one of the men inside shouted "Should I go poke it with the umbrella?"

The close encounter happened Monday afternoon as Zakary Wyatt and Swade Moyers were driving on State Highway 114 just west of Lubbock, KCBD-TV reports.

"Swade froze up, placed the truck in cruise control, took his feet off the pedals and tucked them under him," Wyatt told TWC News. "I wasn't sure what was happening until he told me to look at it."

Right after the snake's head popped up in front of the windshield, the yelling started.

"Go, go, go! Get out of here!" one them said as the snake started to make its way out from under the hood, nearing the truck's edge.

Moyers pulled the truck over, hoping the snake would slide off.

As its tail slunk out, they were relieved to discover that it wasn't a rattlesnake, though Moyers and Wyatt were both still freaking out.

"He's my boss and friend," Wyatt said. "But I had no clue he was as scared of snakes as I am. I've lived in Texas all my life, and yes, it was a nonlethal snake, but it was terrifying."

KCBD reports that it was a bullsnake, which ranges from three to five feet long, according to Texas Parks and Wildlife. It definitely looked like it was on the longer side — and the men agreed.

"Oh, my gosh, dude, that thing is long," one of them said.

Bullsnakes are nonvenomous and don't strike unless provoked so it's probably a good thing Wyatt or Moyers didn't actually poke it with an umbrella.

But they seemed pretty tempted when the snake turned around and started back across the hood.

"No, go get off the truck," one of them said. "Don't get on the truck. Man he's not leaving the truck, man. He's going back in."

That's when the shrieks began and they stepped on the gas.

"It did finally get off OK," Moyers later wrote on Facebook. "And I didn't have to get out of the truck!"

That's good to hear because he may never have gotten out otherwise.