snakes, yikes!

[pcmcobra]

A few weeks ago, my wife walked out on the back porch and there was a 3' black racer, I heard her scream from the garage, and ran out there she said a snake, so I went and got my machete and started hunting it, saw it behind playhouse against fence, went to chop it and bam, he was gone! So I waited about 1/2 hour for him to come out from under playhouse, no show.
Have not seen it since, well tonight I was watching tv in living room, got up to get a drink, something caught my eye by the curtains in the living room, holy crap! A snake in the house!
It was reddish brown, I kept my cool, hurried to the garage to my my "yard tongs", my kids probably got a hold of them, so I got a towel(the whole time being very quiet), and caught the snake in the towel, luckily tomorrow is trash day, so I through the towel and the snake in the roadside trash can.
Went online and it looked to be a corn snake.
I don't dare say anything to my wife or kids. Holy crap, when will my wife or kids ever listen to me when I say "shut the door"!?
I'm a little creeped out now.