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...like having a guy try to flirt with you by telling you that he had a burmese "ball" python among several other snakes and then try to tell you what size your snakes are going to get when they're adults. (He totally screwed up on that info too)

I once had someone tell me that I should be careful because I might not be able to get home owner's insurance if they found out I kept Ball Pythons. They eat people, you know. I tried to correct him, but he was FAR too sure of himself. Thankfully the other people in the group knew he was wrong.
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Because Balls just get like... so massive, yeah? xD xD

LOL, yep been there MANY times. I think it's funny when people like that stop by your booth at a show and tell you they too had an Albino Ball 10 years ago. What's really funny is when I tell them that I started hatching out Albino Balls 10 years ago and at that time they were priced around $6000 EACH, about then the wife usually speaks up to inform me that it must not have been an Albino Ball afterall and agrees with what I told them at the begining of the conversation that it was likely actually a Albino Burm not an Albino Ball. Not many people buy $6,000 snakes for pets you know (wishing more did however)! People are funny at times, if you listen close you'll hear all kinds of things that make no sence! Not everyone is like that thank God, just have to take some of it with a grain of salt I think.

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How about my boss (who is afraid of snakes and I have to hear tons of bs when they're mentioned) tells people about the 33ft burms they're pulling out of Florida. I keep trying to tell him they don't get that big... Oh, and there was the lady at the pet shop that asked me if my snakes shared the rats or if there was one for each?

I've got two for you.

First, the guy I got my first ball from told me not to feed it too puch or it would get as big as burms and retics.

Second, the other day at a local pet store, I was telling an employee about what all I had. When I mentioned my Hog Island boa, he told me he has a friend with a Hog Island boa/Burmese python Hybrid. It was all I could do not to laugh in his face.

Beat that one!

I was in a clean, reputable looking pet store that had a surprisingly good selection of lizards and I asked why they didn't have any snakes. I was told that snakes are "too great a liability" to sell as pets because even the non-venomous species have "toxic saliva".

Toxic.
Saliva.

Sigh.

I had to add this one since it just happened. My husband and I took our daughter (she'll be two in August) to the zoo for the first time this past weekend. While we were looking at the reptiles, a boy around then hollars out, "Look at the python!" He was pointing at a water moccasin! And when I tried to correct him, he said it was too a python. Ok, kid whatever. He obviously couldn't read either being it had a plate telling you the type of snake. Oh, and there was the woman that told her four young children (between 4-10) that the retic would eat them. Sometimes you just want to smack people.