I came out of the closet...

Everyone at work knows I have a plethora of ball pythons! LOL


They don't understand it, but they all know. I'm always setting my wallpaper on my computer as one of my snakes. Currently it's Echo (same as my avatar).

People at work have known I've had snakes since I started there. My manager still manages to come up with questions, what was really hilarious is when she took me aside and spent an hour asking about probes and their use.

A few people at work know I have all sorts of creepy crawlies.

I get much more "crap" about keeping tarantulas :)

I am just glad to have you guys/gals; at least some people understand!

My family and co workers know that I love snakes. Actually just yesterday some of the guys found a little rat snake and brought it to show me. Of course I had to tell them "no I do not want it, let it go back out in the woods!"

My husband and family didnt understand why I wanted a snake, my husband would not even ride home in the car with him. I had to take him home, then go back for the snake. My son seems interested in Kaa though:)

The department I work in (technology) most everyone knows I have snakes and I can't think of any one person who seemed appaled by it. Funny story though...I think I have had 2-3 snakes delivered to me...at work. Keep in mind I work a large ISD (intermediate school district) and at the time was working in the admin building. Not a real big deal they stash us tech's in the farthest back corner we can be in and all the deliveries are made there also so the rest of the staff didn't know or didn't care...had a few stop back to see what I had when the word spread which was cool. Anyway we had (yes past tense) a new tech Director who is absolutely freaked out by snakes. This is a guy who was in coast guard, former law enforcement, etc, etc. and he could barely even talk about snakes! The funny thing is he found out about my "deliveries" later on and from that day he would about face if he saw me carrying any sort of box or package....LOL wow was that funny. He would see me down the hall with a box (usually a computer or related equip) and dash into another office or hallway LOL good times. He was with us less than a year...but it wasn't me who drove him off...I don't think anyway :)

lol, that is hysterical. I could just imagine snakes at the office; maybe I could set up a snake-rack in my cubicle, and it'd make people stay away and not bother me while I was tryig to work, lol!
I think it is mainly ignorance that causes people to fear them. That, or maybe a traumatic experience as a kid (like, someone tossing one into their bed, etc.) That, or the fact that people mostly cannot tell a garter snake from a black mamba.. sad.