You may be addicted

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Originally Posted by snakemanjayd

...When you catch your self laughing when you hear of someone keeping a mouse or rat as a pet, because that's obviously not what they were made for...:colbert::snake:

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Good one, I so think that sometimes.

You may be addicted if you have called out sick because fedex had a wrong address.

You may be addicted if you have considered moving just because herp laws are too strict in your state.

You may be addicted if you have no idea what pastel means but you can definitely recognize one.

You may be addicted if you have tried to flag down people in traffic because they were taking an old fridge to the dump.

You know your addicted when your girlfriend gives you a deli cup for your birthday and it's not cake or ice cream.:D

You affectionately refer to the your Fed-ex driver as "the stork"

For the guys...
You may be addicted if you...
Find yourself asking "why can't I have hemipenes?"

You may be addicted when you've been so poor you've eaten frozen rats ( >.> I HAD to get that spider)

You may be addicted when you've been kicked out of your apartment for violating the capacity for you room with rubbermaid tubs full of snakes. (Done this too ><)

You may be addicted when your power goes out due to ice storms and you let your snakes sleep with you to keep them warm.

when you get rats and snakes delivered to your work :)

You feel the need to give your hamburger a tight hug before taking a bite.

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Originally Posted by AaronP

Your spouse doesn't bother to argue with you about getting a new snake and instead names it.


I love my fiance :)

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Or when she has names for snakes you dont even own yet.
I love my girl haha

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Originally Posted by ev477

If you see a kitten as a potential meal:P

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Or a rabbit or guinea pig

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Originally Posted by snakemanjayd

...When you catch your self laughing when you hear of someone keeping a mouse or rat as a pet, because that's obviously not what they were made for...:colbert::snake:

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And ask them how long they plan on keeping it so you can have it when they get rid of it so you can breed it. (Happened)

When you own more reptile species and have more rodents frozen and live than the petstore you work at.

If you wonder if your girl will notice her chihuhua missing and a lump in one of the snakes.

If your reptile room has its own circut breaker.

if the pet store owners know you by name.

the hardware store employees asks about next projects.

you try and find out your weight in grams.

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Originally Posted by Headsy

If your reptile room has its own circut breaker [...]

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you mean "rooms" with an "S" and each room has "multiple circuit breakers" ;)

...If you use chlorhexadine to clean your house

...If your doodles during class consist of punnet squares

...If someone asks you what your life goals are, and you respond with a list of ball python morphs!

(guilty of all three :D)

You know your SO is starting to get addicted too, when he/she always complained about how expensive the good brands of dog food are when buying it for the dog, but doesn't say a word when discussing buying it for the rodent colony.

When you're cutting up the fresh fruits and vegetables for the reptiles and rat colony.. and the microwave dings to let you know your $0.50 cheap frozen burrito is warmed....

When keeping a baby snake in your bra because people have the AC turned too low in the waiting room doesn't seem odd to you...

When co-workers assume you like all creepy things!

When co-workers avoid your desk!

When co-workers look at you in fear and awe when you discuss your animals!

When your co-workers are surprised you own a cat!

when your family members dont even ask anymore how many snakes you have.. they just roll their eyes

When a "nice rack" no longer has to do with cleavage

When you finally after all these years out of school figure out how genetics really work

When you find out your child has a genetic disease you ask the dr if your other child is "het for" the disease HAHAHAHAHA (its totally happened!)

when you refuse to keep your snakes/racks/exc in any other room besides your bedroom in fear someone will want to steal your private collection, the tvs, computers, exc however go without notice... who cares if they get stolen!

when 95% of your family and friends dont even know you have snakes because you dont want them to know a: your investment b:youve gone totally crazy or c: where all your money has really gone

when the guy at the post office refers to you as the "snake girl"

when your breeder/supplier is your best friend.. you smile when you see their phone number show up on caller id

when you refer to your supplier as such and people give you the weirdest look ever and you just smile knowing hes the good guy ;)

when your husband asks you what you want for your birthday and you reply "a temp gun!"

when you have already spent your entire 09' tax return on MORE SNAKES!!

when you run home and the first thing you do is check on your reptiles

:weirdface totally us, in every instance

....when you dress up an a giant ball python costume at weekends:colbert:

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Originally Posted by Jenn

You may be addicted to keeping Ball Pythons ...

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when someone says "Another one" and u reply,"I been had that one" ! when u know u added a couple more...

you've ever held a snake in one hand and it's fresh poop in the other.

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Originally Posted by icygirl

...If you use chlorhexadine to clean your house

...If your doodles during class consist of punnet squares

...If someone asks you what your life goals are, and you respond with a list of ball python morphs!

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Yep.
Punnent squares or snakes…in Bio class!
And yep. :)

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Originally Posted by Headsy

if the pet store owners know you by name.

the hardware store employees asks about next projects.

you try and find out your weight in grams.

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Owners, managers, employees…everyone!
All the time. That place is my toy store.
Been there, done that.

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Originally Posted by littleindiangirl

When co-workers assume you like all creepy things!

When co-workers look at you in fear and awe when you discuss your animals!

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Change those ‘co-workers’ to professors and fellow students and you got me.

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Originally Posted by ADEE

When your family members dont even ask anymore how many snakes you have.. They just roll their eyes

When a "nice rack" no longer has to do with cleavage

when you refuse to keep your snakes/racks/exc in any other room besides your bedroom in fear someone will want to steal your private collection, the tvs, computers, exc however go without notice... Who cares if they get stolen!

when the guy at the post office refers to you as the "snake girl"

when your husband asks you what you want for your birthday and you reply "a temp gun!"

when you run home and the first thing you do is check on your reptiles.

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Yes to each and every one with the exception that I already have a temp gun, so I would ask for a new corn snake (they’re cheaper). :D

if every time you meet one of your SO's friends or family members they say "Oh, you're the one that likes snakes, right?"

(That didn't get old at the wedding last weekend at all!)

lol.. what a great thread!!

*When you get green with envy when looking at other peoples snake rooms and their multiple racks

*When you think constantly about what herp your going to get next to take up your empty enclosure

*When you except your room being 79 degrees when you would MUCH rather it be much colder but because you sacrifice and have your snakes in your room you deal with the ambient temp being higher

*You refer to the temp in your room "ambient"

*When you buy a new sodering iron and wonder why it cant make holes faster.. what is that thing actually supposed to be for?!

*When you open your utility closet in your home and find a huge bin full of "left over" mice and super worms... instead of the typical utility closet.

*When those little drawer things you get to hold pens have only ever held super worms

*You know that chicken meal/scratch makes GREAT feed for super worms

*You have a 5lb bag of baby carrots in your fridge, not because you would actually eat them but because the super worms do

If when you get a new one, and tell your SO, "I swear this is the last one for a while" and they just sigh and roll their eyes... :rolleyes::D (and even you know you are lying)

so true heather... so true! lol

when your interviewing some one and one of the questions is how they feel about snakes..and then take their response into to serious consideration before you hire them...

when one of your complaints about not being about to find someone to date is that most are scared of your snake...

and if your snake doesn't seem to respond 'well' to bf, you dump them...lol

:D:D:D

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Originally Posted by python.princess

if every time you meet one of your SO's friends or family members they say "Oh, you're the one that likes snakes, right?"

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if everytime you meet one of ur So friends & family members and they say "How many snakes do you have NOW !" when u say the # they say "OMG"!

When you write out checks for the monthly expenses, and as you slip them into envelopes you kind of sigh and grumble "Pied" (mortgage), "Lesser" (Electric) "Pinstripe" (Insurance) - and so on . . .

~Bruce

A lot of these are so true for me. :P:D

- when you are considering getting a seperate credit card just for snake expenses

- when your feeder bill and feeder colony bill costs more than your own food bill.

- when you SO sits next to you and rolls their eyes as they realize many of these things are true.

- when people ask you how many kids you have, you say the # and they look at you like your crazy. Then you have to explain that they are not of the human variety.

- when a co-worker approaches you and asks you if you want any mice and is willing to allow his mice to keep breeding just so you can have some feeders.

You have a whole room dedicated to reptiles.

People complain about a mouse and or rat problem... then again, so do you... why are they not breeding! :D

You ever explained genetics to some one and they looked at you with a look as a blank sheet of photo copy paper

You hit up breeders birthing records and available page on your cell phone on the clock at work! (I do this)

You get tagged and the first thing you do is grab a camera

A "closet case" to you, simply means you keep snakes in a closet

You have been called "crazy" and often hear, "you keep what!?"

if the workers at the local power plant know exactly what time your timer starts in the morning for heat lamps and heat pads and starts up the back up generators incase the entire city blows a fews and the electricity goes out all over the town. :D

If your friends ask what your fav vehicle is and you say FedEx express truck! ( not guilty of that, but its a good one..lol)

If your closet no longer holds your clothes.

- You've had a really long day at work, are craving something to eat, but still you sit at 12:30am at your computer, on ball-pythons.net.

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Originally Posted by Jay_Bunny

- You've had a really long day at work, are craving something to eat, but still you sit at 12:30am at your computer, on ball-pythons.net.

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Yeah, I am just thirsty though..No football tommarow means late night for me!:D

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Originally Posted by Jay_Bunny

- You've had a really long day at work, are craving something to eat, but still you sit at 12:30am at your computer, on ball-pythons.net.

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Heh... change it to school and it is SO true. :) Ari threatens to pull the plug on my computer when I spend more than an hour here.

Ok, let's see. You know you're addicted to reptiles...

- When you are known throughout the entire Science department of your college as the 'Snake Lady'. (Constantly)

- When the Biology lab proffs offer you the 'results' of a three-month long genetics lab. (Mice, of course. Had it happen today)

- When you constantly claim that you are NOT obsessed with snakes, even though you have pictures of your own collection in your wallet instead of child/family pics, your walls are covered with snake posters of your OWN making, your cell phone and desktop pictures are BPs.... (GUILTY)

- When you're out shopping at WalMart and you see a couple with a tank and plastic dishes in their cart so you automatically ask what they're getting and start giving purchase and care advice. (Been there, done that over and over)

If you need to have an expensive and irreplaceable item shipped to you, and you are totally calm about it, because you know all the ins and outs of how to not miss the FedEx man. (just received said item today! :))

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Originally Posted by BrucenBruce

When you write out checks for the monthly expenses, and as you slip them into envelopes you kind of sigh and grumble "Pied" (mortgage), "Lesser" (Electric) "Pinstripe" (Insurance) - and so on . . .

~Bruce

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Oh boy I know how that is.