Re: You know you are a herper when....
....when you walk into your local petstore and before you can even ask someone to be paged to small animals, 8 mice and a small rat are in two boxes ready for you in the back (they were expecting you 30 minutes ago!)
....when someone at work makes the mistake of bringing up your snakes on a half hour break, and everyone else in the break room in relegated to have to listen to it for the next half hour.....and sometimes into the next break too! (They've learned to keep their mouths shut now)
....when your name is Adam and you receive a phone call during dinner from someone wanting to talk snakes and says "hey, got a second?" and the next thing you know its after midnight. (I'm just guessing on this one)
....any time (regardless of situation) that you say "ROCK ON!!"
....someone you know mentions something about karma and immediately associate it with "Cuff" and "Link" (I get this a lot being a blackjack dealer... people always trying to get on karma's good side.
----- A take off on this, is when anyone mentions "the lesser of two evils" you can only think of one thing.
----- Your shopping for rings, and they mention platinum and you say "Oh, I love platties!"
....you BUILT a seperate room onto your house to house your herps and the new ones on the way.
....you move the 13 year old in with the 3 year old so you can have a quarantine room. (naw.... I wouldn't do that..... :oops: )
....your girlfriend says "Honey, what would you like for Christmas?" and before you can draw in your breath, she exclaims "YOU'RE NOT GETTING ANYTHING SNAKE RELATED, SO DON'T EVEN ASK!!!"
Re: You know you are a herper when....
FREE BUNNIES! where! where! LOL
You know you're a herper when....
- you sat your teenagers down for "the talk" about it ended up being about hets and morphs and punnet squares....
- your 12 year old informs you that she will one day have her very own Platty Daddy and you actually consider giving her Ralph's phone number..... (still amazes me that she even knows what a "Platty Daddy" is LOL)
- you don't freak when your teenage son (or your loving husband for that matter) mentions a nice rack he saw (though you still immediately ask for clarification of that statement LOL)...
- you mention to two forum friends that you haven't been feeling well and they suggest your husband should "up your temps and mist you"...and MIKE ACTUALLY CONSIDERS THIS A VIABLE OPTION! (you women know who are you LMAO)
- you check your new rat pups and have to chant "I don't care if you are cute, you are still food!" over and over to convince yourself...
- you get an answering machine message from someone who calls herself "Kashmire's mommy" and you think this is perfectly normal....
- you begin to think of your 4 kids as 2.2!
~~Jo~~
Re: You know you are a herper when....
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Originally Posted by frankykeno
- you get an answering machine message from someone who calls herself "Kashmire's mommy" and you think this is perfectly normal....
~~Jo~~
Who would do such a thing? That's just too sappy!!!! ;)
Re: You know you are a herper when....
- you get a call from Joanna and you say "Hi Jo! How are your balls?" and your boy friend doesn't get upset
- you are in Yahoo chat with 3 other women and you're all looking at the same website with available female balls and they convince you to put a deposit on one (or two) even after you protest that you have to save your money to buy Christmas presents.
Re: You know you are a herper when....
-you know that you should be getting work done, but can't pull yourself away from this darn website! (I am currently battling this one)
Re: You know you are a herper when....
...Your idea of a great date is to go to the local herp show, and you are equally interested in the various herps and how your date reacts to them, (okay way more interested in the herps than your date, but you can't actually tell him that)
....You have posted links to this site on your LJ with the Title "I am in love"...he goes by the name ...... and you link to one of Kara's lovely pics
Re: You know you are a herper when....
- You're in AIM chat with 3 other women friends and you are talking about MEN (well okay only Adam, Ralph, Joe, Will but hey they are men that breed the snakes we want LMAO)
Geesh Robin who would talk you into buying snakes rather than silly Christmas presents for some family member that probably forgets to call you on your birthday or errrrrrrr (gimme a minute I'm thinking up more justifications here!) LOL
~~Jo~~
Re: You know you are a herper when....
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Originally Posted by frankykeno
- You're in AIM chat with 3 other women friends and you are talking about MEN (well okay only Adam, Ralph, Joe, Will but hey they are men that breed the snakes we want LMAO)
~~Jo~~
Or trying to set up one of the women friends with another ball python lover from another forum, but she won't go for it!
Re: You know you are a herper when....
When your friends have a baby, you ask them what kind of substrate they keep her on:D
Re: You know you are a herper when....
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Originally Posted by iceman25
When your friends have a baby, you ask them what kind of substrate they keep her on:D
Quoted for posterity!
. . . . you tell poeple you have 3.0 kids
. . . . you alweays her the "paper or plastic" options at the supermarke checkout as "Glass or plastic" (yeah i know they dont do that anymore don't burst my bubble or dub no bass with my head man)
. . . you constantly refer to ppls carpeting/flooring as substrate (nice rosewood parquet substrate, beautiful low-pile substrate, decadent shag substrate etc)
. . . . ppl wonder what you are doing with all the newspaper you bum off them
. . . unexplained noises no longer spook you in the classic sense - they just make you rush to do a headcount of critters to make sure none got out and are slithering around.
