Quote Originally Posted by blackcrystal22 View Post
Many people misconceive that they are messy and space consuming animals, as well as problematic to care for. Once you get the basics down, they're really easy animals to take care of, unless your afraid of dead rats.. which most people find weird and nasty.
Others also perceive me as a hypocrite because I feed rats but am a vegetarian.. another misconception because my rats live good lives, and I'm a vegetarian because of mistreatment during LIFE.
Another misconception is that they will all get huge and EAT ME. And I also get "how do you deal with the ones that are poisonous".

Petite, don't worry about the marriage thing. It shouldn't really matter. My boyfriend loves my snakes (I may give him his favorite eventually), and my best friend Joe has some snakes of his own.
Most guys aren't afraid of them either, so no worries!
Woah, I'd like to know what guys you hang with--the ones around me are more scared of them than the girls! Sometimes they literally shriek with fear. Two-three years ago when I was still in high school, my girlfriends and I were at a handball game practice and it was garter snake breeding season so a few slithered onto the courts. The boys FREAKED THE HECK OUT--10-12 of 'em shrieking and jumping and OH MY GOD I'M GOING TO GET BITTEN. I ended up shooing them out into the grass. Now, get this, my girl friends didn't scream when I began to move them, they just shook their heads and sighed and they're, like me, are about as girly as you can get.

Even now, the girls that I meet are less afraid than the boys.

Ah... see, the problem with the marriage/relationship issue is that it's not just the potential partner but his parents as well--and boy, do asian parents give it to you.

-_-;;;

Gee, the devil, huh? I would've told them I'm sure the big bad devil has more important things to do than play pet snake, like, oh I don't know, world domination? =p