Petstore encounter I had to share

[angllady2]

Ok a few things,

In the first place, I didn't come here to call anybody anything. My original post was simply to share how some people can act so unreasonable when they feel a need to impress a perfect stranger. I was nothing but polite and interested in what this person had to say, right up until HE felt the need to make me feel inferior.

Now, if he had told me he once had a 15 foot retic or something similar and he had donated it to the local Zoo, I certainly would not have been rude or condescending to him. But to try and convince someone he does not know, someone who just announced she owned 9 { nine } Ball Pythons, that he owned the same snake and how large it got was just plain stupid on his part. Maybe he makes it a habit to own numerous snakes he knows nothing about, but I don't.

Furthermore, it would be a physical impossibility for an 8' Ball to weigh 100 pounds. That in and of itself is absurd. So even if his Ball was 8' long, and perhaps it was, based on some things I've read here, there is no way it weighed that much.

On top of that, If he didn't want to be treated in such a manner, he should have had more class than to act the way he did. I don't go out of my way to make fun of inexperienced owners, up until a few months ago I WAS one of them. BUT when someone I don't know turns a friendly conversation into a ***sing contest, you better believe I can dish out my fair share. The fact that his girlfriend laughed at him when I left proves he was lying and KNEW he was lying, and she thought it was funny he'd just been called out. My guess is he has a habit of things like that, and she was glad for once someone put him in his place.

Now, if I was kind enough to try and explain to the kid who opened the snake cage that a kitten can do more damage than a Ball, and that he didn't need to be scared of them. As well as showing him how to tell if they were going to shed or were dehydrated { which they were }. Why would I then deliberately be nasty to someone I didn't know?

If he had been civil, I would have been. He was a jerk, and I saw no reason to continue to be polite when he so clearly had no intention of doing the same.
So don't lecture me on being polite to people. I am one of the nicest people you'll ever meet, but if you treat me uncivilly, I have no qualms about returning the favor.

Mods, feel free to move this thread to Quarentine if you need to, since it's getting kind of ugly. I'd do it myself if I could.

Gale