Ugh parents...

[hunter94]

My parents like snakes. My Dads the one that wanted to get 2 snakes 1 for him and 1 for me but we settled with one for now. And then he said he wanted to buy a HET Albino Female and breed it with my HET Albino Male.

Also my grandma lives with us just in the downstairs which has its own kitchen, bathroom and stuff kinda like a mother and law house but any way she was mad when I told her I was getting a snake and I come home with it and the first day I got her to touch him and then later on that week I got her let him sit in her lap. =)

[WingedWolfPsion]

Also i agree the media is ridiculous they make these animals look very bad , and feed off this crap. u never see on the tv head lines "bunny rabbit gives 7 year old rabies" but i bet it happens just nobody thinks of a bunny rabbit as a blood thirsty killer so it doenst make the head lines

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_C...abbit_incident

[Carlene16]

Hahahah I think I'd be more afraid of a rabbit that's acting crazy than a snake any day (depending on the kind )

[hunter94]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_C...abbit_incident

Lmao, that just made the rest of my day. >.>

[Vypyrz]

Something to think about is maybe suggesting that you invite 1 or 2 friends to come along and have your parents drop you off at the expo and then they can go do something that interests them for a while and come back and pick y'all up. Since you know what your parents are into, before even suggesting that, try Googling the "tourism" or "planned events" web page for the city that the expo is going to be in and see if there are any events planned for that weekend that your parents might enjoy, and offer that as an idea that they could do while you were at the expo. Just a thought...

[h00blah]

i guess i've been really lucky... my parents have always been lenient with me and my siblings. my dad told me as he was giving me the infamous sex talk, my mom and him didn't want to tell me what to do or what not to do, but rather inform us so we can make our own intelligent decisions based on our knowledge. seemed to work out pretty well =]. i'm not a screwup, my sister is a graphic design graduate, my other sister is really excelling in her career in banking..

my mom didn't like snakes but when she saw the albino, and all the crazy morphs, she allowed me to buy a snake rack for 4 snakes that i put a lot of time into

maybe ur mom just has to see the docile and beauty of the snakes. show her cool morphs, give her a crash course on genetics and y it's so interesting. hold ur snake and show her how calm and relaxed they are.

[Oxylepy]

I read the first post:

Your mother flipped at you for saying something then belittled your interests which are within the range of normal human interests...

How old is she? Cus it sounds like someone's hit the big M and is having tantrums (no matter how old you are you can have tantrums, I know I have them every time I'm dehydrated ).

Even though my mom and I got in fights all the time over stupid things (my whole family cannot spend more than a few days together without wanting to kill one another) she never belittled me or anything. A parent who throws random temper tantrums or who insults and belittles their children clearly shouldnt have had children, because they probably were never really adults and havent developed the mental capacity to have such an influence over another human's life.

[Bpmike1208]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_C...abbit_incident

i bet you searched google just to find that too ahhaha lol

[chris4554]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_C...abbit_incident

Killer rabbits!! Let's ban all rabbits as pets, they do no good they only kill people! They are bred to kill the president!

[mainbutter]

It sounds like your mother is extremely immature and needs to be put on time-out.