What are some stupid things people have said you about snakes?

[Courtney281]

Funniest snake conversation I've had... Was talking with a woman in a "job interview" sort of setting.

She asked me, "Where do you see yourself in five years? What's your biggest dream?"

I answered, "Seriously, in five years, I'd like to be breeding snakes and have my own business."

She blinked hard and looked confused...then asked, "How in the world do you breed snakes?"

With a perfectly straight face, I answer, "Well, you put the boy snake with the girl snake..."

She had a very chagrined laugh at that. And then we had a pleasant conversation about why snakes make such great pets.

Ok but the question is.... did you get the job?

[Bellabob]

Yea. I think the main one for me is "Is it poisonous?" I usually say "No, its not venomous either." I get "is that a real snake?" a lot also. Uhm, no fricking duh its a real snake. I usually don't even know what to say.

I've had someone even deny that my Cal king wasn't "poisonous". They said their uncle or something was bitten by one of those "things" and died. HAHAHa bull-you know what.

[bsash]

I love it when someone sees me with my snake and they yell out "omg is that a snake"? I keep trying to think of some snappy come back but haven't been able to. Let's see, it's shaped like a snake, it has scales, um......... I wanna say something like, no it's a garden hose/a really big necklace but I just become speechless.

Tell them it's a legless lizard!

[shelliebear]

I HATE when I tell my fiance's family (who are VERY religious, and we are not) that we keep snakes, and they tell us "Snakes are the devil, snakes are evil, the bible says so, Adam and Eve were deceived by them..."
>:/
One time I told them "Look my balls in the eyes and tell them they're evil."...they got more confused. I don't think they knew what to think, since I'm a girl and they clearly didn't understand my snake reference.

[JLC]

Ok but the question is.... did you get the job?

Could have if I'd've wanted it. But I didn't.

[Courtney281]

Could have if I'd've wanted it. But I didn't.

Nice, good for you

[Void]

My gf and I get "oh pythons are the ones that bite" and "is that a snake?" Course the one that gets asked the most is "are they poisonous?" So for that one we named our two dumerils Poisonous and Venomous so we can say "this one is venomous...THAT one is poisonous"

My gfs boss told her the next time someone asks are they poisonous reply "I don't know I haven't eaten one yet"

[kellysballs]

I get "Aren't those the ones running around in the everglades?", "Do you let them crawl around your house?", "You have snakes? I killed a (insert snake name here), because it was (insert ridiculous statement here)."

I take a deep breath and begin the process of trying to educate the masses. I would say about half the people I talk to walk away with a better understanding of ball pythons.

[jfreels]

Just Saturday I was at a party and someone labeled me as "the guy who has a lot of snakes". A lady approached me later in the night and said "are you the one with all the snakes?" I had never met her before and laughed and told her I had lizards too.

The next thing out of her mouth was "you're not going to let them go outside are you? It's a big problem all over the US."

One guy at work also said "What are you going to do when it's too big to live in your house?" GAH

Everything else is people telling me lame made up stories about snakes. Even when I explain to them how the situation could never come about, they don't want to hear it and just call me crazy.

@SpartaDog, I doubt that guy even had a snake. No 1' barrier could contain a snake, especially a Burmese. He was probably just trying to sound cool and failed.

[hilton 313]

not only that why is it when you tell some one you have snakes there first recation is that there runing around the house and not in cages