I can understand the frustration! People are just so strange in how they treat snakes, there's a gentleman in my biology class who's been asking me questions about my pets and snakes in general so I've been answering his questions. However, in lab the other day I go across the room to deal with a culture in the incubator and I hear him saying to the other lab partner "She really knows her snakes, it's the creepiest thing I've ever witnessed. Wait until we see her in the headlines strangled to death"

So much for education I hope your potential brother in law doesn't overstep his boundaries! (Though I'm sure you're more than capable of kicking his a** back into place if it comes to that )