I normally tell them they should hold one of my snakes and thier opinion sometimes changes. Other times people wont come near my house which is fine by me. My landlord had never held a snake and one time he came and was shocked to see 2. ( I forgot to tell him I had them). He held them once and decided i could have as many as i wanted as long as his kids could come over sometimes lol. try to educate them then, depending on ur personality, ignore them or tell them "the what to and the how for" lol.