The first year after I retired from the USAF I had my Folks and my Kids visit my place for Christmas. At the time I had a juvie Normal and a baby Pastel. This was the first time my kids had been able to interact with my BPs, so I had the Normal boy out and was letting him roam around my hands on the living room floor while my kids made up their minds about this whole snake thing (Son jumped right on board, the Daughter took a little longer but is now the one who's crazy for them).
The whole time this was going on, my Dad was standing all the way across the living room and half way onto the patio. After making several comments about how nice my Normal would look as a belt, I reminded him that male BP's rarely make it to 5 feet, and that wouldn't be nearly enough belt for his waist...
He then announced that snakes like that can strike further than their body length. I calmly responded that ball pythons are well known for being able to strike 24 times the length of their bodies, and that on occasion they have been known to spontaneously grow wings and the ability to spit fire...and that he might want to back up just a little bit further.
By this time my Kids were laughing so hard at him that he finally gave up.
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