Tried the alcohol approach first; she didn't seem to care at all about it. I never handle snakes after handling rodents without thoroughly scrubbing my hands, so I would be surprised if I smelled like food. Also, I was not aware that she was gravid when I was handling her. They mentioned that fact afterwards- although to be honest my experience with ball pythons is limited enough that I would not have known that they tend to get more irritable when they are gravid (though it does make perfect sense). I just knew that she was a large, beautiful female BP and I wanted a better look at her.
I see. Definetly not your fault then, i apologize for being sorta nasty. It was the dumb employees at the stores fault lol...