I have to call Bologna here.
That is a downright lie. LIAR!
You can never have just ONE Ball python....you will find yourself getting the bug and before you know it you will have a rack system built in your spare bedroom with various morphs for breeding projects. You will find yourself unable to sleep at night and load up the laptop and play around with the morph calculator so you can satisfy your desires to breed crazy cool looking snakes. "Just a pet" you say...frakking bullcrap sir! It is an addiction and it cannot be quenched...just satisfied briefly with new "pickups" (which you will spam the forums with the MINUTE you get home and can throw it under a lamp in a white setting to get the best pictures possible while claiming "the pictures suck but the colors are even BETTER in person")
Blah blah blah. We've heard it all before. You're the new kid in class and you have to sit in the front of the school bus...but worry not...the next new kid is just coming home with his new "pet" just now from his local reptile expo....
Welcome to the club!