Wow, I forgot about this thread. My husband is a home-based gunsmith and this incident happened last week. For the record, all of our customers make me smile - some when they arrive, others when they leave. And then there are the ones who get fired before we do any work for them...

So, the hubby is home waiting on a new customer whose rifle suddenly "doesn't work". The guy showed up right after lunch with an AR15. They go into the office and hubby starts taking the gun apart. Usually when someone has an AR15 that works, gets taken apart for cleaning, put back together, and then doesn't work, it's not hard to diagnose and correct the issue.

About the time hubby has removed the upper from the lower he hears the customer say "Snakes are the devil's spawn!"

Now, we have exactly one snake in the office, a beautiful male albino BCI about 18 months old. He's a very nice snake, laid back, never ever has threatened to bite. He's not one to hide all day, so he's in a Boaphile arboreal enclosure and even our customers who aren't herpers like the little guy.

Dear hubby (DH), knowing that he has bad hearing and thinking that he misunderstood what the guy said, goes "Excuse me?"

"Snakes are from the devil and people who keep them are Satan worshipers!"

DH, thinking that the guy is simply a snake-fearing pansy, tells the guy that we have 36 snakes and quite a few belong to our eight year old daughter.

"I don't care if your whore daughter owns snakes! No Christian can own snakes. Snakes are from the devil."

By now DH has had more than enough. Before the last comment DH was simply going to charge the guy a "stupidity fee" for being a jerk, but the remark about our daughter was over the top. So, the dude from Sister Coitus is promptly fired as a customer, physically ejected from the house, and the pieces of his rifle thrown out onto the lawn.

GOOD RIDDANCE!