what was your first ever experience with ball pythons

[C2tcardin]

I bought my first BP in 1978 from a pet store. It was a normal as that is all there where then. I had no idea if it was male or female but man did I love it. If I had only known then what I know now.

Beat me by 10 years, I got my first (also a normal) in 1988 just after high school. A friend had also gotten one so I was hooked as soon as I saw his and I thought they were just so cool. Sadly with no publicly available internet (at least in southern NH) and no books on BP's to learn from I failed to realize it's husbandry was awful and I didn't realize it likely had a RI and died after several months of not eating. Took me 26 years till I bought my next one which was early last year and know that I know what I'm doing, and slightly older, I have 12 of them.