Burns / Infection / Unknown Disease : One of the Worst Snake Owners

[dkatz4]

I'm worried, though. I don't have many friends and she's one that stuck with me since junior high. She always does this crap, though, saying that people don't have permission to look up a YouTube video on her computer even though they're her friend and they're inside her house only wanting to show something funny or cool. She can be a complete brat at times and she's God awful to her little brother who has quite literally asked me to take him home because she's so mean to him.

At the same time she's a good friend. She's funny and we can joke about a lot of things others don't find amusing. We play the same games and like the same things. On days like those the good outweighs the bad but it's starting to drift differently. I remember she'd always hate Slick, the boa, because he bit her. Can you really blame him? I want to give her a firm backhanded slap sometimes. He was scared. He was taken out of his tank at the wrong time and hid under a couch. She then tried to grab him from the front. It's not his fault she's not aware of how to handle a threatened snake. He's a sweet snake that gets grumpy when he's hungry because he's not fed properly. He's underweight to no surprise and I'd be pissed, too. She always hates it when I ask Arthur to take Slick out. Come on, man. Give the guy some love. I doubt these guys ever get handled outside of me coming over there.

I'm having issues at the moment because she removed me from her contacts on Skype. Obviously, I have multiple ways of contacting her but getting in touch is not the point. I got in a fight with her cousin today and I don't know if that triggered it or my phone call. She's hot-headed and will probably get over it but I don't want that to effect if I get Scorchmuffin or not.

I can still hear what she said. "Everything's fine; you don't need to worry about a thing because we have it under control."

Dave would've died there.

This is a toxic situation, the more contact you have with these folks the more you will succumb to it. I can only infer that you are in high-school, and can tell you that this is when kids start to become the adults that they will eventually be. It seems like you are becoming a responsible and compassionate person, but from what i've seen here, this other person is not. There are lots of people who will like the same jokes and games as you but the ties that bind are the values that you share - again, from what i've seen here and in your post about Dave, its would seem that you and this person do not have many values in common. Your persistance in helping these animals is truly admirable, and i'm sure you will pursue it further, but beyond that i would highly reccomend that you remove this person from your life. It might seem like a bummer now, but 15, 20 years from now you'll look back and be glad you stopped hanging out with the crazy kid who tortured her pets (and her brother, apparently). Good Luck.