I am thinking of trading her some fish (overstocked goldfish tank, sigh...) for him. I only hesitate because I am paranoid about bringing outside disease into my snake population at home. Maybe I will just wait a few weeks and "quarantine" him at her place.
But it's a weird situation, because there's really no back rooms that the snake could be put in over there; the only closed-off room is really, really cold and not ideal for a snake to be in.
This is a pretty tough situation to be in. On one hand I just want to tell her that the snake would be better off secluded somewhere, like at home, rather than in a pretty busy pet store where of course, every customer wants to look in and see the snake. On the other hand, it is her snake, and I already have my hands full at home caring for my animals, and another snake, especially a potentially parasite-ridden, "wild card" snake.
Short-term, I guess all I can do is bump his temperatures up a little and add some sort of barricade on the outside of the cage to give him a bit more privacy.
Hmm... WWYD (what would you do?)