I would say about 75% of the people I have told I have a snake to have said, "Did you hear about that lady who had a snake in her bed, and it stopped eating, and it kept laying straight out next to her, , because it was preparing to eat her!"
And then I explain that first, that story is not even true. Secondly, I take it as an opportunity to explain that snakes are ambush predators, and that is not a situation in which they would typically find themselves in in the wild, and don't really have the instincts to do something like that. Then I ask them if it was an anaconda, and they always say, "I don't know," and I say an anaconda is pretty much the only snake who would really have the girth to eat a full grown person. I take it as an excuse to talk about snakes with someone who was really just trying to make me feel like I've made a bad choice in a pet.
If they are still listening, I tell them that Ghost is less than 2.5 pounds, and he is not stupid enough to even try to eat me.
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