Boy I am glad to be back here. What an interesting and aggravating weekend the ssjsmits had. Where to start? Oh first of, Mom and Dad went down to Peru.......Yeah Peru! A good majority of it will be in Iquitos. Any of you fellow RTC'ers who know me, know how insanely jealous I am. So that's that.
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Secondly, Brie made me drive down to Spokane this weekend to go to a stupid wedding. One of her 8 year Pharmacy College friends got married this weekend. So I went, unwillingly. And I cannot even begin to explain how out of place I was there. The whole wedding and especially the reception. Now mind you, these 100's and 100's of people have been in the same classes as Brie for the last 8 years. So needless to say, they all are a big part of her life right now and has made some strong friendships. SNOBS!!! ALL OF THEM, even at the age of like 24-28. Ironically, the Groom, was BA and did a keg stand with me.
Only a small handful, around 2 or 3 have met me before. Well, all of them are in the home stretch of the Pharm. program. Brie has talked about me to them over the years. And of course, what is the big thing that stands out?.....I am so freaking amazing....Okay well not so much that, but the boas. So over the years to them, I'm known as Brie's boyfriend, the guy who has snakes.
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Fast forward. We get to the reception and Brie starts introducing me to everyone. Whatever whatever, where's the keg right?
After things get rolling, we (Brie, myself and like 12 of her close friends) are all sitting at this one table. And every time I look up from stuffing my fat face, they all are looking at me.
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Finally, after a few Red Hooks
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This snobby "girl" finally says and this is a near direct quote, "Well we are all just trying to figure out why Brie is with someone like you".
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So I replied, "Okay, let me know what you figure out"
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"Oh, well I mean you just like snakes which is totally creepy" So the "girl", several others and I go at it back and forth for a good 30 minutes. I made a bunch a good points and shut them all up....But the "girl" kept pressing on, "AHEM....well whenever I see boas, I kill them on site"
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"Oh, really. You venture down South a lot?"
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"Chhhhh-yeah, I grew up in California"....
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Mind you, I am trying to be as nice as possible because Brie warned me not to smart off...."Well they are a little farther down than that"
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"Uh no, I see them all the time"
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....yadda yadda ya, I said something like "well they are in CA and SA"
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"For someone who keeps snakes, you need to figure out what you are keeping....Rattlesnake are down that far".
There's more, but needless to say, good laughs on my part.
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Now for the interesting part. And this has proven true over the years that I have been keeping these critters. People are so terrified of them, but as soon as they learn a little, even muster up the courage to hold one, they often get immediately addicted. Many end up eventually owning one themselves.
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Most of the people who actually listened to what I had to say, were generally more interested in snakes than before. Even had a few people say they will reconsider killing them on sight now. Whether they were just saying to that humor me or they, in fact, were inspired I don't know? But what I do know, having heard that, those wild California boas have a brighter future now.
Be safe.
