This reminds me of the days(6 days, to be exact) that I was a field technician(PC). Once I visited a horribly maintained house. The woman kindly invited me in to show me the PC that had to be fixed. I was looking around cautiously because the house smelled funny, there was a huge hole in the front porch, and I saw some black and purple stuff growing on the bedroom windowsill. But I sit down in front of the PC in question to check it out, and then she dropped this bomb. "Do you mind if there is a snake in this room?" I looked to my right, and sure enough there was a 6 foot long snake in a cage. The cage obviously wasn't big enough, and the wirescreen on the cage looked like I could push a hole through it with my finger. I had lots to say about whether I'm comfortable with the snake or not, but instead I just asked the woman how often she feeds the snake, replaced a CD-ROM in record time, and got out of there.