#herpaderps

This is Hermione. She lives in a tank in the room of my bio lab. And is the reason I came home from said lab SEETHING with rage.

I had made my peace with the fact that I would probably only be able to admire her from afar. But today, since vertebrates are one of the topics, the TA says that after lab we can hold her if we want! So I'm psyched through the next two hours. 

But then, when the time came to get her out of the tank, the guy they picked clearly had literally ZERO snake experience, except for maybe the wild garter snakes living under the house. Because what does he do? HE GRABS HER HEAD LIKE HE THINKS HE'S FREAKING JEFF CORWIN WRANGLING A BLACK MAMBA. 

And then, mystery of mysteries, the snake starts to freak out! And get stressed! Almost like THAT'S NOT HOW YOU HOLD A FUCKING PET SNAKE. And then he puts her right back down in the tank and closes the lid and NOBODY gets to hold her.