I attended a pretty big reptile expo yesterday and today, my first time at this expo, because a friend of mine invited me along to her vend her stall with her. I brought some mice, and a few other odds and ends, and mostly chilled with her and watched the table when she needed a break.
Today, as we were cleaning and packing up, the guy that ran the show came over to talk, he purchased one of @teameagleworks dragon pens I had brought with me, and ten minutes later he returned with this:
And asked me if I wanted it for free. He explained it was a Solomon Islands monkey tailed skink he had purchased alive for $1500, kept as a pet for years, and donated to science post mortem. "Science just returned him to me," he said, and went on to explain that it made him too sad to see his buddy like this, but that I seemed like I would give him a good home. And also that if he didn't give him to me, he would be putting him in the basement, "for the next owners of my house to find."
So, Pothos came home with me, and I will be driving him to the east coast sometime this summer to give him to a curiosities collector I'm friends with out there. She's already making him a plaque that reads "Pothos- donated to science and science donated him back."
I want to be clear I met this man yesterday for just a minute while he collected table money, and talked to him for maybe 10 minutes today. Also he wasn't wrong. He took one look at me, in my boring jeans and regular hoodie, and went "yeah that one's into weird shit" and he wasn't even wrong.
Anyway, looking forward to the next expo already.
