Send me ‘✂’ and my muse will kill yours. Right now. Brutally, horribly, bloody. Just do it.
Now, why on Earth would anyone want to coat check a snake? If one wanted to house a snake, they could have simply told him outright, and Ernest would have gladly provided a room and board, including the occasional concierge to feed and pet the creature, if that is what the ghastly guest required.
When someone one says “Put this package in deep storage for the next week, please, and don’t let anyone but me take it out,” you do exactly that. It is not polite to look inside the guest’s luggage--this is a hotel, not a TSA pre-flight check, for Christ’s sake. You lock the luggage away in the safe, and hand a key on a hook corresponding to the safe’s number, and you forget about it until the guest returns hours, days, weeks, months later, at which point you unlock the safe, wrinkle your nose at the horrendous odor, and take out a squishy suitcase with some sort of mold and ooze coming out of the sides.
Honestly, it’s not his fault the snake suffocated. After all, why on Earth would anyone want to coat check a snake?