Reptile show woes...

[Humble308]

Hey yall

Just got back from the Cleveland Reptile Show and my goodness is packed to the rafters in there. It's usually pretty crowded when I've gone there, but it seemed especially bad today. Took about 15 mins to move 20 feet, and we were cut about 4 times before we finally got in a spot to look at Zerkle' Reptiles which is my favorite table there. I'm not sure how they weasel their way in, but it's annoying as hell to folks like me who are trying to be polite and move through the show with the line. It's nut to butt in there and you've got these idiots sticking their arm in your face to take a picture of some animal you're standing next to. You've got to basically be touching the person in front of you to make sure you won't get cut again.

I'd planned to grab some dubia today from my toads but couldn't stomach the crowd and we end up leaving after being bumped and shoved into countless times. I'm not a fan of large crowds as it is, but it seems the reptile crowds are especially rude and just unaware of what's going on around them. I've been to this show about 4-5 times, but it's the only show I've been to. Now that I've got all that off my chest I'm curious if any of yall have had the same experience with reptile shows in general? I'm really enjoying keeping snakes, but I'm a bit put off by alot of the folks at these shows

It looked to be alot of cool stuff there but we didn't get to see a damn thing due to the crowd. Zerkle did have some albino house snakes I was tempted to pick up, but decided against it as we may be moving to Texas soon. A side note, are there any decent venues in the Dallas/Ft Worth area that you guys know of? I hate to pay the costly shipping fees of buying snakes online but it seems worth it to avoid the headache of these shows....I hope they're not all like that?

Well my whine fest is over, thanks for the ear.