I walked into a local gun shop and a friend of mine who worked there was holding a mint 3 inch Colt Python for me. After all, 10 years ago this dealer had a 2.5" blue Python and I'd agreed to purchase it but since the banks were closed I had to return the next morning with full payment for this Python. Well a new kid clerk had mistakenly sold this Python out from under me...but this friend of mine felt sympathetic towards me so he had promised me that if he ever got in another 2.5" Python that it would be mine? Unfortunately for the last 10 years every time I had visited this shop and had asked this friend the big question his answer was "NO"! But this morning I decided to go back to see my friend in this shop since I had not been back there for one year...but whenever I popped the big question to him he surprised me by pulling out a brown cardboard box containing a mint 3-inch Python he'd been saving just for me for quite awhile due to wanting to deliver on his 10 year old promise! He sold it to me for about one-half of the going market price! How's that for a true friend? The only reason this 3" Python had come in was due to a Widow who needed the money and she said that her husband had purchased this Python 15 years ago. I was stunned that my dream had come true today! Since I live in CA I can't pick this Python up for 10 days!