I still live at home.. but I also have a snake... which escaped last week... being amazingly brave I shouted my stepdad who proceeded to chase around the room pulling furniture and drawers out trying to catch the bugger... He was soo close to pulling out the sex draw! Then snake went walkies/slidies again! Phew, good job I moved everything out my bottom draw! that was the first he pulled out.
Soooo the moral of this story is, if you want to hide something, don't buy a snake! The tortoise never gives me any problems!