So earlier I was sitting here watching a rerun of Yes, Dear. This is a show I hated at first a couple of years ago but now that I sit and watch it, it’s actually quite funny.

Anyway, in this certain episode, the oldest boy comes home from a slumber party with head lice. Accidentally, his father passes it along to the kid in the other family (pats his son’s head, doesn’t know he has lice, then goes in and pats the other kid’s head). That whole family ends up getting it and the father of that family ends up giving it to his boss. Of course, the show is funny but sitting here watching that had me itching all over just by suggestion.

I remember getting head lice in the 3rd grade. My bonehead of a teacher had the room set up so that there were two rows of desks and they were all pushed right up against one another. After recess, she used to make us lay our heads down on our desks for some time. I hated doing that. I think we were seated alphabetically and the girl to my left had this really long blonde hair… and she always wore it down and it always got on my desk during this head-laying-down time. I hated that. It wasn’t long after I complained to my mom about it that a good number of our class got head lice… starting with that girl.

I don’t remember too much about the whole incident except getting my hair washed time and time again with this special shampoo, I think it stunk. And then some fine tooth comb that really hurt because it pulled my hair. Mom also had to wash all of my stuffed animals, bedding, and probably most of my clothing.

I remember a discussion with mom while she was washing my hair. I was telling her that some girl in my class was “dating” a 5th grader (LOL) and mom was telling me how silly that was. I then said that, wouldn’t it be neat to get married in the year 2000, because then you’d always know how many years you’d been married? You know, two years in 2002, seven years in 2007, and so on? Hey, I know it’s not rocket science, I was only in 3rd grade. :P Mom laughed and said, “well, you never forget how long you’ve been married.”

Incidentally? I got married in 2000.