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Head lice?
9Feb2006 Filed under: Days Go By Author: ValSo 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.
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Azurae
February 10th, 2006 at 6.10 am
Lice are attracted to clean heads (obviously!) and so there is almost no way to keep it from spreading to you. My sister and I both had is because the new gym at our school had carpeted walls (about 6′ from floor upward) to deaden sounds… we had to sit along the wall for roll call. Easy to see what happend huh?
I always hope I have my kids in -5 or -0 years because then their age is easy to remember. But how could I forget my child(ren)’s age? Crazy thinking… maybe. No kids so far (thankfully!)
Nicole Ross
February 11th, 2006 at 9.52 am ♥
I luckily never had it. But now my head itches.
Samantha
February 11th, 2006 at 4.09 pm
I had head lice last may! No fun! I never really noticed how many people put their had near years… and the most horrible thing was that we discovered it on a holiday (the fifth of may, liberation day where we all just celebrate or freedom after world war 2 by going to free concerts ;)). All the stores were closed, so we could by the anti-lice shampoo.
I don’t know who the kid was that gave it to me, at the time I was helping out at a daycare centre… I think I got it from there.
Luckily the shampoo doesn’t smell anymore… but my uncle loves to tell the story of me giving him lice when I was little. He gave it to his girlfriend. Back then you had to put that shampoo or something in your hair and leave it in all night. Then he got a call that a friend of him was in the hospital and he was walking around whole night in the hospital while smelling really badly.