I seem to be having a lot of incidents with arthropods here lately, what with my Interesting entries on the
wasp and the
crane fly. Well this time it's not an insect, but an arachnid, a tick to be specific.
I finally get the ole paint ball gun put together, so Khine and I go out behind our apartment towards the woods to shoot off a few rounds. About a month ago I built a target out of some tin cans, a long piece of metal and some string, so we set it on a log only about 10feet into the woods from the edge of the grass.
After about 30min or so, when we ran out of paint balls, we cleaned up and headed back to the apartment. Later, when I was getting a shower, I noticed a dark round mark on my upper thigh. After closer inspection, I discovered it was a Tick! I told Khine about it and she was mortified! She had never seen one attached to a human before. And we were both kind of shocked that I had one considering we weren't out very long at all.
Like most ticks, it was attached pretty good. It was yanking my skin every time we tried to pull it off. Luckily I remembered an old trick I learned from when I was a kid. If you hold a match near them they might loosen up their hold. Well sure enough, it did, and we pulled him right off.
Moral of the story, always check yourself for ticks even if you were only in the woods for a minute.
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