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June 13, 2008
A Drive By Tick-ing…………
This whole last week has been incredibly busy as I have been wallpapering like crazy. I do not use the term “crazy” lightly…when I say crazy you should think “Lucy and Ethel” putting-up-wallpaper-crazy.
Not enough time in the day anymore ….
But it’s not like this week has been exactly dull either.
There are very few people in this world that I dislike… I can count them on one hand….but there are some people even I just can’t like no matter how hard I try. You know what I mean…we have all met them.
Well, in a moment that could only be called a prime example of karmic justice, I ran into one of my least favorite people.
My husband and I had just spent the afternoon checking out a ranch that over looks the ocean. An absolutely beautiful place where the only sounds that you hear are the wind high in the Sitka spruce trees and bird song and the waves crashing on the beach below. Yes…there will be pictures….later.
So there we are, having taken a much deserved break from both work and the old house, driving back to town picking ticks off ourselves….or should I say that I was picking ticks off my husband. They love him…go figure. Ah….the romance of it all.
Heh.
I was pretty sure that I didn’t have any ticks on me simply because there aren’t any creepy, entitled, bloodsucking creatures that actually like me. Just ask the Seattle latte liberals….
I am pretty sure this is why said ,disliked by-me-intensely person, doesn’t like me.
That, and the fact that I called major bullsh*t on her publicly. It had to be done. As I get older I find that I suffer fools less readily than ever…and, frankly, it’s not a skill I have ever been good at anyway, nor want to be.
So there we are driving the truck back through town and horror of horrors I feel a tick crawling on my neck. Okay…even though I was a rancher for 23 years and am hardly a wuss, still, there is something about a tick on your neck that gets the same reaction from everyone. It’s primal……..
You grab the tick ...okay, while yelping slightly, I admit it...and while holding the squirming tick you roll down the window and eject it. Right?
Yeah…and this is where the karmic justice comes in…guess who was waiting to cross the street right outside my window?
You guessed it…Miss Unpleasant. And I am pretty sure it landed right on the dead poodle that she wears on her head her hair.
And no, I didn’t do it on purpose; to be honest I didn’t even see her as I was so freaked out by the tick.
All I knew was my husband was dying laughing, obviously at my expense I thought and so I turned to look at him with, as he described later, the look I usually reserve for rotten teenagers…it would blanch an almond. I am thinking of patenting it.
I didn’t even realize what had happened until my gasping–for–air-because-he-was- laughing-so-hard husband gasped out “look in the rearview mirror for cripes sake”
Some things are obviously meant to be. I couldn’t do that again if I tried.
A drive by tick-ing….
And for all my friends in town…the members of the secret society: S,M,P,D,C,M,C…that one was for all of you……..
Let's see if you can top it...........
UPDATE: I should have added that one local wag, after hearing this story asked if the tick was okay......
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That least faverite person colul the initals be SS?
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at June 18, 2008 07:48 AM
SS???? No....you mean there is someone even creepier than CT?
Okay...you're killing me...who is SS? You can email me you know............
Posted by: christmasghost at June 21, 2008 04:31 PM