Crabgrass by Tauhid Bondia for August 10, 2022

Kevin: “See, capture the hat is when you throw a hat you stole from a homeless person onto the fattest, gnarliest rat you can find. The kid who manages to get it back gets to wear it.”

Nurse: “… didn’t need to know that.”

And now all the school has lices. The nurse will have a lot of work to do.

thank goodness i never had it. of course, back in the days our haircuts were basically buzzcuts

Never share your hats or brushes or combs or scrunchies with anyone.

So nobody had a flag?

Stop the spread now by massaging a couple of hands full of hand sanitizer gel into his hair.

Curious . . . lice generally prefer overly clean hair

Always hated taking care of kids who had lice when I worked in the hospital. Isolation cap and gown, gloves and you still felt itchy afterwards. They did not appreciate the nurses doing the shampoo and comb bit and the parents were never thrilled when we told them what they had to do to the siblings and their house.