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FLEAS
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Copyright 1991, Adam Poszar.
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Fleas? Yeah, we had 'em. Whole darned town had 'em.
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Lady on the news said it was because of the weather.
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Don't know if I ought to believe her or not.
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The dog brought 'em in.
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The vet gave us some pills, for the dog that is.
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Didn't work. Gave the dog a bath. Dog had 'em the next
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day.
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My wife found one on her ankle. "Least we got one of
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'em," I told her. That made her grumpy AND jumpy.
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Went back to the vet, got some special flea-killing
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soap and gave the dog another bath. That lasted 'bout two
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days.
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Went out and bought fifty dollars worth of chemical
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stuff and bombed the house. Didn't see a single one, for
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almost a week.
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I found a couple, one was on my foot, the other was on
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my wrist. I wasn't quick enough. One of 'em got away.
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Got to where we were smackin' places that felt like
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fleas whether there were fleas there or not.
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Gave the dog another bath, again with the special
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soap, sprayed it with some special kind of poison spray
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the vet sold us, and put a sure-kill flea collar on it.
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Oh yeah, and we got sixty dollars more in chemicals and
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bombed the house again.
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We watched nervously for two weeks.
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Now I admit we were pretty jumpy by then. There were
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a couple of nights when I woke up 'cause my wife was
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scratchin' herself in her sleep. I never said anything to
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her 'cause she was scratching places that we very rarely
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discussed.
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I'd even gotten to slapping myself when I was at work.
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It wouldn't have been so bad except that we both have
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freckles.
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'Bout halfway through the second week, the dog's hair
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started falling out. At least it made it easier to find
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the fleas when they came back.
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Less that a month ago we got rid of the dog. It
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looked like a sixty-pound Chihuahua by then anyway.
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And we bombed the house again, this time with over a
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hundred dollars worth of stuff. It's been a month and a
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half since, and we haven't seen a single flea.
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This morning I got up early, made coffee, and took a
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cup up to my wife. She was still asleep.
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I set the cup down real careful, so's not to spill
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any. I leaned across the bed and gave her a big kiss.
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She smiled, opened her eyes, reached up, and slapped
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me in the face so hard I almost saw stars!
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"Sorry Honey," she said, "I guess it was just a
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freckle."
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