If ever I’m having blood extracted and the medical tech can’t find a good vein, I will draw on my long experience as a Minnesotan and tell her the most attractive location of blood on my body. My ankles.
At least according to mosquitoes.
You could be wearing no more than a Speedo and a smile and they would feast on your ankles. And ankle welts itch more than welts in any other location, too. After recent rainstorms brought more skeeters, I found myself dealing with innumerable (OK, two) ankle bites. What to do?
First choice: Calamine lotion. Put some on. It did nothing. Then I looked at the bottle. I’d grabbed the generic Pepto-Bismol. Well, that explained why the upset stomach I had last week didn’t go away after two glugs of the pink stuff. On the other hand, my small intestine didn’t itch.
Second choice: Slather on the hydrocortisone. The tube says it’s 1% hydrocortisone. Big market opportunity for someone to roll out 2% and corner the market. Anyway, that didn’t work, either.
I’m off to a bad start on Mosquito Season.
The almost nonstop wet weather means there were standing pools of water, and mosquitoes can spontaneously generate in a discarded bottle cap if there are more than six H2O molecules present.
That means I have to get out all the anti-skeeter tools. Which are:
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