Oh, wow. Well, that's kinda nasty...

[Swordsman422]

So I was sweeping the floor today when I had a spare minute and after one stroke, something small and tan went rolling across the floor. I walked up to it to pick it up and noticed eight little legs flailing for purchase.

It was an engorged tick.

It must have ridden in on some customer and dropped off. How in the hell do you not notice something the size of a marble clinging to you and sucking your blood? I swear some people in this county are subhuman.

I picked it up in a paper towel, took it outside, and used my lighter to burn it.

[rvdammit]

If you don't see it you don't feel it, they inject anasthetic and anti clotting stuff.

[AccountingDrone]

So I was sweeping the floor today when I had a spare minute and after one stroke, something small and tan went rolling across the floor. I walked up to it to pick it up and noticed eight little legs flailing for purchase.

It was an engorged tick.

It must have ridden in on some customer and dropped off. How in the hell do you not notice something the size of a marble clinging to you and sucking your blood? I swear some people in this county are subhuman.

I picked it up in a paper towel, took it outside, and used my lighter to burn it.

if you impale them on a pin and then heat them with a lighter you get a little ticky ramjet =)

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I have to wonder what burning a tick looks like.

My boyfriend set fire to a spider once (this was before we started dating). Long story short, he used surface spray instead of fly spray to kill a spider and then he decided to set it on fire.