My son is 21 in a week. Guess what he’s brought home..?

[TheLightSideOfTheMoon]

Nits.

Fucking NITS.

I’ve just spent the last few hours treating them.

I assumed this wouldn’t happen once the teen years had passed.

I am mightily confused.

Sympathies. My student son home for summer brought scabies ! A mild case but scabies no less. A few of his pals were much worse. We dealt with early thank god and no one else caught it but I spent WEEKS washing everything daily as a precaution . Apparently its common in student halls

I'm older than your DS and still love a good stick!
Yew was the best, or Hazel most useful.

I got bits from my kid and I didn’t realise for ages, actually until I combed my child’s hair and she had them then I did my own. Some people just don’t really get itchy- although I am now 😒

Sorry OP but I am howling. Wasn’t expecting that 😂

How can you not see nits in your hair? Even if you don't see an actual louse (those buggers know how to run and hide), the eggs are so sticky you can tell.

Surely a hairdresser would have mentioned. They won't touch hair with nits.

My head is so itchy now!

Well I’ve never offered to build a patio because of a son before but I suppose there’s a first time for everything.

Which colour paving stones would you like?

I had nits in my 20's I went on holiday with My OH and in every photo I'm scratching my head.. asked OH to check - no no nits..

Went home to my mum - said 'I'm itching here' and pointed - and one by one she 'de-nitted' me ..

I was a reception teacher at the time -and the small people would often come and cuddle me.. resulting in nits! since I've learnt to plait my hair - and keep it well out of the way!

Yeah don't ask him who he's been shagging. Ridiculous

That's actually really cute!

I think its noble of you to do this for him, but why can't he just shave / buzz his hair off and be done with it?

I'd do that and I'm a vain female whose hair was ruined with nit treatments when I caught it off my then small people.

You're a very kind mum to sit there and comb them out for him. I would have banished him to another room, or preferably another planet.

My 35 year old husband also still brings home sticks every time we go for a walk, he's like a golden retriever

I was 17 last time I had them, turned out that somebody decided to borrow my hat at work whilst I was off shift. Wasn't overly impressed but thankfully easy to treat and got a couple of days off whilst they ordered me a new hat.

I was hoping it was a guinea pig. I absolutely love them

I was lucky neither of mine ever had nits so I’ve never seen them. Don’t know how we got away with it because everyone else seemed to get them all the time. W they say nits like clean hair? My 2 were obviously very grubby 😂

@TheLightSideOfTheMoon Have to say I'm a little bit disappointed with the reveal there. I was hoping for - in no particular order:

• Some ridiculous animal/pet he wanted you to look after for him, like a baby zebra (zebling? zeblit?) or a flamingo named Harriet.

• His three new BFF's that he wants to stay in your house for all nine weeks of the summer stand-down, or whatever it's called in his chosen field. Who are all Jehovah's Witnesses who supplement their income by selling double glazing (I am not old stop saying I'm old my jokes are relevant and it's still 1984)

• A ferocious dose of galloping cock fungus, along with a case of bellend moss so acute that David Attenborough turns up with a film crew..

• Seventeen pallets of those stupidly expensive tiny glass bottles of Pepsi they sell in pubs that you have to use your back teeth front teeth cigarette lighter corner of Ma and Da's brand new dining room table industrial tools a bottle opener for, all of which A: have "TWIST TO OPEN" printed on them and B: an expiry date that says "Best before the battle of Waterloo, not for consumption by that short bloke in the silly hat or any of his French mates".

Nits will do I suppose, sometimes you've just got to take what's on offer and make the best of it right? You really got my hopes up for a minute there though...

“Have to say I'm a little bit disappointed with the reveal there. I was hoping for - in no particular order:

• Some ridiculous animal/pet he wanted you to look after for him”

He did though. He brought her nits and their many yet-unhatched offspring.

My 32 year old sister has recently moved back in with my parents after her divorce. She brought her beloved hamsters (Hamsel and Gretel) with her.

She called me a few nights ago in tears because my dad said she was too old to have hamsters and they have a “truly evil” vibe.

I love grown ups 😂

@qwerty98 Hamsters are not evil and no one is too old for them!

Truly evil 🤣

I never went on a walk with my Dad without him picking up a stick. DS seems to have inherited the habit, we have a stack of them by the back door.

Why is everyone so surprised that a 21 yr old has nits ? OP , if you've given him a hug , and touched heads , you may get them too ! My son and dil caught them from their ds who's seven , and they're way over 21 !!!

Ugh, I used to get them loads in my 20's, I worked in a nursery that seemed to be riddled in them

DD brought a cracking one home, which I now use to prop up some sweet pea plants.
My other son brought me a walking stick. From a skip 🙈. It's still in the garage.
OP this thread is brilliant. I thought you were comparing him to a cat and going to say dead chick on the mat. Or maybe not cat related, even a traffic cone.
It's good to see he isn't sone kind of weirdo 😂

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