12-30-2006, 04:57 AM
Try this nightmare;
Clearing brush on the far side of a nice river swimming hole for a rope swing to while away the 100 degree summer afternoons...
And realizing as you're yanking bushes out of the ground with bare hands... wiping the sweat away...
And pushing the shrubbery down the river... as an odd little oil slick surrounds your body...
And then we all realized that those "bushes" were POISON OAK!
By this time, it was far too late...
The horror of the next two weeks of swollen pus filled agony left me a changed man...
I want that species of plant exterminated from this earth.
Clearing brush on the far side of a nice river swimming hole for a rope swing to while away the 100 degree summer afternoons...
And realizing as you're yanking bushes out of the ground with bare hands... wiping the sweat away...
And pushing the shrubbery down the river... as an odd little oil slick surrounds your body...
And then we all realized that those "bushes" were POISON OAK!
By this time, it was far too late...
The horror of the next two weeks of swollen pus filled agony left me a changed man...
I want that species of plant exterminated from this earth.