My best friend is the one I fish with the majority of the time. We have been friends for about 3 years. His daughter and mine are both 8 and used to go to the same school. They are like two peas in a pod. Best friends. He and his family aren't the "cleanest" living people in the world but very caring and nice. Their trailer is always a wreck, cars a mess inside and out, and don't really take care of personal hygiene that well. The issue came up about a year ago when our daughter got head lice. Not dating our house is perfect, but it stays in museum condition daily. Just how we are. The clean freak kinda peeps. We got it treated immediately and very expensive to treat our daughter and preventative for us too. Come to find out that our daughters friend (my friend's daughter) had to leave school because she was caught scratching her head in class and the staff found TONS of lice and eggs in there. She got it "treated" at home with orange juice. Not effective at all but sent her back to school. Well, the next few weeks went by and the girls didn't have any sleepovers or play dates simply due to schedules. We has one shortly after and our daughter got lice the next day! More money and more hassle. We didn't say anything and then our daughter switched schools when we moved a couple months ago just about 15 minutes away. It was brought to our attention that several of the girls in her previous school had contacted had lice too! All of them were at a sleepover at the same girls house! Since our daughter switched schools over two months ago her and her friend have not had any sleepovers or long play dates. About a week ago they did at great Wolf Lodge for my daughter's birthday. You guessed it, lice the next day after the birthday weekend was done. My wife flipped out when we found them at home. So we mentioned it to my friend and his wife when we got back from the trip that their daughter had been scratching her head again and that our daughter had gotten lice once again. My friend is the most oblivious and apathetic person and said he would check his daughter out. He called me about 5 minutes later and told me that she was clear and our daughter probably got it from the Great Wolf from a other kid. What!?!?!? First of all my wife works in medicine and both girls have long hair and she does our daughter'a hair in about 1-1.5 hiurs. It is not a 5 minute deal. So his wife was very defensive and seemed ticked off. So we decided between me and my wife that the girls would just need a break until we could nicely tell them that their daughter needs to be treated by a professional clinic or at home with the RX solutions like we did. Now the issue. His wife texts me and and my wife today super pusses off that the girls haven't been together for about 2 weeks and want to know why. My wife wrote out the text response but hasn't sent it out. She will to tight after I read it. I know his wife will be ticked but we have to be honest about it too. He probably won't really care but he may get offensive too. Ok any event it is not worth the hassle. We can't make excuses about it anymore. This is crazy. Sorry to vent. I never post about this stuff but you guys are good sounding boards. :-)
Joe
