Angelo Hates Mosquitoes Too

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Robert E. Jordan
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since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

0 posted 2008-07-30 05:54 PM

Angleo want to know
why Felix hates
mosquitoes so much.

Felix relates an experience
he had while consulting
at a chemical plant
in the tropics.

He was in the dispensary,
talking to the doctor.

One of the twelve or thirteen
year-old child laborers
at the plant is brought in.

The kid was taken sick
while digging a drainage ditch.

The kid is shaking,
sweating,
and he looks scared.

He has no idea why
he feels so bad.

The doctor begins working
on the child at once.

The doctor explains to Felix
that the kid has malaria.

It’s common in the area.

The child will recover,
but probably not completely.

He very likely
will be bothered
off and on
the rest of his life.

That brings
Sally’s father
to mind.

Her father had caught malaria
when he ran away from home
when he was a child.

As an old man,
Sally’s father
still has spells.

That was enough for Angelo,
now Angelo hates mosquitoes too.

Bobby

Marchmadness
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since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

1 posted 2008-07-30 05:57 PM

Me too.
Ida

Robert E. Jordan
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since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

2 posted 2008-07-30 06:13 PM

Thanks dear Ida,

That makes at least five of us that hate them.

You, the little kid, Angelo, Sally's old man, and Felix(me).

Bobby

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

3 posted 2008-07-30 07:02 PM

So many people died and still die from malaria, especially children. It is a tragedy, I bet Angelo and Felix hate those killers.

Since we have so called Tiger mosquitos in Italy, which were imported from the East, summertime is fastidious to the extreme ... always itching! They bite during the day too! During the first years they were here, they attacked only the legs, up to the knees ... but they have learned quickly that there was more skin surface higher up too ...
I so loved to read on the balcony till over midnight, now there is no chance even if I use deterrents ...
How not detest them?
I wish there were new non toxic means to cancel them!
Good one, dear Bobby!
Love,
Margherita

Robert E. Jordan
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since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

4 posted 2008-07-30 07:21 PM

Thanks dear Margherita,

Yes, Angelo and Felix hate them.

We are fairly lucky here in the city, even though we live near the river. I think it's the lack of pools of stagnate water. The river flows fast past Philadelphia.

I sit out in front of the house every night, and I haven’t been bitten this year.

Of course, this far north is not malaria country.

Bobby

Artic Wind
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since 2007-09-16

Posts 8080
Realm of Supernatural

5 posted 2008-07-30 10:09 PM

Tell ya the honest truth, I have never been bitten by one in my whole life!-- Everyone has a hard time believeing that, but it is true...

I still don't like them. Bug spray doesn't even work.

ARCTIC WIND

Robert E. Jordan
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since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

6 posted 2008-07-30 10:23 PM

Yo Artic Wind,

That is hard to believe.

You are a very lucky person. They must not like your blood.

I'm glad that you were spared the misery.

Bobby

Prasad Nataraj
Senior Member

since 2008-05-29

Posts 1149
Bangalore,India

7 posted 2008-07-31 06:56 AM

Hi Bobby,
There is only one intellectual misquote in my house, guess why? Because it bites only me whenever it feels thirsty. I hate them too. Enjoyed. Prasad

"Hardwork pays in the long run"

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