Try searching your classmate for lice with a pencil

Got lice?

More and more people do, according to recent studies of the infamous head bug. And to make matters worse, they’re getting stronger.

According to the Washington Post, a recent study looked at 30 states and found that all but five had cases of head lice resistant to common remedies usually found over the counter. That means the lice are beating out medications and pesticides.

Washington is included in the list of resistant head lice.

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Things have changed since the school days of KIRO Radio’s John Curley. Back then, it was less about chemicals and more about pencils when it came to infamous head bug.

“You would have to lean back onto your neighbor’s desk, and you would take your two No. 2 pencils, unsharpened, and use your eraser to go through your neighbor’s hair,” Curley recalled. “I had Michael Caneen’s noggin.”

“For four years in a row Michael Caneen would lean back and stare at me through his weird, gross eyes, and breathing through his mouth with his boogies hanging out, and I would go through his hair with my No. 2 pencils,” he said.

It haunts Curley to this day.

Caneen had a crew cut, so it was simple. He never found a trace of lice on his classmate.

At least he didn’t have to search through Ernie Patone’s hair.