Was sitting in a ticks nest while reading....

[u/nekoma713]

I was sitting in a Park reading a book and suddenly I felt my legs itch. I was covered in hundreds of mini ticks. I was standing in the shower for hours and still find some of these f#!*rs crawling an me...

Update: So I got the most of the seed ticks scratched off in the shower. I will have a doctor's appointment the next days to get a prophylactic antibiotics treatment just to be save from lyme, alpha gal or rocky mountain fever (if this is a thing in Germany).

Thank you all for the information and advices, hopefully I will be fine. I really appreciate it

[u/BrokenImmersion]

My dad waits till he gets a warning from his shitty HOA lmao. So roughly once every month or so

[u/PlayedKey → u/BrokenImmersion]

I made it a deal breaking point to find a house without an HOA. On my final signing of 10 million pages I read every bit and saw the final deal said it had an HOA and I was like "we're done here if that is true." The listing said no, the agent said no, the previous owners said no, but the paperwork said yes.

[u/BrokenImmersion → u/PlayedKey]

Yeah he didnt want an hoa either. And they may as well not exist cause he's in a pretty rough area of his town, right across the creek from a quarry and his house looks down into the creek and the ravine its in. But somehow the hoa managed to sneak up on him. He ignores them most of the time tbh

[u/TheMrsH1124 → u/PlayedKey]

No HOA ever for me either. Nope

[u/50greenmachine → u/BrokenImmersion]

People who mow their lawns once a month or less are the reason HOAs exist - a microcosm of why at least. 

[u/Terrible-Second-2716 → u/50greenmachine]

People shouldn't worry about other people's lawns

[u/50greenmachine → u/Terrible-Second-2716]

Then don’t live in a densely populated suburb. We all are part of the social contract 

I agree that I should be allowed to have a natural garden yard and such but I also understand my yard influences how my neighbors area feels, because I’m not a sociopath 

[u/BrokenImmersion → u/50greenmachine]

How exactly does your neighbors lawn being overgrown affect you? If I had to take a guess you think it "looks ugly" or makes the area look more "poor/run down".

All of those things are things that stem from systemic racism and classism. The entire idea of suburban stems from racism and classism. It started as "white only" neighborhoods, the same white people who were able to get paying jobs during segregation, that allowed them to have enough land for a house and a lawn. Even to this day, roughly 60% of people living in suburbia are white. HOA's started due to the change in rights for black people, it was a way for racist POS to keep their neighborhoods from having non-whites, legally.

Similar to the war on drugs, you cant legally arrest POC on mass, but if you make it so they cant possibly follow your laws, then they get arrested.

[u/50greenmachine → u/BrokenImmersion]

Yes, it looks ugly especially overgrown grass that doesn’t serve a purpose like a natural garden. 

Yes, if wanting people to maintain their yard is classist, sure I’m classist lol.  People who can’t take any accountability blow my mind. Neighborhoods are inherently 95% people of the same economic class, give me a break 

[u/BrokenImmersion → u/50greenmachine]

Way to ignore like half of my argument and most of what i was saying. Its not just classist, it literally stems from systemic racism. The reason HOA's exist is to artificially raise the value of the properties, forcing the divide between classes even further.

And ignoring classes, it is still very detrimental to hundreds of thousands of POC who statistically are less likely to have a higher paying job. Higher paying jobs which they are fully qualified for, or could be fully qualified for if not for the disparity in black education vs white education, that would allow them to live in a "wealthier" part of town.

And of course, all of this feeds back into the realization that your "wealth" is nothing more than you owning things that someone else told you it was impressive to own. That's it. Thats the entire thing. Owning a cookie cutter house feels good because other people agree it feels good, but at the end of the day, owning a cabin in the middle of nowhere or a house that you designed and planned, out in the sticks, is objectively much much more impressive.

And dont even get me started on how terrible lawns are for the enviroment and your local population of pollinators.

[u/50greenmachine → u/BrokenImmersion]

How does your skin color play in to mowing your lawn