thursday thirteen

That bites

1. Once when I was about 12 or something I was sleeping on the floor in my grandma's little adobe house and I woke up just itching and burning and found that I was lying in a mighty mess of little bitty Ants.
   


2. I was a nursing mother, so suffice it to say I've been bitten by Babies.
   


3. We had cats growing up and cats will bite if given a good reason. And what is a good reason is an absolute mystery to humans.
   


4. We had chickens and they peck. That's the same as a bite. They just don't really have teeth, but it still smarts.
   


5. Duck bites don't really hurt.
   


6. Once I was riding my pony past the neighbors' corral and their darn horse just reached over the fence and bit me in the arm. Tarnation, that hurt.
   


7. I used to be a mosquito magnet. I could leave a place with twenty bites and no one else would have any. My chemistry must have changed because that doesn't happen anymore. Good thing, too, because I was allergic.
   


8. My pony bit me. Dumb thing, really. Me, I mean. I was in the chicken pen and stuck my finger through the wire to pet her nose and she snapped onto it like it was a carrot. I couldn't do anything to get her to let go because there was a chicken fence between us. When I pulled, she bit harder. Thought I was going to lose it -- you know, my finger. But she finally let go. Didn't even break the skin, but felt like it was breaking the bone.
   


9. Puppies bite everyone
   


10. My rabbit bit me. I was showing my sister where its mouth was – and it showed me.
    


11. I've been bit by a stinkin rat.
    


12. My sister, she used to bite me a lot.
    


13. I bit my aunt once when I was an adult even. She asked for it, I bet.