What's a Chigger?

[Dookus]

[southlandshari]

1. anyone from the south should know this!

Where I come from, a chigger is a tiny tick-like bug that bites and makes you itch like crazy!

[Viking12]

2. They occur in the north as well...

just not as often as in the south. Nasty SOBs.

[RoadRunner]

3. A chigger is what ya' get lying in the grass watching lightin' bugs.

And that's a fact.

[ashling]

4. Chiggers, redbugs, those damn grass mites!

If you'd ever been covered with 'em you'd know!

[Blue-Jay]

6. Exactly! How could the evil bug not be on the poll?

I hate those things. Worse than skeeters.

[Dookus]

8. I guess we never had 'em

in any place I've lived. I grew up on Long Island and have lived in coastal California for the last 20 years.

I know mosquitos, ticks, gnats and other assorted nasties. But not chiggers.

[Blue-Jay]

10. They're nasty little bastards, Dookus.

They bite in en masse and leave marks like fleas that itch like hell.

Every midwesterner knows about chiggers. Count yourself among the lucky.

[Donkeyboy75]

5. The mere word makes me uncomfortable

[ashling]

7. ever had a chigger on your jigger?

not where you'd want to have them.:evilgrin:

[Dookus]

9. nope

but if you get a skeeter on your peter, whack it off.

[Blue-Jay]

12. What if there's a dozen on your cousin?

(I really need to get some smokes)

[jmowreader]

17. And you can hear the bastards buzzin?

[Feanorcurufinwe]

11. Chiggers are extremely unpleasant.

Let's just leave it at that.

[put out]

13. A curse on humans.

You have never encountered chiggers? Bwa-ha-ha-ha.

Story: I was camp nurse for disabled Girl Scouts. Our unpaid staff in this outdoors, Midwest camp was comprised of older teen-aged Girl Scouts from all over the country. Those from either coast thought that when they were warned of chiggers, it was like "snipe hunt", in other words, an urban legend or a prank on the unsuspecting.

Sadly for them, they should have paid attention to their elders.

Chiggers won't kill you, but they can make you wish you were dead (hyperbole, but not much).

[Magrittes Pipe]

14. Oh, shit, I nearly peed myself thinking of that "Crank Yankers" skit.

You are a funny man, Dookus.

[name not needed]

15. I no wigga, I a chigga

:P

[Dookus]

16. ???

What skit? I've never seen Crank Yankers. Did they steal from me, or did I steal from them?

[jmowreader]

18. I saw it in a John Valby concert