Listen man. When you are stuck in the tiny compartment section at the front of the train car with three other people in close range of you, it is not cool to start sighing loudly and scratching your arms, head and balls rigorously. It actually makes us really uncomfortable, especially those of us who have been told in the past that "you can get scabies (or bedbugs, lice, crabs, etc) from anywhere, even from just sitting next to someone on the train who has it. It will jump from them to you and then you are stuck with it."
The guy sitting next to you was pretty grossed out, I think. I base this assumption on the looks he gave you every time you started squirming again in your seat and scratching at yourself. It sort of looked like he was smelling something awful and looking at something rotten at the same time. I think he was thinking the same thing I was--that suddenly I was very itchy too.
Based on your behavior--the sighing, the reaching into your pocket for your broken smartphone and putting the loose battery back in and tapping the screen with your thumb as if you had a nervous tic--I hoped perhaps you were just jonesing for a fix or something. Maybe the itching on your arms was in response to the drugs in your blood stream wearing off or something. But trust me, I scoured your body with my eyes for track marks to confirm this and saw nothing. A little dry skin problem, maybe. But no tracks. Thankfully no tiny red marks that are the telltale sign of scabies or bedbugs either. But that still leaves crabs and lice as a possible culprit. So no relief on that front for us stuck in the tiny compartment with you.
I guess we will never know what had you so spastic and itchy today. Unless of course we start feeling the same way in about 24 hours when the bugs have invaded our bodies and lives. Thanks in advance for the special gift you may or may not have given us all today. We're thrilled. Truly.
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