NITPICKER — by Steve Nadis
For years, I’ve heard the term “nitpicker” and have used it myself, in the figurative sense, on quite a few occasions. But it’s only been in the last week, when head lice infestations broke out in my daughter’s classroom, that I’ve come to know the literal meaning of the word. Nitpickers are thought to be overly fastidious people who seize on the smallest detail and go after it with a vengeance. Once they find what they are looking for, they cannot be deterred. These traits can be considered a real pain in the ass, but there is a time when those qualities are, instead, a real virtue. And that happens to be a time when there are real nits to be picked.
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I don’t hae the patience for nitpicking. I used a nit comb. Isn’t it amazing that in this day and age of anti-bacterial and germ-free hysteria, that kids still get headlice? Personally, I’d rather have the germs and bacteria.
Good point, OR. I cannot find liquid soap anymore that is non-antibacterial. In other words, I cannot find bacterial soap anywhere.
There are still anti-anti bacterial soaps out there for those of us who don’t mind the little germs. Better that than breeding uber-bacteria that are resistant to our efforts to thwart them. Walgreens has a good non-anti bacterial hand soap, but it’s in the beauty aisle, not the soap aisle. It even has peach oil in it so it smells good; much better than the chemical smell of the anti bacterial soaps. More information than you were looking for? Yes, probably!
Thanks Daphne — it’s good to know that one can still buy good, old-fashioned bacterial soap these days.