Impetigo?
Really?
(Zoz prayed for twink on, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 12:11, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

i don't actually know what it is
skin complaint maybe?
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 12:20, Reply)

isn't it a really infectious skin thing that looks like coldsores?
I remember someone at school got it and everyone acted like she had leprosy.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 12:21, Reply)

kid in our street had it
One day when I was out playing he got into my room and emptied my toybox.
I got home, saw him, and ran into the living room screaming "MUM, THE IMPETIGO BABY'S IN MY ROOM!"
Then I was packed off to Nana's for the weekend while my mum Dettol-ed everything.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 12:23, Reply)

Replace the word
"impetigo" with "black", and your family becomes horrible.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 12:24, Reply)

Hahah
It was still a bit mean of me, but she'd instilled me with such fear.
She used to say "Don't touch James. He's infectious" and I'd say "You mean Bumpy? He only plays with the naughty kids anyway." And she'd say "They're naughty for calling him that. Don't call him that. And don't play with him."
His parents used to leave him in the street then go out to shoplift.
The men from the mobile shop used to let him sit in there and get warm.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 12:30, Reply)

Classic Liverpool

(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 12:31, Reply)

aww it's like you lived during the blitz or something
but I guess it's just Liverpool.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 12:33, Reply)

To be fair, even the miscreants on our estate saw the Bumpy situation as extreme
and they called Social Services all the time. Nothing seemed to happen.
Then they won 50 grand on the bingo and moved to Blackpool.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 12:35, Reply)

And I'd have LOVED the Blitz.

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 12:36, Reply)

I don't think it's EXACTLY like Goodnight Sweetheart

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 12:50, Reply)

:(

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 13:19, Reply)

But then ...
if one kid gets chicken pox, all the parents want their child to play with them. Swings and roundabouts.
(Zoz prayed for twink on, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 12:34, Reply)

*dons scrubs and surgical mask*
Impetigo is a highly contagious bacterial skin infection most common among pre-school children.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 12:22, Reply)

That's what condoms are for!

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 12:24, Reply)

Yes it is
Kids get it often, some antibiotics usually takes care of it. Just wondering why it would be a big payout.
(Zoz prayed for twink on, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 12:24, Reply)

i was being totally flippant
and thereby showing my ignorance of both personal injury law and diseases!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 12:26, Reply)

I dunno, the psychological trauma that school children can cause
could be quite a high payout!
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Wed 4 Aug 2010, 12:33, Reply)