Hair Fairies To The Rescue
Lice are refreshingly non-discriminatory. Rich or poor, white or black, they will happily inhabit the head of any human they can get their little licey claws on. All they need are a few strands of hair to cling to and stick their little eggs on and they are set.
Enter the Hair Fairies, a chain of professional nit-pickers coming soon to a neighborhood near you. For $95/hour, they will delouse your kid, should that situation occur. Although there's no epidemic, lice are common -- and disgusting -- enough that Hair Fairies, LouseCalls and other delousing salons are raking in the bucks by raking through your kid's hair.
Throw in school policies that remove children from the classroom, and manual lice removal becomes a burgeoning business. As Richard Pollack, a Harvard University public health entomologist, puts it:
They seem to be growing like the McDonald's franchise.
It's a lousy job, but better them than you.
Lice salons: lousy idea or necessity? [Baltimore Sun]
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