EWWWWWW! TICKS! I pull a few off of me almost once a week in high tick season. Considering I see them all the time due to work (I fdo alot of bushwhacking), doesn't mean I get used to them. I've only had one actually dig in.

One year, my coworkers and I had a competition to see who could accumulate the most ticks. If we found a tick crawling on our body we could collect it and pin it to our cubicle walls in clear tape. Whoever collected the most ticks won a Sibley birding guide. It wasn't a contest I wanted to win. Kinda morbid huh? Biologists are just weird that way.