Everything bites me.
Constantly.
Things which aren't known for biting will automatically take one look at me and latch on... Animals that don't have mouths will try to crash into me and injure me. My hands and arms when looked at under a blacklight are nothing but solid patches of very very tiny scars with a few larger ones cutting through the mess of little ones.
The animal bite which I had bleed the most is on my right arm, just inside and below my elbow... I was working pet-retail during December... busy store, multiple employees, everyone running around and helping as many people as they could at any given point... It was the kind of situation where someone working would get stuck with four or five people no matter where they were, customers were waiting for cages to be unlocked and fish to be scooped.
I got hit up by a crowd of people demanding hamsters, rabbits and guinea pigs and was essentially helping them all at once, answering questions as they were shouted and making a mental list of what to box up prior to taking the entire crowd to go pick out supplies... I crouched down underneath the cabinet where the small animal boxes were kept and had to lean under a good ways to open a few bundles with my pocket knife... I had my right hand gripping the cabinet door and was inside it pretty much up to my waist.
I feel a small pinch on my arm, no massive pain, just a pinch. I assume I had either given myself a splinter or been bitten by one of the animals which was loose in the store (some intentional, some not), so I continue what I was doing until I had the bixes of the appropriate sizes in a flat stack and then I pull myself out and look down at my arm to see if it was a tokay or a splinter and find...
... A toddler. I'm not real good with the age of little kids until they're old enough to be human but he couldn't have been more than two or three, maybe four on the outside but I kind of doubt it. He had his lips curled back and he was chewing on my arm with his front teeth, pinching the skin between them. He had already broken skin (and a small vein) and there was blood GUSHING down his chin, covering his overalls and collecting in a dinner plate sized puddle on the floor at his feet.
I stared at him. He stared back. I stared at him. He ground his teeth together, releasing a new wave of my blood onto his chin. Had it been someone's animal... a dog or cat or ferret or... anything really, I could have simply removed it but people get funny when their kids are concerned and I really didn't want to end up being sued for smacking the little monster in it's head so I waited and looked around a bit for whoever owned it, still crouched down on one knee with him chewing.
His mother was all of maybe three feet away, talking on her cell phone and completely oblivious to what the kid was doing as she chattered away nonstop. I had to clear my throat a few times before she glanced down and saw her rabid offspring trying it's best to chew straight down to the bone... She cocked her head to the side and held the cell phone to her ear with her shoulder, STILL TALKING, bent down and grabbed the kid under his arms, pulling him away. Except he didn't let go, so she's holding him horizontaly in the air and TUGGING to get him off... He doesn't actually stop biting, but the chunk of skin he was working on finally ripped loose and he was pulled away. As I grab a roll of paper towels and shove them onto my bleeding arm, she puts the kid down and quickly leaves the store, still on the phone, before I can even ask her if her kid has had it's shots and if the local animal control office has a file on him.
It was too busy for me to leave, being the season that it was and because I was responsible for sales numbers and didn't even usually work out on the floor, so I stayed at work, taking only a fifteen minute break to give myself dental floss stitches with my left hand while bleeding all over my office.
A lot of the herp bites hurt more, a few resulted in larger scars but that one bled the most... I'm a wirey guy and all the veins in my arm are right under the skin... he hooked one of the smaller but still visible ones good and laid it wide open.
