Originally posted by: radioouman
I was a boy scout but never got it. I've walked through it, pulled it, and still never got it.
I guess we are immune to it. It's about the only plant I'm not allergic to! I can't cut grass, or be around xmas trees, and just brushing up against any type of pine needles makes big welts on my hands and after a while, I don't feel too good.
We have a guy that cuts our grass and I was outside tearing this vine stuff off my TV tower, and he comes up and says, "Hey! That's poison Ivy!!" I had been tearing the stuff off the back of the house for almost 23 years, and it never did anything to me. I tell him I have no problems with it, and he starts tearing it loose from around the back door, thinking it must be ok.
The next day, I see him at the grocery store and he has Poison Ivy. LOL.
No wonder I was the only one of the three of us that didn't get it riding mini bikes in the state forest when we were kids. My friends were totally miderable. I burned the crap out of my leg the next week. I would have rather had PI. No more shorts for me when riding.