“They go on the towel!”
“Nobody tells you that.”
And it involves, ahem, pubic lice.
Kristin Davis as Charlotte in a very itchy episode of ‘Sex and the City’.Credit:HBO
Davis asked Bushnell, referring to the season 2 episode “Twenty-Something Girls vs. Thirty-Something Women?”
“But not the part about Charlotte getting the crabs.”
“Okay, okay,” Davis said, thinking the story was about to move on.
Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, and Cynthia Nixon in the ‘Sex and the City’ episode ‘Twenty-Something Girls Vs. Thirty-Something Women’.HBO/courtesy Everett Collection
“I had this, whatever, crazy roommate,” the author recalled.
“And she was always having sex.
And she got crabs, and we shared an apartment.
And guess what?”
“Did you get crabs from your roommate?”
Davis asked, anticipating where this was headed.
Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, and Cynthia Nixon in the ‘Sex and the City’ episode ‘Twenty-Something Girls Vs. Thirty-Something Women’.HBO/courtesy Everett Collection
“I did,” Bushnell confessed.
“Oh, that’sbad!”
“Because they go on the towel!”
Candace Bushnell during a happier moment.Ron Galella Collection via Getty
“Nobody tells you that.”
Ron Galella Collection via Getty
“No one does,” Davis agreed.
“Listen, people.
Is some important information.”
“I cant believe I just said that.
(Hi Candace!)
And she’s right.
According to theMayo Clinicyou can get public lice, commonly known as crabs, from a towel.
Don’t ask how we know this.
