Not to belittle your advice, which is probably very good advice. But it's kinda weird when going outside requires a response protocol like an ABC attack just happened.

Tho you have a point, ticks get in the unlikeliest places: One time I had a tick on the inside of my wrist, right under the watch I was wearing. Which wasn't a good place for the tick, it was crushed dead between the wrist/my watch and simply fell off after I took off the watch.