Wasps! - I could have killed someone!!!!
Discussion
I remember when I was about 12 or 13 leaving the house and putting my hand on the round brass door knob and feeling something odd under my hand, pulled away quickly and saw a half crushed wasp fall to the floor. It was writhing on the floor in its final death throes so I finished it off by stamping on it, didn't get stung, felt like a hero for the rest of the day.
SpudLink said:
. I think the main reason I passed is because I was too traumatised to be nervous.
Good point. At the outset of your tale I was thinking there was no way I would have been able to take the test after that. I was nervous enough for my DAS as it was.But you're right, if my test had been immediately before my test I would have been equally traumatised and the trauma of the test was nothing compared with the wasp ordeal
Uncle John said:
Had one go through the vent in my helmet whilst cycling at about 20 mph, cue slamming of brakes, chucking bike, chucking helmet. Little b'strd got me 4 times right on the bonce.
This year they seem to have had a revival, loads around. The last few years there's been hardly any.
Had exactly the same last year except it was a bee, felt like someone was taking a cheesegrater to my head for the rest of the rideThis year they seem to have had a revival, loads around. The last few years there's been hardly any.
I've been stung twice in my life, both of which were within a week of each other according to my dear old mum. Once on the cheek, once on the neck. I was 6 or 7.
I've never been stung since - so to me, I remember a Wasp sting as the worst pain in the world. I've broken bones, been punched in the face a few times, and even had a sneezing fit when I had broken ribs. However, as irrational as it may be, I'd sooner feel any of those again than find out what a wasp sting feels like, such is the psychological trauma
In real terms, how painful is it? I think, if I was to be stung now, I'd get over the fear. But until that day comes, I won't stick around if a Wasp decides to add me to its list of things to f
k up that day.
Useful things though, they do act as natures pest control. Still hate the bds.
I've never been stung since - so to me, I remember a Wasp sting as the worst pain in the world. I've broken bones, been punched in the face a few times, and even had a sneezing fit when I had broken ribs. However, as irrational as it may be, I'd sooner feel any of those again than find out what a wasp sting feels like, such is the psychological trauma
In real terms, how painful is it? I think, if I was to be stung now, I'd get over the fear. But until that day comes, I won't stick around if a Wasp decides to add me to its list of things to f
k up that day. Useful things though, they do act as natures pest control. Still hate the b
ds. 
As a kid we were playing outdoors in a friend's garden and I remember shuffling down a slope at the end into a field - and disturbing a wasps nest in the slope. Ended up with a sting in my ear - and the little bugger stuck in my ear as of course one's natural instinct when stung in the ear is to put your hand up against your ear! I remember it hurting a lot but nothing worse.
A few years back we found lots of wasps hovering around an exterior wall to my studio in the garage - they were nesting in there - getting in and our through the airbrick. Off to B & Q for a can of wasp foam I go... I don't tend to slaughter insects as a rule but wasps I have no problem killing. What is the point of them?! Nasty little sods.
A few years back we found lots of wasps hovering around an exterior wall to my studio in the garage - they were nesting in there - getting in and our through the airbrick. Off to B & Q for a can of wasp foam I go... I don't tend to slaughter insects as a rule but wasps I have no problem killing. What is the point of them?! Nasty little sods.
When i was 14, my dad asked me to help clear out the shed. Being methodical, i moved stuff from one end of the shed to the other effectively barricading myself in.
At the back of the shed against an old tea chest was a pair of curtains. I grabbed a corner and gave them a good tug, only to discover that they were now home to thousands of pissed off wasps that weren't too happy about my unplanned eviction. So there's me, in shorts / t shirts trapped in the shed at the mercy of a swarm of vengeful Jaspers.
My dad rescued me in true 'action man' style, by pretty much ripping open the side of the shed, also getting stung in the process.
Over 200 stings on my body with another 50 or so on my head. Being that my whole body went numb, i can't even say it was necessarily painful!
At the back of the shed against an old tea chest was a pair of curtains. I grabbed a corner and gave them a good tug, only to discover that they were now home to thousands of pissed off wasps that weren't too happy about my unplanned eviction. So there's me, in shorts / t shirts trapped in the shed at the mercy of a swarm of vengeful Jaspers.
My dad rescued me in true 'action man' style, by pretty much ripping open the side of the shed, also getting stung in the process.
Over 200 stings on my body with another 50 or so on my head. Being that my whole body went numb, i can't even say it was necessarily painful!
Piers_K said:
An friend of mine was strimming the banks of the Thames a few springs ago, clearing the paths and swims getting ready for the fishing season. Unbeknown to him hidden in the long grass was a wasps nest, which he cut open with the strimmer, and then he stepped on it...
Cue a swarm of mental wasps, him running, his arms going like a windmill in a gale whilst trying to swat wasps and strip of his clothes at the same time and then finally him jumping into the river.
A rushed trip to hospital later and the nurse had counted 68 stings, 8 of which were on his ball sack.
On his ball sack. His ball sack. Not one sting. Eight stings. On his ball sack. Where his balls are.Cue a swarm of mental wasps, him running, his arms going like a windmill in a gale whilst trying to swat wasps and strip of his clothes at the same time and then finally him jumping into the river.
A rushed trip to hospital later and the nurse had counted 68 stings, 8 of which were on his ball sack.
littlebasher said:
When i was 14, my dad asked me to help clear out the shed. Being methodical, i moved stuff from one end of the shed to the other effectively barricading myself in.
At the back of the shed against an old tea chest was a pair of curtains. I grabbed a corner and gave them a good tug, only to discover that they were now home to thousands of pissed off wasps that weren't too happy about my unplanned eviction. So there's me, in shorts / t shirts trapped in the shed at the mercy of a swarm of vengeful Jaspers.
My dad rescued me in true 'action man' style, by pretty much ripping open the side of the shed, also getting stung in the process.
Over 200 stings on my body with another 50 or so on my head. Being that my whole body went numb, i can't even say it was necessarily painful!
You were unlucky, and very lucky - that would kill some people. At the back of the shed against an old tea chest was a pair of curtains. I grabbed a corner and gave them a good tug, only to discover that they were now home to thousands of pissed off wasps that weren't too happy about my unplanned eviction. So there's me, in shorts / t shirts trapped in the shed at the mercy of a swarm of vengeful Jaspers.
My dad rescued me in true 'action man' style, by pretty much ripping open the side of the shed, also getting stung in the process.
Over 200 stings on my body with another 50 or so on my head. Being that my whole body went numb, i can't even say it was necessarily painful!
blindswelledrat said:
SpudLink said:
. I think the main reason I passed is because I was too traumatised to be nervous.
Good point. At the outset of your tale I was thinking there was no way I would have been able to take the test after that. I was nervous enough for my DAS as it was.But you're right, if my test had been immediately before my test I would have been equally traumatised and the trauma of the test was nothing compared with the wasp ordeal
BSW in turmoil? Trauma? ... IT didn't happen, never, and won't ever happen.
(Did you ummm make that up a bit?)
Gassing Station | The Lounge | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff