Wasps! - I could have killed someone!!!!
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Bobbing along a nice twisty country lane in the lorry today, sticky as you like so both windows open for maximum airflow (old truck, no aircon), right hand on the wheel, left hand stirring the big bowl of cog-soup.
Oncoming traffic, nice tight road and ARRGGGHHHHHHH, a big fat black and yellow doom-monger had planted itself on my steering forearm and was using its poxy sting to maintain a grip........OUCH!!!!
I was unable to let go of the wheel obviously, I just had to take it for what seemed like an eternity until I could get a straight bit of road and eject the striped little freak.
Blasted things.
Oncoming traffic, nice tight road and ARRGGGHHHHHHH, a big fat black and yellow doom-monger had planted itself on my steering forearm and was using its poxy sting to maintain a grip........OUCH!!!!
I was unable to let go of the wheel obviously, I just had to take it for what seemed like an eternity until I could get a straight bit of road and eject the striped little freak.
Blasted things.
Reminds me of when I was at primary school, at the end of playtime, when the whistle blew, you all had to stand still (ah, instilling discipline, remember that!).
As I'm stood motionless, a big m/f wasp lands on my hand and digs in for all it's worth - multiple times, and I just have to take it.
To top it all, when lined up, and marched in, and I tell the teacher, she says in an accusatory voice, "what did you do to annoy it"!
As I'm stood motionless, a big m/f wasp lands on my hand and digs in for all it's worth - multiple times, and I just have to take it.
To top it all, when lined up, and marched in, and I tell the teacher, she says in an accusatory voice, "what did you do to annoy it"!
I had one sting me on the edge of a nostril when I was a moped-riding teenager. I've never felt such pain and distress as I did that day!!! it felt like my nose had been severed and replaced with a lump of liquid Hiroshima! I jumped off my 'ped and literally jumped up and down at the side of the back lane, clutching my conk.
Stung at the top of the inside of my leg - adjacent to my three piece suite, so it could have been worse - my leg swelled up so badly my trousers wouldn't fit. In the darkest recesses of the wardrobe I found and old pair of Oxford bags that just about fitted and I tottered off to the doctor. I told him what happened and showed the extent of the swelling and he fell about laughing.
"Can you tell me what's funny?"
"You're allergic to wasp sting."
"And that's funny because...?"
"We get used to our bodies coping better with things. When you've had chicken pox, say, you're then immune to it. It's different with allergies. This time you were stung and your leg swelled up, next half your body will swell up, the next time your whole body will swell up and the next time - you'll die!!"
"Yes, I can see why that's so funny."
He wasn't a popular doctor but there was never a queue and you could always get in to see him at short notice.
"Can you tell me what's funny?"
"You're allergic to wasp sting."
"And that's funny because...?"
"We get used to our bodies coping better with things. When you've had chicken pox, say, you're then immune to it. It's different with allergies. This time you were stung and your leg swelled up, next half your body will swell up, the next time your whole body will swell up and the next time - you'll die!!"
"Yes, I can see why that's so funny."
He wasn't a popular doctor but there was never a queue and you could always get in to see him at short notice.
DickyC said:
Stung at the top of the inside of my leg - adjacent to my three piece suite, so it could have been worse - my leg swelled up so badly my trousers wouldn't fit. In the darkest recesses of the wardrobe I found and old pair of Oxford bags that just about fitted and I tottered off to the doctor. I told him what happened and showed the extent of the swelling and he fell about laughing.
"Can you tell me what's funny?"
"You're allergic to wasp sting."
"And that's funny because...?"
"We get used to our bodies coping better with things. When you've had chicken pox, say, you're then immune to it. It's different with allergies. This time you were stung and your leg swelled up, next half your body will swell up, the next time your whole body will swell up and the next time - you'll die!!"
"Yes, I can see why that's so funny."
He wasn't a popular doctor but there was never a queue and you could always get in to see him at short notice.
"Can you tell me what's funny?"
"You're allergic to wasp sting."
"And that's funny because...?"
"We get used to our bodies coping better with things. When you've had chicken pox, say, you're then immune to it. It's different with allergies. This time you were stung and your leg swelled up, next half your body will swell up, the next time your whole body will swell up and the next time - you'll die!!"
"Yes, I can see why that's so funny."
He wasn't a popular doctor but there was never a queue and you could always get in to see him at short notice.
12 year sol, Riding my 1980's Mongoose BMX down a step Road. Yeah maxed out at 20mph and bang, Wasp hits my open Mouth, stings me 3 times inside my mouth before I managed to stop and pull over. Only had a back brake then and that was a back pedal affair the skid was massssiiiivvveeee!
I hate wasps with a passion and they scare me hugely disproportionately to the mild pain of their sting.
I was once riding along on my motorbike with my visor open when one flew into my helmet and seemed to lodge itself between my temple and the helmet.
This was the worst thing that could ever happen to me and although the panic was rising fast, I had to force myself to remain calm as I was on a motorbike on a busy road.
So I casually indicated into a childrens playground, calmly turned in and then once I was through the gate all hell broke lose. I allowed panic to take over, jumped off the motorbike and let it fall to the ground, snatched my helmet off and threw it as far as I could before running in circles slapping away at my head. I must have looked utterly mental to all the mothers in the park, particularly the contrast between my forced calm entrance to the park followed by my loss of control
I was once riding along on my motorbike with my visor open when one flew into my helmet and seemed to lodge itself between my temple and the helmet.
This was the worst thing that could ever happen to me and although the panic was rising fast, I had to force myself to remain calm as I was on a motorbike on a busy road.
So I casually indicated into a childrens playground, calmly turned in and then once I was through the gate all hell broke lose. I allowed panic to take over, jumped off the motorbike and let it fall to the ground, snatched my helmet off and threw it as far as I could before running in circles slapping away at my head. I must have looked utterly mental to all the mothers in the park, particularly the contrast between my forced calm entrance to the park followed by my loss of control
I f
king hate wasps the vindictive little st rags!
They definintely come for you, they don't just mind their own business like bees. They turn up, decide you're in their space and that you must be dealt with without provocation from you.s.
When I was younger I got stung by a wasp right on the underside of my wrist where you take your pulse. That was agony, it was a huge wasp as well, possibly a queen. Its still the biggest wasp I have ever seen. And it lodged itself in my arm.
Been stung numerous times since, the worst being when I was cutting the hedge and disturbed an undetected nest. I had two of the buggers sting my right on the shin bone and they got stuck in there.
I'm sorry to anyone who thinks wasps are useful. They aren't. They'res.
More waspery.... We watched one hovering round our living room window, I thought it had gotten caught in the spiders web. Serves it right I thought. But then unperturbed by the web it simply broke free, and then hovered some more, seemingly deliberately trapping/freeing itelf in the web. Spidey eventually appears to see what he's caught and the wasp engages. After a brief tussle, the wasp actually flew off with the spider!! We were gobsmacked! Its deliberately tricked a spider into coming out of its wigwam thingy and then attacked it, picked it up and flew off with it!
king hate wasps the vindictive little st rags!They definintely come for you, they don't just mind their own business like bees. They turn up, decide you're in their space and that you must be dealt with without provocation from you.
s.When I was younger I got stung by a wasp right on the underside of my wrist where you take your pulse. That was agony, it was a huge wasp as well, possibly a queen. Its still the biggest wasp I have ever seen. And it lodged itself in my arm.
Been stung numerous times since, the worst being when I was cutting the hedge and disturbed an undetected nest. I had two of the buggers sting my right on the shin bone and they got stuck in there.
I'm sorry to anyone who thinks wasps are useful. They aren't. They're
s.More wasp
ery.... We watched one hovering round our living room window, I thought it had gotten caught in the spiders web. Serves it right I thought. But then unperturbed by the web it simply broke free, and then hovered some more, seemingly deliberately trapping/freeing itelf in the web. Spidey eventually appears to see what he's caught and the wasp engages. After a brief tussle, the wasp actually flew off with the spider!! We were gobsmacked! Its deliberately tricked a spider into coming out of its wigwam thingy and then attacked it, picked it up and flew off with it!Edited by Otispunkmeyer on Tuesday 4th August 09:23
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