Things That Sting for $600 Alex

[Insider]

got any good sting stories before bed?

my grandmother told me to reach down and push the straw/grass away from granddad's headstone. wasp...finger...OUCH!

had a big ole bummmmmmmble bee chase me around fort stewart georgia. and i was out running verrrrry slowly. that sonofogun made me run so fast! but he didn't get me.

[testing123]

1. I was reading a book

As I turned the page I felt this hot burning pain that I had never felt before in my life and low and behold I had a yellow jacket on my thumb and his stinger was under my nail.

Ouch is not the word.

[Ellen Forradalom]

2. While walking one fine summer's evening in Kentucky

I ran my fingers through my hair and YEOWCH!

[lazarus]

3. at my grandma's house

Way down on the backside of the 40 acres. In the woods. Took a leak, hit the electric fence.

Well, not really a sting, more a jolt. Not something one forgets.

[bleedingheart]

7. my neighbor's hunting dog did that and it knocked the poor dog

unconscious...

[lazarus]

9. My reaction time

was superhuman, I can tell you. As best as I can tell, I didn't get a full contact with the main stream, it was a "passing glance", as it were.

[flamingyouth]

4. I had a huge hive of bald-faced hornets in my photinia this week

The exterminator was actually scared to death of them. I pointed to the hive and he shouted at me, "Get in the house, ma'am, and shut the door behind you!" Then I got to watch him as he sprayed it and ran screaming from a swarm of the things. The queen was huge - he did show that to me (thanks for sharing) :scared: Fortunately, no stings.

The worst personal experience was sitting on a bee while at a pool party in high school. I was humiliated beyond belief. :D

[Ready4Change]

5. Just yesterday.

I feel awful about this.

I was working in my yard and the little girl from across the street came over to talk, as she does now and then. As we chatted a bumblebee started flying around us. She was worried, but I told her that bumblebees don't sticg often, and only if you bother them.

I turned my back for a moment (still doing yardwork) and apparently the bee flew at her face and stung her right between the eyes.

Probably last time the poor girl will ever listen to me!

So weird, I can't ever recall seeing someone get stung by a bumblebee?

[Kali]

6. scorpions

evil bastards. When they get in your bed and sting you, you try to jump up but the whole time they are running down to the lowest point in the bed stinging you as they go. They don't die on the first like a bee and the sting is maddening - very electrical - like the destcription of the fence above. A zinging every time you move or touch where the stings are. That sure can ruin a nights sleep.

[No2W2004]

8. I've got a good wasp story

I helped my dad out for a year. He worked for a vynal siding co. and measured the houses to order material. So, I was walking with one end of the tape measure and had to duck behind a bush to get the correct measurement. When I started to stand back up, my head came in contact with a wasp nest. Next thing I know, my head feels like its on fire and my ears are filled with the sounds of angry buzzing. I tore through the bush and started rolling around on the ground. My dad thought I was possessed, or on drugs for a minute till he saw all the wasp around me.

Funny thing was, other than the welts, nothing happened as far as getting sick.

[TX-RAT]

10. Snake bite

My cousin and i were fishing on my uncles pond. When we were walking back to his house i stepped off the trail and on to 5 1/2 ft diamondback. He got me right above the left knee. 3 weeks and several shots of anti-venom.

[geniph]

11. I was weed-eating tall grass one time

and stupidly, was wearing shorts. I'd been getting hit in the legs all afternoon with twigs and small stones, so when I cut the yellowjacket nest in the grass in two, I didn't notice at first. My legs started to burn, and I glanced down to see that I was wearing yellowjacket socks. I got at least 50-100 stings. Thankfully, I don't react; I went into the house and put a baking soda paste on the stings and was fine. I don't wear shorts when using a weedeater any more.

I will say one thing for it, though - when other people are spazzing about a yellowjacket in the house or car, my reaction is pretty much, "whatever." One yellowjacket stinging is nothing compared to having 50 of them on you, all stinging as fast as they can. I'm now the designated "wasp-shooer" because I no longer have any fear of them.

My sister sat on a mud-dauber on the edge of her bathtub once, when she was getting ready for her bath - in other words, she sat on it with her naked underside, and got stung in some very sensitive places. Mud-daubers don't often sting, but holy hell, they hurt like a BITCH when they do. OW OW OW.

[Insider]

15. geniph is my hero

1st: 'yellowjacket socks'

2nd: 50-100?!?! you poor, POOR dear

3rd: one yellowjacket = 'whatever'

yup. hero. :D

[King Of Paperboys]

12. Riding my motorcycle

On a wide Boulevard, so I was going abot 40, 45mph. I was wearing sunglasses, and a bee managed to hit my face in such a way that it got UNDER my sunglasses and stung my eyelid. Somehow, I pulled to the side of the road without incident. My eye swelled up like Kirstie Alley after she left "Cheers." I was a hideous freak for a week.

[bigwillq]

13. "My eye swelled up like Kirstie Alley after she left "Cheers."

Funniest.Line.Ever.

[texas1928]

14. When I was a kid I pissed a bumble bee off so bad it hung out

on the screen door waiting on me. It would start buzzing anytime you went near the door. Never got me though, it got a face full of bug spray.