I'm riding along and this huge bug decides to kamikaze right into my face. Actually it resoundingly hit a front tooth. I was surprised & aghast, and I sure didn't want to swallow or inhale the damn thing. Somehow I managed to grasp the li'l bugger between my lips like a cigarette, draw a quick breath, and expel it like a very large watermelon seed -- Phfffooooo! The whole process was very expiditious. I felt a little sting in my upper lip but it quickly subsided. I pulled over to check in my mirror to see if there was a bee stinger embedded in there, but there wasn't. It must've been a yellowjacket; I seem to have a partial immunity to those things, and I guess it didn't get a full chance to get me good. I can still feel it, but it doesn't hurt.
Stoopid bugs.
Nevertheless, I hope my wee nemesis survived the encounter as well as I did. I think it probably did. And I'm glad it didn't fly up my cutoffs instead.
cheers, Tom
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I'm riding along and this huge bug decides to kamikaze right into my face. Actually it resoundingly hit a front tooth. I was surprised & aghast, and I sure didn't want to swallow or inhale the damn thing. Somehow I managed to grasp the li'l bugger between my lips like a cigarette, draw a quick breath, and expel it like a very large watermelon seed -- Phfffooooo! The whole process was very expiditious. I felt a little sting in my upper lip but it quickly subsided. I pulled over to check in my mirror to see if there was a bee stinger embedded in there, but there wasn't. It must've been a yellowjacket; I seem to have a partial immunity to those things, and I guess it didn't get a full chance to get me good. I can still feel it, but it doesn't hurt.
Stoopid bugs.
Nevertheless, I hope my wee nemesis survived the encounter as well as I did. I think it probably did. And I'm glad it didn't fly up my cutoffs instead.
At Sat, 09 Jul 2005 05:50:21 GMT, message <[email hidden]> was posted by "Bill Sornson" <[email hidden]>, including some, all or none of the following:
I'm riding along and this huge bug decides to kamikaze right into my face. Actually it resoundingly hit a front tooth. I was surprised & aghast, and I sure didn't want to swallow or inhale the damn thing. Somehow I managed to grasp the li'l bugger between my lips like a cigarette, draw a quick breath, and expel it like a very large watermelon seed -- Phfffooooo! The whole process was very expiditious. I felt a little sting in my upper lip but it quickly subsided. I pulled over to check in my mirror to see if there was a bee stinger embedded in there, but there wasn't. It must've been a yellowjacket; I seem to have a partial immunity to those things, and I guess it didn't get a full chance to get me good. I can still feel it, but it doesn't hurt.
"Arthur Harris" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
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Tom Keats said:
I'm riding along and this huge bug decides to kamikaze right into my face. Actually it resoundingly hit a front tooth. I was surprised & aghast, and I sure didn't want to swallow or inhale the damn thing. Somehow I managed to grasp the li'l bugger between my lips like a cigarette, draw a quick breath, and expel it like a very large watermelon seed -- Phfffooooo! The whole process was very expiditious. I felt a little sting in my upper lip but it quickly subsided. I pulled over to check in my mirror to see if there was a bee stinger embedded in there, but there wasn't. It must've been a yellowjacket; I seem to have a partial immunity to those things, and I guess it didn't get a full chance to get me good. I can still feel it, but it doesn't hurt.
Same exact thing happened to me last Sunday.
That yellow jacket is having a REAL bad week - almost getting swallowed by two crazy cyclists.
I almost did. I hope the bug was similarly disgusted about being soaked in people slobber. Today I can still feel a little pinprick-like sensation where he got me.
It was one of those situations where you can see the willful deliberateness in the bug's trajectory. He definitely /wanted/ to fly into me for some reason. Maybe in a previous life he was a bike-hating car driver.
cheers, Tom
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I'm riding along and this huge bug decides to kamikaze right into my face. Actually it resoundingly hit a front tooth. I was surprised & aghast, and I sure didn't want to swallow or inhale the damn thing. Somehow I managed to grasp the li'l bugger between my lips like a cigarette, draw a quick breath, and expel it like a very large watermelon seed -- Phfffooooo! The whole process was very expiditious. I felt a little sting in my upper lip but it quickly subsided. I pulled over to check in my mirror to see if there was a bee stinger embedded in there, but there wasn't. It must've been a yellowjacket; I seem to have a partial immunity to those things, and I guess it didn't get a full chance to get me good. I can still feel it, but it doesn't hurt.
Same exact thing happened to me last Sunday.
Art Harris
Once my sister got hit in the eye by a bee, it didn't sting but it was about the size of a baseball and her eye got all red. A friend of mine had a bee go up his nose, not all the way- he blew it out. EVERYTHING GOES UP HIS NOSE.... lol.
I was climbing a steep hill and sucking air in hard. I brushed against a Scot's Broom bush and a hundred honeybees flushed out. I sucked one right down and there was no chance to spit it out. Everything seemed fine for a couple of minutes. Then, I began to feel something stuck in my throat. I thought that the bee had crawled back up and I tried to hack it up with no success. It got larger and more troublesome and I finally realized that the bee had stung me in the throat, on the way down. That insect was the last solid food I had for two days. I calculated its nutritive value at about 6 calories. My throat swelled so much, I could only swallow sips of water. I'm normally only slightly reactive to stinging and biting bugs. I guess tender internal parts aren't so resistant. Lucky it didn't go into my windpipe before it carried out its final deed.
Once my sister got hit in the eye by a bee, it didn't sting but it was about the size of a baseball and her eye got all red. A friend of mine had a bee go up his nose, not all the way- he blew it out. EVERYTHING GOES UP HIS NOSE.... lol.
Better than having stuff come out his nose :-)
Speaking of which, I guess it's not very sociable to make people laugh when they're eating chow mein.
cheers, Tom
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"Steve McDonald" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
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...the bee had stung me in the throat, on the way down. That insect was the last solid
food I had for
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two days. .... My throat swelled so much, I could only swallow sips of water.
I'm
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normally only slightly reactive to stinging and biting bugs.
I guess
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tender internal parts aren't so resistant.
My sympathy. I had a similar experience with a ground bee a few years ago. I'm not reactive either, but when it stung me inside the mouth I had a lot of swelling. I was luckier than you -- the swelling didn't block me from eating because of where I was stung.
Nevertheless, I hope my wee nemesis survived the encounter as well as I did. I think it probably did. And I'm glad it didn't fly up my cutoffs instead.
Stoopid bug? Your stoopid yellow jacket was smart enough to go back a week in time and sting me just above my left eye last Sunday, causing it to swell up and virtually close completely (yellow jackets & I don't get along very well; it's not an allergic reaction per se, but the swelling is pretty darned impressive, whether it's on my eye, arm or tail end). Grrrr. Sorry I can't feel quite as charitable as you towards the little buggers. A regular old bee isn't much different for me than a mosquito bike, but a yellow jacket is not something I enjoy crossing paths with.
"Tom Keats" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
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I'm riding along and this huge bug decides to kamikaze right into my face. Actually it resoundingly hit a front tooth. I was surprised & aghast, and I sure didn't want to swallow or inhale the damn thing. Somehow I managed to grasp the li'l bugger between my lips like a cigarette, draw a quick breath, and expel it like a very large watermelon seed -- Phfffooooo! The whole process was very expiditious. I felt a little sting in my upper lip but it quickly subsided. I pulled over to check in my mirror to see if there was a bee stinger embedded in there, but there wasn't. It must've been a yellowjacket; I seem to have a partial immunity to those things, and I guess it didn't get a full chance to get me good. I can still feel it, but it doesn't hurt.
Stoopid bugs.
Nevertheless, I hope my wee nemesis survived the encounter as well as I did. I think it probably did. And I'm glad it didn't fly up my cutoffs instead.
cheers, Tom
-- -- Nothing is safe from me. Above address is just a spam midden. I'm really at: tkeats [curlicue] vcn [point] bc [point] ca
Nevertheless, I hope my wee nemesis survived the encounter as well as I did. I think it probably did. And I'm glad it didn't fly up my cutoffs instead.
Stoopid bug? Your stoopid yellow jacket was smart enough to go back a week in time and sting me just above my left eye last Sunday
after that, on thursday, it stung me on the right thigh, when I brushed the little [censored] off, it got me again. Swelling's minimal, but hard, and ohhhh, the damn itching.
Hurt like a motha when it got me too, like being bitten by a terrier. LOL
Nevertheless, I hope my wee nemesis survived the encounter as well as I did. I think it probably did. And I'm glad it didn't fly up my cutoffs instead.
Stoopid bug? Your stoopid yellow jacket was smart enough to go back a week in time and sting me just above my left eye last Sunday
after that, on thursday, it stung me on the right thigh, when I brushed the little [censored] off, it got me again. Swelling's minimal, but hard, and ohhhh, the damn itching.
Hurt like a motha when it got me too,
I'be been stung on the lips several times. I don't mind... it makes me look like agelina jolie and then i feel very hott.
