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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Wednesday, October 08, 2008 - 11:48 am
I've been stung a billion times! Last summer I was stung in the same leg 3 times when I was pulling some weeds out. I said, "ow, ow,ow!" and then my nephew and I watched the swelling. He said I was crazy brave to just say ow ow ow, and he knew I'd been stung three times, lol.
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Beekindpleez
Member
07-18-2006
| Wednesday, October 08, 2008 - 12:10 pm
I have an interesting story about bees. My veggie garden is up on a hill and I was up there tending to it one day. I kept hearing a loud roaring sound and thought there must have been a group of motorcycles riding along a winding road not too far from my house. The roar kept going and going and I was thinking there must have been at least a hundred motorcycles. Then I saw a dark mass...like a cloud. Suddendly thousands and thousands of bees were coming right at me! I ran as fast as I could down the hill to the house and yelled for everyone to close all the windows and fireplace openings. These bees completely surrounded our house. I mean, it looked DARK out, there were so many of them. And the sound of their buzzing was deafening!! Then they all began to gather in a tree just outside my back door. They grouped up there, dripping from a branch. I would say the size of the "ball of bees" they made was about the size of one of those giant blow-up beach balls. It was HUGE. We called vector control (or something) and they told us they were transient bees, looking for a new home. We watched them as they sent groups out to different trees and it was so weird. A group of bees about the size of a football would go out, then come back. This went on for about two hours. And then, a group came back, and all those bees went flying off together to a new home they found somewhere. But in all that, we never once got stung. I did sit on a bee that was on my car seat one morning while taking my boys to school. DH had to get the stinger out for me. lol

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Ginger1218
Member
08-31-2001
| Wednesday, October 08, 2008 - 12:11 pm
When I was a very small child, a bee stung me under my arm. About 20 years ago, I was in California, in a shopping center in Malibu and a huge bee flew and landed on the inside of my glass lens. I always knew that if you stay absolutely still the bee will never sting. So, I froze with my eyes half closed LOL, for 20 minutes the damn bee hopped back and forth from my eyelid to the glass lens. My friends stood there and laughed hysterically. Finally some man came over and ripped my glasses off my face and the bee flew away. Now I laugh at it, but I was so freaked out that day.
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Denecee
Member
09-05-2002
| Wednesday, October 08, 2008 - 12:31 pm
Beekind, wow! That must have been amazing to see!
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Wednesday, October 08, 2008 - 12:34 pm
Beeky, my hand to my heart - I swear I would have had a heart-attack and died right there on the spot. You are my hero of the day!
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Emeraldfire
Member
03-05-2003
| Wednesday, October 08, 2008 - 12:56 pm
Beekind, I agree with Mameblanche I would have dropped dead too had I seen such a sight! I have been stung by both and I'm allergic. You know those big bumble bees that everyone says are harmless that just sort of lazily fly around? One landed on my ex and he stood still and it stung him, not with a stinger but by rubbing on him. He went to get gas a few hours later and another flew up out of nowhere and stung him. He evidently attracted it by the pheromones the first bee left! I never knew that they would do that, so now I watch for them. I'm glad I learned the lesson through my ex.
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, October 08, 2008 - 1:03 pm
Bee, that would have completely freaked me out. Summer or two ago I had a wasp fly down my shirt. I screeched and started jerking my shirt, terrible reaction I know, lol. Ended up stung and that sucker hurt! Not too long after that I got in the car, rolled the windows down and was pulling out of the driveway when another flew in the car. I damn near crashed into a pole trying to get it out of my car.
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Mak1
Member
08-12-2002
| Wednesday, October 08, 2008 - 5:21 pm
Aaacckkkk, what scary stories!! MameB, my mother taught me the same thing about a statue never getting stung. In some of the stories above, though, I don't think I could have followed that advice. Panic might have won out over common sense.
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Grumpy
Member
02-08-2004
| Wednesday, October 08, 2008 - 8:27 pm
Bee, OMG!!! I woulda freaked!! Great story!
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Oldtex
Member
03-06-2006
| Wednesday, October 08, 2008 - 8:40 pm
Beekind - Wow! Glad to hear that no one got stung. That must have been an amazing site to see. I feel you are very lucky to be able to witness one of "Mother Natures' wonders. When I was about 8-10 yrs old, we lived next door to a man that raised honey bees. Of course, every now and then, a few would buzz into our play area. I remember getting stung once back then. But several times as an adult. I just can not be still and my natural instinct is to try and shooo them away.
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Skootz
Member
07-23-2003
| Thursday, October 09, 2008 - 4:48 am
I ended up with a pair of pants on that had a wasp in it and I was stung 6-7 times on my right hip. I was getting this sharp pains as I was walking down the stairs...went to the washroom and checked and there was a wasp in there. Thank God I am not allergic
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Thursday, October 09, 2008 - 6:31 am
Skootz, thank gawd more that the wasp stung your hip and not your <ahem> bits!

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Grumpy
Member
02-08-2004
| Sunday, October 12, 2008 - 10:21 am
"Bits"? That is a new name, cute, Huk. Have you ever... As a child or adult eaten Play Dough and/or Elmers Glue?
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Texasdeb
Member
05-23-2003
| Sunday, October 12, 2008 - 12:59 pm
as a child: I ate that homemade type of play dough but not the store bought kind. I ate paste but never glue. as an adult: I don't eat anything that's not specified as "food"
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Grumpy
Member
02-08-2004
| Monday, October 13, 2008 - 12:47 pm
I remember eating both. Playdough tasted really salty, I remember. Glue was.... glue. I'm thinking no one but Texasdeb, or myself, wants to admit to eating glue or playdough?
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Monday, October 13, 2008 - 12:54 pm
I don't remember eating either but I did eat chalk.
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Jagger
Member
08-07-2002
| Monday, October 13, 2008 - 1:05 pm
I ate both as a kid, but than again when I was a kid I'd eat most anything including worms and bugs.
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Grumpy
Member
02-08-2004
| Monday, October 13, 2008 - 1:25 pm
Mamie, Eww. Chalk. What did chalk taste like? Well, Jagger, What kind of bugs? I never ate a worm or bugs. I did try dirt. My uncle ate a chocolate covered grasshopper on a dare as a kid. I almost ate a live fish out of our tank, but bock bocked out.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Monday, October 13, 2008 - 1:27 pm
I think it tasted like chalk. LOL
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Grumpy
Member
02-08-2004
| Monday, October 13, 2008 - 1:33 pm
Oh, I would have never guessed. LOL I remember eating a big brown crayon thinking it would taste like chocolate...
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Bookworm
Member
12-18-2001
| Monday, October 13, 2008 - 8:06 pm
playdough yes glue yes both as a child
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Grumpy
Member
02-08-2004
| Monday, October 13, 2008 - 9:09 pm
Have you ever... Had a kitty eat at your hair? While awake or awaken you doing so?
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Pamplemousse
Member
09-28-2003
| Monday, October 13, 2008 - 9:17 pm
yes. my Shadow has been gone two years now but when she was a baby she'd grab a mouthful of my hair and "milk tread" at my neck when i was trying to sleep at night. she'd purr then fall asleep
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Bookworm
Member
12-18-2001
| Tuesday, October 14, 2008 - 7:46 pm
yes
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Grumpy
Member
02-08-2004
| Sunday, October 19, 2008 - 12:31 pm
Have you ever... Had a puppy or kitty take food right out of your hand and go eat it? My long past Warshawsky had taken a fresh made sandwich right out of my hand and ate it. I had to go make me another sandwich. LOL
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