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  • #31
    That's exactly what I keep trying to tell my allergic friend, but she will have none of it...she thinks by doing the "bee flail" they will go away. Sure, after you've pissed them off, and they sting you!

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    • #32
      Oh I dont fail, I freeze and SCREAAAAAAAMMMMMMMM ... maybe subconsiously I think I will deafen the bee to death?

      I have been known to run, and run and run and run and refuse to come back... I wish you could buy bee repellant!
      I wasnt put on this earth to make you feel like a man ~ Mary Bertone

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      • #33
        Quoth Tigress View Post
        Ye Gods, reading this thread makes my shoulder throb all over again. One night, I was talking on the phone to my boyfriend when I felt a sharp, shooting pain in my shoulder. I moved my arm experimentally, felt nothing, and wrote it off as a phantom pain that I sometimes get, especially after a hard tae kwon do class. A few minutes later, I felt it again! Then I felt something... crawling on my back.
        Your story sounds a whole lot like mine...

        I was outside one day, just hanging around and talking to a friend or a relative, I forget... when I feel this pain at the base of my neck... so I pass my hand wondering what the heck it was... feel nothing... then a few seconds later I feel another sharp pain in the middle of my back... and then I felt it crawl... so I reached down the back of my shirt, grabbed it, and threw it as hard as I could.

        I also got stung by wasps on two other occasion... and its always been twice in a row... first time it was two spots on my arm... second time was the back thing... third time I put my thumb directly on one after sitting down in a chair and grabbing the sides of it... it stung my thumb and then my arm. I remember shrieking that last time... my mom didn't get why I got so scared...

        I hate hate hate wasps... they're evil... never been stung by a bee though... although I remember one getting caught in my wool sweater when I was younger... I ran screaming in the house telling my mom to take off my sweater... I was so scared I was crying (I was 8 at the time). I still feel very uneasy around bees... even more so around wasps... I won't run around flailing my arms, but I try to slowly move away from the thing as it moves about the room... and find something to kill it, heh.
        A few definitions:
        Beauty: What a woman has when she looks the same after washing her face. (Hal Roach)
        Humanity: A work in progress. (Tennessee Williams).

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        • #34
          This is why I'm proud to be a draconic half-giant-half-halfling
          You have got to be a hoot at parties.

          I have lavendar growing all over my property and the honey bees LOVE IT! Never been stung, you ignore them, they are happy to ignore you.

          Wasps/Hornets/Yellow Jackets, I set out traps for those vicious little bastards.

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          • #35
            The only time I've gotten stung was because someone did it to me deliberately.

            I was playing with three other kids, standing next to a bush, we were throwing a ball back and forth to each other. One kid kept 'accidentally' hitting the bush with the ball, and asked me to get the ball, I got the ball out, and as I was doing it, I felt a sharp piercing pain on one finger from a wasp sting.

            What followed was more pain than I'd ever felt before in my life, followed by itching. The boy who did it to me thought it was funny I guess. I'm angry that he had no idea whether I was allergic or not and could have murdered me for a joke.

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            • #36
              Quoth Andara Bledin View Post
              *wave* Hiya from a fellow scaly.

              ^-.-^
              Heya!
              Quoth MadRocketScientist View Post
              You have got to be a hoot at parties
              I try, but only in small groups, and only after I warm up.

              On topic: I can't even remember the last time I saw a wasp. I've seen some bees while waiting for buses, but I'll just sit still and think really hard at it "GO AWAY" and then it goes
              Now, if I could just get mosquitos to do that too...
              Ba'al: I'm a god. Gods are all-knowing.

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              • #37
                Quoth Broomjockey View Post
                This is why I'm proud to be a draconic half-giant-half-halfling
                *scratches her head a moment* So, the halfling part is draconic? And, wouldn't that make you a quarterling?
                "I call murder on that!"

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                • #38
                  Quoth Rubystars View Post
                  I'm angry that he had no idea whether I was allergic or not and could have murdered me for a joke.
                  Kids are cruel and stupid (and yes, this is a fair generalization - young children have a mean streak a mile wide until they learn the impulse control that suppresses this behavior, especially when it comes to other kids). Impulse control and consequences are not concepts that MOST children learn quickly or willingly (especially without negative reinforcement). By the age of 10, most of them are getting there, but it's generally found to go along with the same timing as puberty. (lord, I knew those developmental psychology classes would be good for something).
                  GK/Kara/Jester fangirl.

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                  • #39
                    I'm one of those who's allergic to bee's. Like others have said, the trick is to not freak out. Just stay still and quiet and the bee will leave you alone. I know it can be hard, and at times I have to really force myself to do this. But knowing that if I freak/run/flail I will end up in the ER looking like the stay puff marshmallow man I do it.

                    A few years back at the condo, I came home and noticed that the vent pipe on the roof (it would have been the vent for the sink) was "Moving". Well I looked a little closer and realized that it was a swarm of bee's. And a utter shitload of them at that. The funniest thing was that I remember thinking....hmmm this sucks how do we fix this one.

                    I ended up calling the association manager and telling her the deal, thru in the "i'm allergic" card. Please note I didn't have to do this, and I was good friends with her. I was on the Board of directors and did all the printing for the management company also. She called a bee keeper and he came out the next day and took care of it. But it was the weirdest, freakiest, and coolest thing I think I've ever seen, about a bajillion bee's just squirming all over my roof and vent pipe. And no, none made it into the house, and I didn't get stung.

                    I've trained my kids to not freak out at the site of bee's. Now I just have to train them not to play with them after they find them
                    My Karma ran over your dogma.

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                    • #40
                      Quoth Juwl View Post
                      *scratches her head a moment* So, the halfling part is draconic? And, wouldn't that make you a quarterling?
                      If you really wanna know, PM as I'll not hijack this thread anymore.

                      And digilight, that does sound like a cool sight. I'd not mind seeing that, or something similar, like at a bee farmer's.
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                      • #41
                        IMHO, anybody who knows they are allergic ought to be carrying epi-pens. Now if I can just convince my stepdaughter of that...

                        The DH and I are not allergic to bees and such, but living out in the boonies, I try to keep Benadryl and Prednisone on hand. He tends to find scorpions rather frequently, though.
                        Everything will be ok in the end. If it's not ok, it's not the end.

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                        • #42
                          There's a honey farm that my mom visits that has two windows to watch the bees at work. Quite a cool sight and you can get some great grapes and honey while you're there.
                          The Grand Galactic Inquisitor hears all and sees all.

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