Leave it to Mother Goddam Nature to give me something to blog about. I walked in to my office building this morning, just minding my own business, when POW!! I got stung by a gigantic killer beewasp thing!! In the foyer!! Of my building!! On my hand!! This monster must have been about 4 feet wide, 8 feet high, 3 feet thick and other measurements as well! Oh, and it had a stinger about 2 feet long and sharp as, well, sharp as a bee's stinger, fer chrissake!
Actually, thinking back, I may have exaggerated the size of the killer beewasp thing a tad. But it still hurts like a goddammotherbitchbastard!!
And no, the irony of Buzz being stung by a bee has not escaped me. Haha. Very harrylarious!
(click to embiggen to actual size of attempted murderer)
Hope the rest of your day goes better... I'm alergic, so I know how terrifying it can be. Love you, Man!
Posted by: Beverly at July 28, 2005 08:35 AMGAH!! I would have run away screaming!!!
Damn, I'm guessing it might have been attracted to you because of your Buzz. ;-)
Posted by: Karen at July 28, 2005 08:40 AMI tell ya, the bastards are getting meaner. I've been the official, family spiders and stinging things killer (O.F.S.S.T.K. for short) for decades and never got stung until I killed some Yellowjackets at my mom's this summer. Bitch flew right at me in attack mode. (The Yellowjacket, not my mom, of course.) If the stinger is out, it will feel better in a few hours. If the stinger is in there, you need to find a pair of tweezers and someone who likes to pick at things. Good luck trooper!
Posted by: Nanc' at July 28, 2005 09:16 AMWell it can only go up from there. Put some ice on it. You will live unless of course you are allergic, then you should seek medical attention as fast as you can.
Posted by: Tom at July 28, 2005 09:42 AMOUCH!!
Posted by: keith721 at July 28, 2005 09:54 AMBeing stung in the foyer really hurts! My advice after being stung in your foyer is to gently try and scraype the stinger out if there is one (never pull with tweezers - it squeezes more venom into you). If the stinger is firmly lodged in your foyer, just forget about it because it will fester out on its own. Apply a paste of meat tenderizer and water several times a day for the first 24 hours at the most, and cold compresses/ice packs. And hydrocortisone cream also.
Hope your foyer feels better soon! ;)
(Some of that was real nursing advice, by the way)
And the first time I tried to submit this comment it was rejected because "scraype" had the word "raype" in it. Without the Y
Posted by: Drunken Lagomorph at July 28, 2005 10:20 AMSorry for you pain.
I didn't even think about the irony, but now, it's just that much funnier. ..I mean, sorry about the pain.
Posted by: huy at July 28, 2005 10:20 AMI'm sorry!!!! I know I would run around screaming like a banshee.
I hope you feel better now.
Posted by: Meeta at July 28, 2005 10:47 AMumm... so where is ones foyer?
if it makes you feel any better, my cats killed a wasp in the house last night. well, "played with it to death" would be a more accurate description. no wounds or casualties occured, except to the wasp, of course.
Posted by: P at July 28, 2005 11:15 AMThe Arachnid Warriors have alerted the Gigantic Mutant Beewasp Warriors to your plight. They will be in your area and hopefully eradicate the problem so that this never happens again.
Posted by: Broomhilda at July 28, 2005 11:50 AMBUZZ BITE
Posted by: MIKE at July 28, 2005 11:58 AMBUZZ STING
Posted by: MIKE at July 28, 2005 11:59 AMBUZZ MARK
Posted by: MIKE at July 28, 2005 12:00 PMBad omen. I hope you went straight home and back to bed. It would be the safest thing to do.
Posted by: Mamacita at July 28, 2005 12:04 PMworkers' comp! you could sue for millions!
Posted by: geeky at July 28, 2005 12:08 PMBUZZ KILL
Posted by: MIKE at July 28, 2005 01:12 PMoh jeez. suck it up. be a marine!
Posted by: tj at July 28, 2005 01:28 PMOH! The Humanity!
Posted by: JJJJB at July 28, 2005 01:48 PMOne of my readers has suggested it could have been an assasination attempt. Call security!
Posted by: Genuine at July 28, 2005 01:58 PMMaybe you could get a movie deal out of this. "The BeeWasp that Ate Manhatten (in the foyer)"
Posted by: buffi at July 28, 2005 02:42 PMI got stung by a bee in my head last weekend when I put on my baseball hat, I didn't know he was wearing it first!
I'm happy that you didn't lose your irony, because how will you be able to iron your clothes?
I hope you feel better, Buzz, and that you don't get stung again by that Beewasp thing that stung you, because that's not good!
Posted by: Rockchild at July 28, 2005 03:04 PM8 feet wide it was, if it was an inch! I provided first aid to our wounded hero, Buzz.
Posted by: Az at July 28, 2005 03:38 PMIn the words of Laurie on Noggin:
Buzz buzz buzz bu-buzz buzz buuuuuzz buzz buzz.
Posted by: Sleeping Mommy at July 28, 2005 04:42 PM"goddammotherbitchbastard"
Reminds me of my favorite line from Nothing to Lose with Tim Robbins and Martin Lawrence. You know, when they're holdin gup the store?
"Freeze, suckerbitch!"
White men most assuredly CAN cuss...
If you haven't seen it, you should. If for nothing else than this line.
Posted by: Amy at July 28, 2005 05:03 PMI recommend lots of a colorless volatile flammable liquid, C2H5OH, synthesized or obtained by fermentation of sugars and starches and used in intoxicating beverages. Do enough alcohol (single malt scotch, perhaps ?) to make you forget about your problem.
Get buzzed
to forget
you got buzzed
by that bee, Buzz.
WOW, that thing looks very very scarey! Glad you survived. I pray your sting heals fast.
Poor Buzz.
you got the buzz sucked right outta ya, didn't you?
Posted by: zee at July 28, 2005 10:42 PMDang Buzz! Sorry to hear about your near-death experience!
One of those very same sommvabitches almost got ME last week... in my CAR (first thing I could think of after screaming my head off and jumping a foot backwards and almost landing on the gearshift -hush you!-(while being seated, mind you!Yes, I'm talented that way!) was WTF? How did THAT get in here? It was a close call!
And for Amy above, thanks for reminding me of that line, I'd forgotten it!
Take care Buzz. Glad you seem not to be allergic or anything!
Damn, half my comment didn't post. Weird.
Anyways, I was just sayin' I had an experience with a paper wasp about a month ago that wasn't pretty.
And that's not a paper wasp. If it's a bee, you can rest assured little bastard died shortly after getting you. A bee stings, and the stinger comes off, thus disemboweling said buzzy thing.
Posted by: Kris at July 29, 2005 10:55 AM...and yet you live to tell the tale. Better alert Those In Charge to add this critter to the terrorist list!
Posted by: Mellie Helen at July 29, 2005 11:48 AMHOLY CRAP! My worst nightmare come true.
Hope the sting wears off soon.
If I got stung I would have to face my needlephobia and stab my thigh with a lovely epi pen. That would be the tragedy for me.
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[Buzz it]
Global Warming, my ass!
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