I was stung for the first time in my life, just a couple months shy of my 49th birthday. There goes that streak. I'll never live long enough to beat it. Now what to live for.
Seriously though. I was just standing talking to someone and my hand was in my pocket. He watched the wasp just non-chalantly land on my wrist and then that son-of-a-bitch stung me. My arm was still and I wasn't even threatening it. My wrist was sore for two days but I hardly had any swelling. It looked more like a mini welt. That same guy I was talking to was stung a week later and his entire hand swelled up something fierce... it looked like a rubber glove had been inflated.
One thing I have learned and I'm not sure if this is a myth spread on social media or true... When you kill a wasp it leaves behind a scent that attracts other wasps to come to the area and they essentially are out for vengeance.
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