Yep it happened, I haven’t been stung for like 10-15 years. Just out running some errands on the fixie when a bee/wasp apparently flew up my shorts and stung me on the bottom of my ass. It was a true Forrest Gump moment I tell you what. Guess I should stick to tights when I ride, haha. On a side note you all would have been laughing your asses off if you would have seen the me look for the stinger, the move I was doing looked like it came from the book of Kama Sutra.
Last week, whipping down a long hill out of Joe rich into Kelowna (if you know the area, you’ll know). Wasp got stuck under the rim of the Aero helmet about when I hit 60 km/h. Three stings before I could come to a stop and chuck the helmet about 20 feet.
I got stung by a hive of yellow jackets when I was cutting the grass when I was about 12. I had over 40 stings all over my body. I had an allergic reaction and had to be taken to the emergency room. They gave me something and I ended up getting to sleep in my bed that night. But I didn’t get to go to Kings Island, an amusement park outside of Cincy, the next day with the rest of my family. My whole family left me at home by myself with the number for the neighbor in case something happened.
I, too got stung by a whole hive of yellow jackets when I was around 9 years old. My family were visiting a friend of my mom’s that had a dairy farm in central Massacusetts. We went with her and some of the farm hands to go mow a field of hay. As my family and I were walking through the field behind the tractor/mower, we walked straight through the nest that had been cut open by the mower. Needless to say, we all got many stings, I don’t know how many. It was crazy, we were all running around, out to the road, my parents beating me, my sister(13) and brother(7) with jackets to get the little bastards off of us. People passing by in cars just staring at us like we were all insane. After a few minutes we tried to escape into our car. A few came in with us but we were able to kill them as there weren’t that many compared to outside. Fortunately, none of us are allergic to the stings so all we got were some painful welts all over us. A little while later they calmed down and left. To this day, even though I’m not allergic or anything, I am scared to death of any kind of be or wasp. I have been stung once since then and it didn’t hurt that much and the welt went away in a day or two-still scared to death! Lord help me if one gets into my house or car. I’d almost rather leave the premesis until it dies on it’s own(days, weeks?) than confront the damn little thing. It’s really rather pathetic but I can’t help it.
Never got stung in the butt, but I did get stung on the d**k while on a bike ride a few years back. It took my breath away for a few minutes and a bit of panic set in; but, it never got as painful as I thought it would.
I did the old “suck a bee into the helmet vent” trick for the first time this summer. Felt a sudden WHAP! at 25 MPH, then felt something crawling around in there, and I guessed (correctly) what was coming next. Actually, it was my first time ever getting stung by anything.
No lasting ill effects, but I was a tiny bit worried, being twenty miles from home, and having a family history of bee sting allergy. Made my helmet feel a little tight.
I got stung by a bee just this past weekend - at a race - while on the bike - going about 24mph. The little f*cker bumped into me (or I into him…ummm her) and managed to grab hold of a little piece of flesh on my wrist right behind my watch. Was stinging me before I knew it. I flicked him (ummm her) off and then realized the stinger was still in. Managed to pull that out and then squeezed what seemed to be an awful lot of venom out. Still, plenty of venom stayed in, and it hurt and was a distraction for the rest of the race. And I doubt that bee venom is anything close to a performance enhancing drug.
So I wonder if a bee “enjoys” stinging. Like an orgasm. Yes, I know they die afterwards, but was that stinging moment a great satisfaction for the little dudette?..before being flicked to the asphalt and writhing in agony until death.
Got one down my jersey on the second lap of the bike in Ironman Arizona where it stung me in the middle of the back. Then a couple of weeks ago on a fast descent, one flew in my mouth. Was able to spit it out without crashing but it still managed to sting me on the lip on it’s way out. Hopefully I’m done getting stung for awhile!
I’m lucky enough that I manage to get stung about once a month… Apparently to bees, my sweat smells like pollen?
Here goes my favorite bee story from last year. In the middle of a hard cycling workout, I was putting my head down pushing hard and a bee flew in my mouth and stung the back side of my tongue. My tongue swelled up large enough that it took about 5 hours before I could talk normal again. It wasn’t much more painful, just extremely… odd…
I had a little bugger land and enter my beer can while playing golf (with clients). I went to take a sip and BAM! Right on the lower lip. My lip swelled up like Mike Tyson punched me…
Got the deal though…client thought it was hillarious.
I chased a baseball as a kid (maybe 14-15?) to a hole in the ground. Ball was still visible, so I reached down & grabbed it. It landing on the nest entrance had already stirred them up so when I removed their new “door”, they all came out. They attacked as I sprinted away. I must be fast, cause the only ones who stung me were the ones that initially flew up my shorts & came along for the ride. I was sprinting & trying to smash them against my ass, hips, whatever - just trying to kill them as they were stinging away. I think I had about 10 total stings. I’m sure it would have appeared funny to a viewer, me running, screaming, punching myself in the dick. No big deal with this incident though, just the welts & initial pain.
Then about a year later I got stung by a honeybee on the back of my hand. It swelled up bigger than a tennis ball, had to go to emergency room for that one. I wonder if the big dose of venom from the prior year’s attach triggered a new sensitivity to them? Haven’t been in the last 25 years or so though. I hope to make it 25 more.
Bee stings are funny when happening to someone else. I remember picking up a nest once on a construction site when we were grading next to a building and I picked up a clump of dirt to throw it in the woods about thirty yards away. By the time I realized I was carrying the nest I had been stung a few times and they were starting to swarm. As I realized what what was happening and began running and swatting I had to endure insult upon injury as I saw the guy in the bulldozer laughing his ass off.