gah!

[marguerite_26]

I almost walked into a hornets' nest picking up my kids at bus stop this afternoon.

Walking into a literal hornet's nest. NOT COOL

I've walked into plenty of figurative ones in my day. Those weren't cool either.

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[ginger-veela.livejournal.com]

Sometimes hard to say which is worse, though. ;-)

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

today... I'm going to go with literal. D:

[hobnailedboots.livejournal.com]

D: ahhh!

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

FACE FIRST. It wouldn't have been pretty. D:

[hobnailedboots.livejournal.com]

ugh, I am sympathy flailing rn. Sometimes I am glad to live in a cold country so long as there are fewer large evil buzzing death merchants.

[k-nightfox.livejournal.com]

Ahh!! OMG, that would have been horrible!!

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

It totally would have been. Especially because I was walking with my kids at the time. They would have been traumatized, I think. D:

[hogwartsvixxxen.livejournal.com]

OHNO! So glad you okay. *whew* ♥ *hugs* :)

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

ty. yeah. D:

[hogwartsvixxxen.livejournal.com]

♥ *hugs tight*

[nympha-alba.livejournal.com]

WAAAHHH!

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

One of those moments where the could have been is just unthinkable. D:

[faynia.livejournal.com]

KILL IT! KILL IT WITH SPRAY! D:

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

It's not on our property so Mr. M went out to the owners and told them: I'm homing back tonight after dark and getting rid of that thing.

It's attached to the Stop sign at the kids bus stop. :/

[chantefable.livejournal.com]

What an unnecessary wildlife experience. *hugs*

All the sleep and chocolate for Maggie!

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

What an unnecessary wildlife experience.

haha... yeah. that describes it perfectly.

[hardticket.livejournal.com]

Hun, that's taking metaphor a bit too far. :P

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

TOTALLY.

[k-nightfox.livejournal.com]

Funny story: I actually did walk into a hornet's nest (well, on top of a nest of mud wasps but it's pretty much the same thing) as a kid with my girl scout troupe as we were hiking in the local woods. Everyone got stung but me. Two girls actually went to the hospital! So, I escaped the worst of it because as usual, I was lollygagging at the back of the pack. Yeah, I thought I dodged that bullet until the following day, when still camping/hiking in the same area, I stopped to take a drink of water. With my arm lifted, a wasp flew into my sleeve and when I put my arm down proceeded to sting me over and over in my armpit. Fucking Ouch!!Ice packs under the arm pit for two days.

Apropos of nothing, I know but you almost walking into a hornet's nest reminded me of that so vividly!

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

that story isn't funny.


D:

D:

*pets little you*

[k-nightfox.livejournal.com]

OK, not funny but even at the time I found it highly ironic that I escaped the big swarm only to get stung the next day! I think I was about 8 or 9 at the time.

Give me a bee over a wasp/hornet ANY day. I once had a hornet sting me in the leg while I was in bed! It left a hole in my leg the size of the head of a pin! I mean on the grand scheme of things, that's not a giant wound but it swelled up to look like half a softball with this hole in the top. Now that hurt!! Bees, are nothing in comparison, I have been stung by them dozens of times in my life (I used to walk to school through the woods and then a really overgrown field. Bees everywhere, they used to get caught in my clothes and fly into my boots as I lifted my legs. It got so that a sting from a bee was less annoying than a mosquito bite cuz it would sting for a few seconds then be gone.)

Wasps are evil!!

[xsmoonshine.livejournal.com]

Yargh. No playing with buzzy things that sting! D:

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

D:

no, indeed.

[aevenien.livejournal.com]

*HUGS*
That reminds me about my dad, we had hornets’ nest in our roof, we call for fireman, but they want to destroy these boards under the roof, anyway my dad decided he can deal with it by himself. So he wore that special hat and clothes, took tennis racket, sprayed the nest and then killed like 30 hornets with his tennis racket. Nope, my family isn't normal...

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

D:

That is... D:

How do you even kill a hornet with a tennis racket?

[aevenien.livejournal.com]

I have no idea xD But apparently it's quite possible and effective xD
I'm scared of hornets like hell and I'm like "DAD! Omg, there is hornet in my room, omg, I can't leave, he is flying near the door, please come and save me!" XD

[sabriel75.livejournal.com]

Uhm... walk tall and avoid hornets? :)

Glad you did manage to avoid potential catastrophe.

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

good plan! to be fair I turned around quickly to grab Littlest's hand and completely forgot that there was a nest in the stop sign beside me. D: oh, hello there wasps. :/

[vaysh11.livejournal.com]

That "almost" in your first line makes me very happy. WHY ARE THERE HORNETS' NESTS AT THIS BUSSTOP???

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

Mr. M went to the owners of the property our bus stop is on and told them he's going to spray it tonight. :/

it was ... ALMOST terrible.

[dysonrules.livejournal.com]

[marguerite-26.livejournal.com]

mte.

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

Eeep! Glad you avoided the collision. You're not allergic I hope? Or the kidlet?

Epipen = lifesaver

[girlofavalon.livejournal.com]

Yikes! D:

[sesheta-66.livejournal.com]

D: D: D:

[seths-dream.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD.
That sounds terrifying. D:

I can't tell you how glad I am that it says almost in your post.

[knowmefirst.livejournal.com]

Omg! Are you okay? I know you didn't walk into it, but those thing can sometimes sting you even when you are close enough. *hugs*

[bohemiabythesea.livejournal.com]

I'm even panicking only hearing about this.

[besamislabios]

How scary! I'm glad you only *almost* did, their sting are so painful. *hugs*