She said her homeowner’s insurance won’t cover anything pest-related because they deem it preventable.
So the real monster was the insurance company. What a twist!
well, that’s one way to get a kid to be afraid of bees.
Poor kid. hope she never got stung? doesn’t sound like she did.
In elementary school, our gym got infested by bees or wasps (don’t remember exactly) and they were everywhere. We still were forced to do sports class in there. I got stung twice and then ran outside, bawling my eyes out. I’m now in my 30s and have a severe phobia of bees, wasps and hornets. Bumblebees are fine though for some reason.
My parents forced me to play outside when I was very young, and I didn’t want to. Stepped on what’s probably a mud wasp nest, and two wasps circled my leg and stung me a bunch. I cried a lot.
Anything yellow and black bug near me makes me MAD DASH AWAY. I got made fun of for a long time, “oh they won’t hurt you, just ignore them”
Like motherfucker I CANNOT IGNORE THEM YOU TWAT
I love fluffy bumblebees though. I still panic before I confirm fluff.
“oh they won’t hurt you, just ignore them”
Oh yeah I got hit with this a lot. But I have empiric evidence of the contrary right in my memory! D:
Bumblebees don’t sting. They just kinda bounce around. They also aren’t laser focused like wasps and some bees. They do bite though, so don’t let them land on you.
So she was basically correct.
What if 60,000 of them collectively formed the shape of another creature for the express purpose of terrifying a child? 🤔
That’s basically a character on Rick and Morty (except its like a million ants)
60,000 of anything is basically a monster. I wouldn’t even want to be confronted by 60,000 koalas.
If they’re pissed off enough to swarm in the tens of thousands, they are temporarily…
FYI. The quantity of bees in a hive has more to do with their ability to find good food sources nearby, and the suitability of the place they’ve made their home, and nothing to do with their temperament. That size hive would not be considered particularly remarkable in an apiary. A “swarm” of bees is actually just a bunch of bees that split off from a successful hive and are looking for a new home and are typically very docile. Since this colony had a home (these people’s house), it was technical not a “swarm.”
When I was very little, maybe 2, my mum had sat me down in front of Sesame Street while she did some chores. Not long after I came running into the kitchen “mummy mummy there’s a birdie in the front room!” She said yes, that was big bird and to go back in and watch it. I kept running back to her increasingly more upset about the birdie until she came into the living room to find a pigeon had come down the chimney and was irately trying to escape. I know I was too young to remember it, but I swear I can recall the feeling of vindication!
