Bumblebees DO Sting
When I was a wee little lad, catching and keeping creepy crawlers was a favorite past time of mine. Spiders, grasshoppers, beetles, praying mantids, earwigs...you name it, i've kept it. I loved staying over at my cousin's house during the summer because they had a huge backyard, and huge backyards meant lots and lots of bugs. One day, during one of my insects excursions, my uncle said to me...
"Do you see those big bees over there by the melon flowers?"
"Yea, what about them?"
"Those are called bumblebees, and they don't sting."
I thought to myself, "Hmmm...if they don't sting, technically, I can just catch them with my bare hands." What a brilliant idea! So I marched over to the melon flowers in excitement of catching a big, furry bee with my bare hands. I grabbed the first bumblebee I saw by the wings and guess what...it stung me.
Boy did that wipe the giant smile off my face quickly. I was at shock at first. My mind couldn't comprehend what just happened. As the pain sank in, I let out a deathly scream that shattered the windows. My cousins ran over to see what the commotion was. I told them what happened and they carried me inside. The pain was excruciating. I started turning pale and my cousins were THIS close to calling the ambulance. But as quickly as the pain came, it went away and the blood rushed back to my face.
To this day, I still don't know if my uncle was just misinformed or if I got punk'd by my uncle.
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