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High Noon: Stung!

I had never been stung by a bee or a wasp. Perhaps for that reason, I’m very afraid of them. Many, many years ago, when I was quite young, I was at a picnic north of Los Angeles, eating apple pie. A bee landed on my lip, and walked around for what seemed like five minutes, but was probably only a few seconds, before it flew away. Anyway, Friday I reached into the mailbox, to grab the mail. As I grabbed onto the collection of mostly junk mail, I felt something like a cross between electric shock and fire in my finger—and then I saw the wasp in between the envelopes/ Clayton Cramer . More here .

Question: When and where were you last stung by a wasp? How bad did it hurt?

* This story was originally published as a post from the blog "Huckleberries Online." Read all stories from this blog