Irish Wasp
A wasp made me laugh the other day. He told me a joke I hadn’t heard for 10 years.
I didn’t used to find it funny.
My first sting for so many years hurt, pained and itched. It stung in other words. Like wasps stings always do.
But so what, I thought as the wasp walked right beside my face on the window. I could have killed him with a book - the hard notebook I use for American Hell. In fact he was walking that slow I could’ve killed him with a paperback.
I thought this as the inside of my upper arm continued to sting. And I laughed.
It’s the mosquitos you see. My first summer in Ireland for 10 years. My first summer without the mosquitos for a decade.
So as the sting swelled up annoyingly I just laughed. For it’s late August and I have escaped the mosquito bites.
Those cheery little wasps can sting me another 100 times this month if they like.
[ NOTE: I have actually been bitten by mosquitos in Ireland this year. Twice early in the summer here in Dublin. I even saw the little blighters who did it, but I let them live too - because the immediate itch made me well up with nostalgia.]
See Also:
• Do You Have Mosquitos in Ireland?
• Frequently Asked Irish Questions
• Infrequently Asked Irish KC Questions
• More Infrequently Asked Irish KC Questions
Eolaí gan Fhéile:
Many stings take place during the fall months. Reason being, bees and wasps are cold blooded insects and they linger around people and pets in order to absorb the body heat, therefore increasing the chances of getting stung for both.
Last week, I witnessed a 4 year old girl with her hand and forearm swollen to her elbow, from a wasp sting that she received to her fingertip the day before. The sight of her hand and arm brought tears to my eyes because I knew that if she had had Baker’s Venom Cleanser available when she was stung, none of her discomfort would have elevated to that extreme point of swelling and discomfort.
Our web site http://www.BeeStingCure.com has under gone some new additions worth taking a look at. Old news commentary video footage from 1988 has been added to YouTube.com/BeeStingCure and the link is available at our site.
You may borrow my wife occasionally. Whenever we are in the presence of squits, she is the only one who gets bitten.
Obviously yummier then me.
Ah but Sniffle people have been borrowing me for that very purpose for a long time now - not that I’m claiming to be yummier than your wife you understand.
Nice. My children currently look like they have chicken pox they are so smothered in mosquito bites. It is a little gross. Or a lot gross. Yet another reason for me to be jealous (of living in Ireland). I bet you don’t have what they call ‘black flies’ here either. Black flies are not present in KC. They appear to be a Canadian bug. They will come and take a chunk out of your temple- I’m still getting used to this- and you will have a big stream of blood running down your face. Lovely, isn’t it? I should write for Tourism Nova Scotia. I was sure someone was about to die the first time I witnessed this.