Wasps
Are during the summer the bane of my working life. I don't mind them so much, but get dirty looks from customers whenever they see them in the shop - which over the last couple of weeks has been just about all the time. I can deal with the wasps - don't bother them and they don't sting - but every so often, there comes a customer who really doesn't like them. I can sympathise with people who are scared of them - but do they really HAVE to wave their arms around and end up, as happened the other day, hitting the wasp straight at me, so that I get stung on the face multiple times? I may be here to serve you, but did you really, really have to then laugh at my pain? It HURTS.
(And yes, I mean you, the bloke in the Man U football shirt with the three kids and the wife/girlfriend/gibbon in a crop top and jeans who looked rather too similar to you.)
(Pretty strangers and promises, Mon 8 Sep 2008, 20:20, 5 replies)

No way did you get stung in the face!? Surely never!

I had a wasp doing that annoying buzz in my face trick the other day so I gave it one of those half-hearted grabs (like a one hand clap) and crushed the poor fucker.

Apologies to anyone if it re-assembled its carapace T-1000 style and went on a relentless face stinging binge...
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Mon 8 Sep 2008, 20:28, closed)

I hope this isn't you.

( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Mon 8 Sep 2008, 20:38, closed)

That picture gives me the fear.

(Pretty strangers and promises, Mon 8 Sep 2008, 21:08, closed)

I'm not well enough versed in these things to tell...
So someone please reassure me that's a shop.

Please?
(Mr. In-Between has regretted posting this ever since, Mon 8 Sep 2008, 23:05, closed)

i'm sorry
but i think i'd probably have laughed, too. you'd still get my sympathy, because i know that wasp stings really hurt.
especially on the arse :(
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Mon 8 Sep 2008, 23:05, closed)