Dog, Wasp,Gerbil and Cat
First re-collections are of the local neighbourhood feral cat Christina, 5 yr old me poking at it with a bamboo stick, said cat takes offense and launches a furious attack on poor little old me. Fortunatley I was protected by my 1970's parka coat and escaped with minimal scratches and a new found respect for cats.

At school approximately aged 9-10 some bigger boys are throwing stones into a wasps nest in someones garden that backs onto the school field. I walk past wihtout realising what they were doing and proceed to spend the next ten minutes running round screaming like a girl while a swarm of wasps sting me and get stuck in my jumper. I then get a mate to flick the stuck wasps off with a stick and one by one they fly back and sting me again. Bastard wasps, years later I took revenge with a water pistol and can of lighter fluid.

First real pet, two gerbils, lovely little furry things they were. Till the day I put my hand in to change the food bowl and the little bastard bit me! Hung on to my knuckle joint on right index finger whilst I shook it about screaming, little bastard would not let go, that was until I started to beat it on the top of the old chest freezer. It flew off and hid behind the freezer and it took my mother 2 hours to coax the little git out. I still have the scar from that.

Worst one was the dog, sat on local park swings stroking firends alsatian. Must have stroked over a sore spot on the dog or something because it swung round and hit me with its muzzle, well so I thought till I saw the look on my firends faces. I slowly raised my hand to check my head, as my fingers slowly plunged into a gooey mess and hit bone I knew it was time to go home and stop playing. Mother thought I had been in a knife fight and I swear to this day she still doesnt believe me it was a dog.
The dog had infact bitten me quite badly, it missed my eye by about 20mm and I had a nice scratch all the way up my forehead going into my hairline on the left side of my head and then a nice 4" long gash down to the bone.
Still have the scar from that one and a nice bald line in my head.
( M o D, Thu 2 Jun 2005, 15:24, Reply)