Wasp nest - with a twist

Just had to share this!

I went to the plot this morning to get a leek for home made soup. I see a man in a hi viz vest looking flustered. I ask him if he is ok - he says no.

He had been trying to deliver a skip to our site & had hit a fence post. He got out of his cab to check the post & was instantly attacked by wasps. He had disturbed the nest when he hit the post. He had ran from the lorry - engine still running - grumpy wasps everywhere.

I nipped back home & picked up some antihistamine, sting spray & a flask of coffee for him. He was extrememly grateful...but there were some stings he couldn't reach to spray.

So theres me, with the spray & some strange guy with his trousers round his ankles - t-shirt hiked up & me behind him spraying his stings..he even had to drop his undercrackers
We must have looked a right sight!!

I certainly wasnt expecting that this morning

 

So he really did have a "sting in his tail".

Honestly, what some men will do for attention!!

Steve...

 

I found a wasp nest a month ago when strimming the ditch, they didn't like it much, i got stung a few times
I didn't have a lady in shinning armour to come to my recuse

 

I managed to get a Kids Train Ride closed for the day, there was a nest between the sleepers and the train disturbed them every time it went over. Reported it and the ride was closed.

My kids were NOT happy with me. I did feel a little guilty, but on the plus side, I didnt have to pay for them to go on the ride!!

 

This has been the first year in ages that I've not had a nest amongst my crops (with them wanting to attack me whenever attending/harvesting them), or swarms descending on me when pressing apples for juice.

 

The added bonus to the story was I was the first to access the skip - ALLLL the rubbish on my plot from the previous person is now gone diddly gone - happy days!

 

Now that is what I call an eventful day!!

 

@Cannyfullpots, I've been chuckling to myself all afternoon about your post, I have this image of you spraying a mans posteria with his kacks round his ankles I can just hear what the other allotment holders at saying! (There she was, spraying away, meat & two veg hanging out!) You will be talk of the allotment.... I'm not sure you will live this one down!!!! Thanks for sharing this, it's priceless! Xx

 

Got stung twice a few weeks back, wasp got into my shirt, luckily had some lemon juice in the car to nutralise the sting, stopped it hurting, but not itching.

 

I didnt even know you could use lemon juice for that. Handy to know

 

Just you be carefull where you put that lemon juice!

 

Acidic stuff for wasp stings, alkali for bee stings