[ST] Yellow Jackets

["cretin_1" <cretin_1@xxxxxxx>]

Kinda glad I wasn't the only one! Coming back from the Donner Ski Ranch
Mo'cycle extravaganza, we slowed for the town of Sierra City. To ingest cool
air into the helmet I raised the visor, immediately a yellowjacket/wasp/
hornet entered and proceeded to get stuck betwixt my eyebrow and glasses.
It's very pissed and jabs me with goodness 3 or 4 times, then flies out! Now
I've never forced my beat up face into a charcoal bar-b-que (on purpose),
but I think I can surmise what it would feel like! Thank God it didn't hit
my eye!
The left eye was semi-closed for 2 days, and the 100+ temps all the way home
really didn't help. Helmet removal and installation was also a scream.
Hope you fared better than I,
                                                    Jim
Jim "Desert Dawg" Schroeder
Quartz Hill, CA
'99 Sprint ST "Sable"
(661) 718-2180

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Jenkins" <jeff-jenkins@xxxxxxxx>
To: <ST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 12:35 PM
Subject: [ST] Re: bailing out


>
> On Monday, August 20, 2001, at 11:55 AM, William A. Flowers
>
> > Jeff, don't worry; you missed nothing.
>
> Thanks....  glad the rally was so horrible.  :)
>
> Decided the most fun I could have friday would be to mow the yard....
> especially when I got around the secret yellowjacket nest.  Never seen a
> fat boy with a bad back jump and run until you see me being chased by
> yellowjackets.  I escaped with only about 6 hits but one followed me in
> the house.  I was in the bathroom washing the stings when I heard
> another buzz - stayed calm and looked up and the poor critter looked at
> me and I jammed out of the bathroom, making sure to lock the door on the
> way out.  (amazing how the mind works sometimes)
>
> And of course I think my back is fine for riding now.  Will find out
> tomorrow on my 10 mile ride to work.  :(
>
> Better a lost weekend than a lost summer though....  I SHALL RETURN!
>
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