View Full Version : I almost cut my hair...
Mishka_84
March 20th, 2013, 08:44 PM
And I would have been very happy to do so at the time. DH thinks I would have regretted it though. It's actually a pretty funny story, and I thought y'all could appreciate it.
I'm scared of stinging and biting types of bugs. Monday afternoon, I was outside with DD, when a bee landed on my lazy wrap bun. I tried to stay calm and just brush it out of my hair, but it didn't go anywhere. So I started to panic. I pulled the stick out and shook my hair down (to the side, so it wouldn't be too close to my back or skin), and sure enough the thing was tangled into my hair, near the ends. I started screaming bloody murder, beating the end of my hair with my hairstick. I was also running up and down the length of my driveway, though now I'm not sure why I was running. Fight or flight mode, I guess. DD thought I was hilarious, kept saying "Silly mommy!" and following me, which really didn't help my panic. I kept picturing the bee getting out, landing on her and stinging her.
I was running towards the house with the intention of just cutting it out of my hair when I finally realized it was gone. I'm just barely to waist length, so this would have set me back several inches, but I still think it would have been worth it.
Kherome
March 20th, 2013, 08:55 PM
Seriously? Are you allergic or something?
Mishka_84
March 20th, 2013, 09:02 PM
Seriously? Are you allergic or something?
No, and I honestly don't know why I panic like that, but it happens every time I get near one. It's worse than when I'm around spiders (well, unless the spider was actually ON me, then I'd have a heart attack). I've always panicked like that, as long as I can remember, and I think I've only ever been stung once, that was as a teenager.
MiaBeth
March 20th, 2013, 09:03 PM
Eww, how horrible -- I too share your fear of insects. A wolf spider (not sure if this actually is an insect!) once landed in my hair while I was showering ... I could feel it's pointy little legs as I frantically tried to get it off my head *shudder.* It met its untimely end via the bottom of a shampoo bottle : )
Kherome
March 20th, 2013, 09:05 PM
Hmm, ok. I guess unless it's poisonous or big enough to eat me I don't get too riled up by critters. Maybe you can get hypnosis to fix your phobia?
Kherome
March 20th, 2013, 09:06 PM
Eww, how horrible -- I too share your fear of insects. A wolf spider (not sure if this actually is an insect!)
Yes, wolf spiders are actually an insect. Technically an arachnid...but you know.
jacqueline101
March 20th, 2013, 09:27 PM
I'm glad you got it out and didn't cut your hair.
Naiadryade
March 21st, 2013, 12:13 AM
Eww, how horrible -- I too share your fear of insects. A wolf spider (not sure if this actually is an insect!) once landed in my hair while I was showering ... I could feel it's pointy little legs as I frantically tried to get it off my head *shudder.* It met its untimely end via the bottom of a shampoo bottle : )
Oh god. Now I'm going to be paranoid next time I take a shower. I'm sure I'll spend the whole time checking the ceiling for spiders. Yeesh! Bees I generally just sit very still until they realize I'm not really a flower and fly away... but spiders, that's another story!
thirstylocks
March 21st, 2013, 12:17 AM
OMG!! If that happened to me, I think I would faint :( I'm really scared of bugs too - to the point where I freak out if I even hear something remotely sounding like buzzing.
Although I can't help but laugh thinking of you running around and beating your hair....lol
MaryMarx
March 21st, 2013, 01:24 AM
Oh, what a nightmare. :(
I'm not scared of those things but as a child I had a terrible phobia for ants, a specific kind here in Swedish forests, so I understand your panic. Mine disappeared as I got older though, but I still have to control myself very hard from running if I'm walking in a path or something and they're crawling around. :run:
MaryMarx
March 21st, 2013, 01:24 AM
Sorry, double post.
joflakes
March 21st, 2013, 02:06 AM
:laugh: sorry, but it does sound a bit funny! I'm glad you didn't get your scissors out, though! :)
tigereye
March 21st, 2013, 03:54 AM
Oh, how horrible for you. I'm totally fine with most insects, but wasps get me like that. Don't know why, since I've never been stung by one. I've been bitten by a number of spiders before, and I've had a horrible reaction every time, (once in the carribean, and the rest in the Scottish countryside - picture big, red, really painful lump the size of my hand, usually with rings around the bite mark - to think UK spiders are generally not thought to bite) and yet I'm not scared of them. I'm not scared of bees, as long as I can see its definitely a bee, and not a wasp.
I shudder to think what I would do if a wasp landed in my hair - thankfully, I think if it got tangled in my bun, it would at least have all my hair between it and my head. But still.. :shudder:
Neneka
March 21st, 2013, 04:12 AM
I completely get this. I like insects and such but I got a friend who is seriously scared of bugs. She is even scared of my fridge magnets that are giant insects. Seriously. It's not funny because she is so scared. It's hard for her to even touch a book if she knows there is a picture of a spider somewhere. No one ever teases her about it because they know it's so serious to her. I really get why you reacted like that. I am happy that the bee was gone by itself and that didn't turn to a bigger disaster.
Merlin
March 21st, 2013, 04:14 AM
Am I the only person here old enough to have instantly thought of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4YpqRPLIWc
Mishka_84
March 21st, 2013, 04:47 AM
For those of you who laughed, don't worry, I can laugh about it now too. I fully admit it must have looked ridiculous. I am pretty glad none of the neighbors was home to see (though at the time I was wishing they were so they could help me, lol).
embee
March 21st, 2013, 05:20 AM
Sympathy!
Once when I was a teen and living in South Carolina a big palmetto bug (say "giant roach") landed in my hair. I had a hysterical fit and my mom slapped me upside the head to stop me. Just thinking about it gives me the skin-crawls.
You do realize with bees it is best to stay very still?
Hard to overcome the instant gut reaction of RUN, SCREAM, GET IT OUT!!!! though.
Angelica
March 23rd, 2013, 05:41 PM
A bee sting can kill somebody who is very allergic, and unfortunately you may not realise you are that allergic until it is too late. I can well understand your attitude to this incident and am glad you didn't resort to cutting. I was stung by a wasp once in the hand and the pain in my joints afterwards was horrific, even my fingers swelled up and were stiff. Fortunately bees are not as vicious as wasps. I guess you must be having some good weather where you are at the moment for bees to be out :)
lapushka
March 23rd, 2013, 05:50 PM
I'm sitting here wondering why on earth you pulled your hairstick out. You must have known the bee would get entangled in your hair. The things we do out of sheer panic. :lol:
RavenBaby
March 23rd, 2013, 05:52 PM
You are so not alone, I panic so much whenever I see an insect that isn't tiny, it just irrationally freaks me out. Bees are the worst for me.
Naiadryade
March 23rd, 2013, 06:11 PM
Am I the only person here old enough to have instantly thought of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4YpqRPLIWc
It's been running through my head for days, every time I see the title of this thread on the forum. I actually just came back into this thread to comment about it and post the video... lol! I'm only 25, but my Dad taught me well. CSNY is one of both of our favorite bands.
leslissocool
March 23rd, 2013, 06:14 PM
Oh god. Now I'm going to be paranoid next time I take a shower. I'm sure I'll spend the whole time checking the ceiling for spiders. Yeesh! Bees I generally just sit very still until they realize I'm not really a flower and fly away... but spiders, that's another story!
OMG yet ANOTHER thing to look out for! I am terrified of bugs.
A bee sting can kill somebody who is very allergic, and unfortunately you may not realise you are that allergic until it is too late. I can well understand your attitude to this incident and am glad you didn't resort to cutting. I was stung by a wasp once in the hand and the pain in my joints afterwards was horrific, even my fingers swelled up and were stiff. Fortunately bees are not as vicious as wasps. I guess you must be having some good weather where you are at the moment for bees to be out :)
Seriously, I've been stung ONCE and I ended up in the hospital. It was the worse experience of my life, I knew bee allergy ran in my family but I didn't know I had it so even after I was swollen I didn't really think twice. Until I started to have hives, uncontrollable itching, a fever that nearly made me pass out, kept vomiting and swelling up and it was PAINFUL. I waited too long, I think 2 hours until I went to the hospital. I certainly could have died.
Funny thing is, a mosquito bite also makes me swell up and gives me hives. So I have developed a crippling paranoia to most insects. I carry epi pens around...
Yozhik
March 23rd, 2013, 06:35 PM
Am I the only person here old enough to have instantly thought of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4YpqRPLIWc
Ahhh...no, but thanks for reminding me of this brilliant song. :)
patienceneeded
March 23rd, 2013, 08:25 PM
No, and I honestly don't know why I panic like that, but it happens every time I get near one. It's worse than when I'm around spiders (well, unless the spider was actually ON me, then I'd have a heart attack). I've always panicked like that, as long as I can remember, and I think I've only ever been stung once, that was as a teenager.
Glad to know I'm not the only one who would have completely FREAKED if that had happened to me. I can't STAND bees or wasps, or any other flying stingy bug. Terribly and irrationally afraid of them, have been my entire life. Trying to stay calm around them for the sake of my daughter, but I would have lost it if one was tangled in my hair!
kittengirl
March 23rd, 2013, 09:18 PM
I'm scared of anything fluttering caught in my hair. If I can hear/feel it fluttering I freak out. Especially with moths and dragonflies, even though I find them beautiful when they are not on me. I think this is because I had a bat caught in my wl hair once when I was younger, and it was during broad daylight, so that really scared me.
WaitingSoLong
March 23rd, 2013, 09:23 PM
I was deathly afraid of bees until I got stung a few times (I made it til my mid-twenties before my first sting). Since then, I don't really care except with hornets. Stings are not that bad. No big deal. I have had them fly in my open car window and land on me. That kind of sucks. But I have never been stung by a hornet and I hear they are the worst. I have to take down a hornet's nest at least once a year, and dozens of wasp nests. They like the horse barn. Ugh.
Wasps are more aggressive. Yellow jackets, honey bees, carpenter bees and bumble bees are not, though I have been stung the most by yellow jackets, usually because I am standing on their nest or mowing over it (they often nest in the ground).
Anyway, I enjoyed reading your story ;) It was funny. And I am glad you kept your hair. Too bad we can't say the same about your head. (get it?).
thirstylocks
March 23rd, 2013, 10:16 PM
I agree with whoever said they get paranoid about butterflies - anything that can fly around and is suspiciously tiny terrifies me. Even lightning bugs and common flies!
I go to school in manhattan, and I live in a dorm. Once, as I was minding my own business watching videos on my laptop in bed, a giant brown roach with antennae the size of my middle finger fell right on my face from a pipe above my bed...and I jumped out of bed and it crawled in my sheets.
Lets just say my entire floor came to the rescue because they heard my screams and thought I was being murdered...if that thing had gotten tangled in my hair I dont even know ....it makes me want to cry just thinking about it.
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