Bob Denton wrote: > > I think you stated it was a bumblebee and I believe they do not lose their > stingers. > > cya I don't believe I stated the type of bee. I'm a city kid. A bee is a bee is a bee to me. Given the circumstances of its flight pattern I would think it was a fumblebee. Another story, and I hope Jackie forgives my being off-Paddlewise topic. Last summeer I pulled out a pair of shorts from my cluttered closet and felt this static sensation one gets from synthetic clothing. I took the shorts over to my wife in the next room and she felt the same sensation commenting "It feels alive". I wondered about that and squeezed the hell out of the area that seemed most static, shook the shorts out, looked everywhere and then put them away. Three days later I went to put on the same shorts. Got them on and was zipping up the fly when I felt the same sensation quite strongly on my left hip. I whipped off the shorts and tossed them to the floor. At which point a dazed bee staggers out of the pocket liner. It then flies straight up in the air to a level just 18 inches from my now terrified face, looks me in the eye, hovers there for a second or two, gets its bearings and makes a bee line for an open window and out of there. ralph -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralph Diaz . . . Folding Kayaker newsletter PO Box 0754, New York, NY 10024 Tel: 212-724-5069; E-mail: rdiaz_at_ix.netcom.com "Where's your sea kayak?"----"It's in the bag." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri Feb 18 2000 - 09:12:44 PST
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