I was mowing a friends field for him, he was getting a little long in the tooth to do it himself, and while I was mowing, I hit a Yellow Jacket nest.
One of the things got tossed up onto the side of my head and stuck under my ear and eyeglasses.
It must have stung me 4 or 5 times before I finally squished the little bugger, but I was running for my life at the same time, as those buggers swarmed out of the ground.
It was incredible, and I told my friend that I would not be mowing his field again.
I probably had 15 stings, I got real lucky.
I don't blame you for not wanting to mow that field again. I've been stung a couple of times and found out that it is very, very painful.
Back in '77 or '78 I was tagging along with my Dad who was walking a piece of property he was thinking of buying when one of us stepped on an underground nest of yellow jackets. We didn't realize it unitl they were already stinging. Ouch!
We both turned and ran-- right trough about two dozen banana spider webs!
To this day I swear that those huge spiders crawling over me was much worse than the six or seven yellow jacket stings that I received. As an adult I know they are relatively harmless, but as a kid nothing is creepier looking than a banana spider.
He didn't buy the property.