Woman in Park Tells Happy Hour Host to Buzz Off

My blogs “Spring Can Die” and “Save the Bees?” have had some people buzzing. See what I did there? Many of my blogs are sprinkled with my personality, so I feel that you probably know me pretty well by now. My friend, Jim, has been bugging me to tell the bee in the park story. You know what? I guess I have another point to make with that story anyway. It actually brings together the messages of four of my latest blogs, “I hate Spring, I hate bees, I believe we’re all in this together and pet peeves.” So, ok, I will tell you another embarrassing story about me. Thanks Jim!

I love to run. Weird, I know, but it’s the one form of exercise that I really, really love. I found a beautiful park near my house with mile markers, so this was terrific for me. I’d go as often as possible, at least four times a week.

One Saturday morning, I laced up my running shoes, grabbed my ear buds and a bottle of water, and headed to the park. I keep track of my speed and distance with an app on my phone. My goal has always been three miles. If I do more, great, but I have to run at least three miles. Two miles into this particular run, I heard (my skin is crawling just typing this). I heard this horrible buzzing sound right near my ear.

So, yeah, I totally freaked out. Hey, I was by myself, and was not carrying my EpiPen. It’s not exactly convenient to carry that thing while you’re running. I took my baseball cap off and started waving it wildly over my head as I blazed a trail that Carl Lewis would have been proud of. Running for my life, and waving that pink ballcap like a crazy person over my head. That little buzzing jerk stayed right there with me, letting me know that somehow I angered him. See what I mean? What the heck did I do? I stayed on the man-made trail, he came after me!

There was a woman at the head of the running trail standing by her bicycle. I ran towards her and said, “I’m allergic to bees and one is chasing me, can you help me? Is he still around me?” She looked at me, got on her bike and said, “Yeah, they’ll do that,” and took off.

I will admit that I must have looked like a lunatic, waving that pink ballcap over my head, and running like lightning towards her. But as I watched her ride away, I thought, “Wow, if the bee had stung me, and I was dead on the trail, would she have run over me?”

People! Let’s care about each other!

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