# OW!!! Son of a...G&^%\*&....OW!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 4, 2002, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ow-son-of-a-g-ow/112324 "2002-06-04T16:26:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lucretia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@Lucretia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucretia)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2002, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ow-son-of-a-g-ow/112324/1 "2002-06-04T16:26:35Z")
I just got stung on the bottom of my foot by a bumblebee. It hurts a **LOT!!!** Thank you for caring. ---
**Author:** ![Geobabe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/geobabe/32/3908_2.png) [@Geobabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geobabe)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2002, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ow-son-of-a-g-ow/112324/2 "2002-06-04T16:57:52Z")
Oh lord, you poor thing! That happened to me once. Luckily, it was in the arch, so while that part of the foot is a lot more tender than the rest, so it hurt like a MF, it also made it possible for me to walk just a bit. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2002, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ow-son-of-a-g-ow/112324/3 "2002-06-04T16:58:53Z")
“Why didn’t you bite him back?” ---
**Author:** ![Lucretia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@Lucretia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucretia)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2002, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ow-son-of-a-g-ow/112324/4 "2002-06-04T17:15:58Z")
Sniff…thanks for the sympathy, **Geobabe**. Unfortunately, he got me right beside the arch, where all my weight would go if I could put any weight on that foot, which I can’t right now, owie. **Johnny** , I figure having his innards ripped out and dying a slow painful death is probably punishment enough. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2002, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ow-son-of-a-g-ow/112324/5 "2002-06-04T17:22:17Z")
Aw, jeez, I stepped on a bee when I was a kid - 40 years later, I still remember the pain. Poor dear. I think you need to sit down with your feet up, subject to all the pampering and kindly attentions to which you are rightfully entitled. If anyone suggests you should get over it, I say you should fwap 'em upside the head with a baseball bat. This is not a condition to be taken lightly!!! [sub]Hope you get to feeling better soon…[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![KimKatt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ac91a4/32.png) [@KimKatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KimKatt)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2002, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ow-son-of-a-g-ow/112324/6 "2002-06-04T17:28:44Z")
Oooooo! You definitely have my sympathies… Did the same thing, twice!, when I was twelve. Damn, that hurts! \<\<\\>\> ---
**Author:** ![Lucretia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@Lucretia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucretia)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2002, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ow-son-of-a-g-ow/112324/7 "2002-06-04T17:32:51Z")
I think you are right, **FCM**. I’ll have to tell **Bluesman** and the **BlueLuc** brood that I’m out of commission for the evening, and that I shall require that tea and comfy pillows be brought to me. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2002, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ow-son-of-a-g-ow/112324/8 "2002-06-04T17:39:53Z")
**Eddie** (Walter Brennan): Say, was you ever bit by a dead bee? **Beauclerc** (Paul Marion): I have no memory of ever being bit by any kind of bee. **Slim** (Lauren Bacall): (interjecting) Were you? **Eddie** : You’re alright, lady. You and Harry’s the only one that ever… **Morgan** (Humphrey Bogart): Don’t forget Frenchie. **Eddie** : That’s right. You and Harry and Frenchie. You know, you got to be careful of dead bees if you’re goin’ around barefooted, 'cause if you step on them they can sting you just as bad as if they was alive, especially if they was kind of mad when they got killed. I bet I been bit a hundred times that way. **Slim** : You have? **Why don’t you bite them back?** **Eddie** : That’s what Harry always says. But I ain’t got no stinger. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![roadrunner70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@roadrunner70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roadrunner70)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2002, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ow-son-of-a-g-ow/112324/9 "2002-06-04T17:40:46Z")
FCM has a point. My SO got one in the tootsie a couple hours before we were to take a bike ride to the beach one time, and that thing was swollen like littlebee at a porno movie by the time we got there. I had to carry her into the room, where she was laid up for the next couple of days. Hope you’re not 'lergic. ---
**Author:** ![Lucretia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@Lucretia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucretia)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2002, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ow-son-of-a-g-ow/112324/10 "2002-06-04T18:15:06Z")
Ah, I see. Thanks for the popular culture awareness moment, **Johnny** ;). Thanks for the well-wishes, **KK**. No, no allergies, **superbee**. Say, (looking suspicious) where were _you_ at 11:00 this morning?