EricV
Riding, farkling, riding...
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Recently was riding along, minding my own business at about 55 mph and I see a dark spot growing larger by the moment in front of me, then feel it hit me in the chest. Jacket was open at the collar, but I thought it hit me in the jacket, not the T shirt. Maybe it did, but it ended up going down the jacket. At first, nothing and I keep riding along... A few miles later I start feeling something crawling on me inside my jacket. Something fairly size-able... Naturally, I do the right thing and smack it thru my jacket, hard. Naturally, it stings me and I pull over in haste, unzipping and getting my jacket open, then my shirt up to find a female Great Black Wasp about 1.5 inches long. I manage to get it off me and give it the requisite stomp on the ground. The pain is fairly high on the scale, but manageable. I take a couple of advil that I keep on the bike and zip back up and off we go. By the time we got home I had a nice red welt, but it mostly was no longer painful after a couple of hours.