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  1. #1
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    Quote Originally Posted by kmehrzad View Post
    I'm always coming home after my ride with my face covered in black gnats, some having flown into my eyes, etc. But several weeks ago as I was climbing a hill something nearly flew into my mouth. It hung onto my lip and stung the living daylights out of the inside of my lip; I think it was a yellow jacket. I have a pretty high pain tolerance, but the pain from the sting was almost more than I could take, having occurred in a very sensitive area. I nearly crashed the bike trying to get the bee off my lip then rode home about 20 miles with a swollen lip that lasted through the next day. So gnats aren't that big of a deal any more, just keep the bees away. Thank goodness I'm not allergic to them.
    Oh oh oh! I am so sorry. Happened to my spouse a couple of years ago, too--he got stung on the lip when we were on the tandem. Bleah! Glad you're okay.
    "My predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved;I have been given much and I have given something in return...Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and an adventure." O. Sacks

  2. #2
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    Next you'll have to swallow a spider.

    Then a bird, then a cat, then a dog, then a goat...
    Speed comes from what you put behind you. - Judi Ketteler

  3. #3
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    Quote Originally Posted by OakLeaf View Post
    Next you'll have to swallow a spider.

    Then a bird, then a cat, then a dog, then a goat...
    Haha ... good come back.

 

 

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