Halloween Countdown - Things That Are Scary #15

[vivien]

After the success of Jaws, I quickly learned through pop culture that everything in nature was out to get me. It is really no wonder I ended up playing inside for the majority of my childhood.

There was a movie called Swarm, you see, and it was based on TRUE EVENTS. I didn’t see the movie. Mom learned the lesson of inappropriate movies from Jaws. I just saw the commercials on TV, which stirred up my fear into a frenzy.

Here is a still from the movie! That's a kid. With a lollipop. Dead from bees. On the school playground.


GREAT MOVIE. THANKS!

Some of my fear was well-grounded. There were swarms of killer bees killing people in the US, just as there are now. I was allergic to many things, including, the doctors suspected, bee stings. They never tested me, since on the testing day, I was nothing but one giant welt from all the other substances I reacted to. They warned my mom to be prepared for anaphylactic shock if I ever got stung. They probably thought I was too young to know what that meant. Uh, I got the gist, doctors. I was a smart kid.

Being covered in bees is not always funny. Especially Africanized honey bees. Gah.



So my shark books from the library were joined by bee books. Bees are very cool! As long as they stay a long, long way from me.

Don't get me started on hornets or wasps, though. They should all die in fires.

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[agonistes]

THAT'LL GIVE YOU BEES

(somebody had to say it)