The Birds and The Bees
I know where you think this is going, but its not.
Is anyone else scared of bees or birds?
We’ve been having some really nice weather down here in Knoxville for the past few weeks. Recently I went out to my car and realized that the bushes nearby were covered in bees. I hate bees. And when I say hate I mean I’m terrified of them. Always have been and I’m not sure why. I never had a traumatic moment growing up at summer camp where I wandered into a hive. Never had a queen hide in my lunchbox out on the playground. But since I can remember, I’ve always been scared of bees. After seeing them near my car that day, the whole ride home I was on edge. Every time the wind hit me weird, I thought I had a bee in my hair. Every time I had an itch, it was a bee crawling up my leg. I know one day I’m going to reenact this scene from Tommy Boy.
My one big bee experience, the one and only time I’ve been stung, occurred at a Cluck-U chicken. I was eating lunch, a dozen very saucy, very spicy wings, when a bee flew in and got me right in the neck. Immediately my sauce covered hand went straight for me neck. Now I imagine that a bee sting in itself it somewhat painful, but covering it in hot sauce did not help the situation. So along with a pain in my neck, I had to suffer the rest of the workday (did I mention I was on a lunch break from my first real office job?) smelling like wing sauce with an orange collar.
Sometimes I think my fear has more to do with the fact that bees fly. I also hate birds. Less in the fear-inducing hysteria sense and more in the creeped out sense. I still don’t understand how they make good pets. I like my pets cuddly, no feathery. Even when I got to zoos or indoor places with birds flying around, I always keep an eye open to make sure they don’t get too close. Oh and there was the one time I came home to my apartment after a night of birthday drinking to find a bat in the kitchen. It was like a scene out of a sitcom.
Anyone else have a fear like this? Have you ever had to leave a room or place or walk across the street because of something you were afraid of? Or better yet, have you ever had to run away screaming like a 6 year old?
Tags: fears bees birds bats
Written by: chad
April 21st, 2008 at 12:34 pm
Terrified of oversized objects! Terrified. Like the great big glasses and pencils and stuff like that? Wigs me dead out. Can’t even touch it. I know, freaky.
April 21st, 2008 at 2:00 pm
my sister is horribly terrified of peaches. like “maury Povich Cotton man” scared. I never knew the depth of it until recently. I got a peach iced tea and she got very fidgety until I proved it didnt have skin. seems the fuzzy skin makes her hands sweat and her feet tingle. I kinda feel bad all the sneak attacks I did to her during the summer when the really hairy ones were available.
I’m phobic of getting spilters or tacks in my feet. i used to get spilters all the time but never traumatic.
April 21st, 2008 at 4:05 pm
@Missybw Thats not the first time I’ve heard that from someone. Luckily, I imagine you don’t come across those things very often.
@eLiz I hate tomatoes, but I wouldn’t say I’m afraid of them. Will she eat something peach flavored then?
April 21st, 2008 at 6:29 pm
no dice on flavoring either. she almost broke up with her bf (well as of *today* her husband) when he pulled a game of “peach chase”. he was baffled when she was reduced to tears.
she was the one who made the “maury povich” analogy, not me.
April 22nd, 2008 at 7:22 am
I am terrified of monsters. Whenever I hear noises in the dark (I’m also afraid of the dark) or I am in the shower and hear something (I am TERRIFIED OF SHOWERS/BATHROOMS), I immediately picture a monster of some sort.
Most of the time, when in the bathroom, it is one of the Japanese Ring/Grudge-esque small children (or young women) with long hair and unnatural voices. When I am in the dark, it is much more of the goblin-y monsters with the long fingers and large bodies.
I have a lot of unnatural fears. I think it’s because of the volume of horror movies I watch. I love horror movies more than any other genre. I watch as many as I can, and even the horrible ones tend to stick with me.
Poltergeist 3. That is the movie that started it all. It’s also the movie that began my fear of bathrooms. There is a scene where the babysitter is putting on makeup in the bathroom, and she sees something in the mirror. It has stuck with me forever. Who knows? Maybe it’s the reason I don’t wear makeup! I can’t explain how much this movie has stuck with me, and been the foundation for my irrational fears.
April 22nd, 2008 at 3:39 pm
You won’t want to drop by my place then. We’ve got some carpenter bees, and they’re like bumble bees, but they bore into the wood of your house. Very hard to kill too. Only the queen stings though and she basically never comes out (of the wood of your house anyway!).
April 23rd, 2008 at 5:34 am
@eLiz Well that is just weird then. I’ll have pizza sauce, just not the chunk tomato kind.
@Tara Do you just get spooked, or are seriously afraid of children pouring out of drains?
@jasonegan Doesn’t matter that they don’t sting. Just the sight of bees is enough to make me leave a room.
April 23rd, 2008 at 6:02 am
I’m scared of dogs like you are bees.
April 25th, 2008 at 10:20 am
Coming out of the drain would be a: rats or b: Tim Curry as Pennywise in It. No, the scary children/women are outside the shower, either in the mirror or just waiting outside the curtains.
April 28th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
Your car breaking down without any protection or cell phone is pretty scary.
April 28th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
Especially in a secluded or shady area.
May 6th, 2008 at 11:31 am
I’m like Tara. I have a lot of horror movie fears (despite never watching horror movies - well, that’s WHY I don’t watch them).
Bees are okay by me, and definitely birds. Beetles and spiders are way pushing it though.
And the thought of internal parasites wigs me out like nobody’s business. I could definitely write a long list of fears.