I've only been stung once, by a bee.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure I've been stung once by a bee and that's it. It put me right off bees, though, I tell you what! I had this notion that they won't sting you if you don't bother them (probably mostly true), but the way I implemented that was by completely freezing any time I saw a bee, until it flew away. I still have to remind myself that I don't actually have to do that.

I did the completely freezing thing, too. I was stung by a bee at age five when one accidentally got caught in my sweater and I panicked.

I do not do grates, either. I can barely walk across a bridge with a grate. Solid, please.

I have been stung twice by wasps. Once it was between my body and my arm, and when I put my arm down, it stung me. The other time, I was sitting in a field of clover that was being swarmed and got stung. It wasn't a big deal either time, and I am not bothered by bees/wasps at all. I usually just ignore them until they go away.

I don't really do nature, much. The one time I was stung was by a sweat bee, at a funeral once. ...now I can't remember WHOSE funeral. I feel like it might've been my grandfather's, except I also feel like I was older (13?), so maybe it was a great aunt or uncle's...there were a number of those, at one point (both my grandmother and grandfather had like, six brothers and sisters, who were married, and they all started dying off around the same time...)

Oh for fuck's sake, WaPo. Seriously, with all the shit going on and everything Obama's talking about and you're using your question to ask about A-Rod?

ETA: Also, sweat bees?

Yeah, what's a sweat bee?

Eight years! Eight years! (You know you wanted to say it, man.)

Civility and rational argument. What a concept. Er, I do wish you the best with that.

Oh my god, I'm seriously having an Obamagasm here. Calling people on their bullshit. Correcting the record when questions come packaged with faulty assumptions. I never knew it could be like this!