The other day it was hot. My jersey zipper was obscenely low as I rode home at around 5:30 PM.
My chest hair blowing in the wind, the little I have. I rode down the big hill. This hill is big for flat ol' Chapel Hill, it is in fact the hill referred to by the town name. I can get up to 40 mph on this hill, don't tell the cops (Speed limit is 35.) I was going 40 this day, did I mention it was hot, the breeze felt good.
To top it all off, I already had a scrape on my arm and a bruise on my leg from a prior spill. In reaching frantically for the bee in my armpit with my scabbed over arm, I managed to open that wound. I did not however manage to kill the bee that continued to sting my armpit over and over and over. That whole thing about bees stinging once then dying is horseshit by the way.
When I got to the bottom of the hill, I pulled up on the sidewalk, retrieved the bee out of my shirt and squished it. Several times.
It was still a hot 95°F, and now I was paranoid to ride with my jersey wide open, and my armpit, elbow and leg were all throbbing. But I got that bee dammit.
2 comments:
Ouch, Tabb! Sorry to hear about your mishap with the bee. I have been bitten by a horse-fly in Missouri. Them things split your skin and you bleed. That sucked too!
Have a better ride next time?
Peace :)
Ha, ha, ha! I mean... oh, I'm sorry, honey.
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