Bee Movie
Trip Start
Jun 22, 2010
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Trip End
Sep 21, 2010
Mendocino, California
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Dum-de-dum....I'm just a bicyclinerina...pedal pedal...singing to myself....pedal pedal...looking a the scenery...pedal....SMACK!
When two worlds collide! At about 26 mph. No one's gonna come outta that encounter laughing (except ye may bee).
I was definitely not liable. I was on the right side of the road, clearly visible, within the speed limit. And then outta nowhere, just like Jim McDaid going the wrong way up a dual carriageway, come a whopper of a bee. He didn't see me til it was two late and he went SMACK into my eye. Well, just on the eyebrow bone.
I skreeeetched to a halt to find out WTF had hit me. It felt like I'd been shot (too dramatic??). It felt like I'd been punched in the eye. I thought for a minute it had been a stone - it wouldn't be the first time I've been pebble-dashed. But when I pulled out my little vanity mirror (as starred in the flat changing incidedt) I could see where the little "bee" had grazed my eye.
Okay. Big OWIE but i carried on. By the time I got to Garborville about 5 miles on, my sunglasses were sitting wonky on my face and my eyelid was stuck to the glass.
The faces of the people behind the pharmacy counter in Walmart is not something I'll forget too soon. They all winced, ooooo'ed, yikes'ed...one may even have giggled! Then I got some ice and sat like a beaten up saddo waiting for it to go down.
It was still VERY puffy 8 hours later. God knows how I'll look tomorrow. (Update: I looked worse and would've cried if my tear ducts hadn't swollen shut!!).
The bee fled the scene.
I had put up a pic but it was even freakin' me out so I deleted it!!
Comments
i won the competition though, right?!?
Put up the pic.!! Such a dramatic description can only be appreciated if we can see your pain.......promise we won't laugh at your misfortune.
Of course you won! You beat J's "jeez!" hands down!!
Yeah right you won't laugh! You'll have it blown up lifesize and posted to me!! Coz I'd do the same!
hey that wasnt my entry!10 rounds with Ali - float like a butterfly sting like a bee
put the pic up!
Buzzzzz offfff. I don't believe ya...
I thrid that, put the pic up......or we will get him to buzz your way again.....
I've been offline for a week, so apologies for the lack of sympathy here (although, it did sound REEEEEEEEALLY sore & I hope you feel better), but I want to know what the conversation between you, the Nut & Jay is about - were the Coughlans having a captioning competition that the rest of us poor mortals knew nothing about???? And if so, we need to see both the photo & the captions because I think that we (your audience, no less) would be better placed to judge any such competition....