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I just touched a dead wasp!

26 replies

bonkersbirdie · 30/10/2021 23:14

I have a guilty secret when it comes to socks.

DH gets about 3 or 4 packs every birthday/Christmas and consequently has a LOT of socks. So when I fold the washing I just put the socks in a big shopping bag. And they accumulate. My record in one sitting is 37 pairs of socks

If the giant sock bag isn't handy they tend to get put in a pile on the chest of drawers at the top of the stairs. With the odd teatowel that has made it up by accident.

Things have been a tad hectic of late and so a certain pile of socks has been there for several weeks with a teatowel mixed in. Just scared the life out of myself when I was smoothing out the teatowel to fold it up again and a dried up crispy wasp fell out of it.

So that will teach me not to leave socks and teatowels lying around in autumn.

What's you're guilty secret when it comes to that one job you can't stand?

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lljkk · 30/10/2021 23:16

How many pairs of socks does your DH actually wear out each year?

meltingappointment · 30/10/2021 23:18

Why can't he just put his own socks away Confused

YoungGiftedPlump · 30/10/2021 23:19

What's you're guilty secret when it comes to that one job you can't stand?

Pardon?

The whole story makes no sense?
Why is a dead wasp a guilty secret?
Why do you support a man child you cant sort his own socks?
Why do people buy him socks? Does he have no personality?

Duckypoohs · 30/10/2021 23:19

Is that you Sharon?

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bonkersbirdie · 30/10/2021 23:19

more than you'd think @lljkk !
He walks over 20,000 steps a day at work so they're often pretty threadbare. And I have to physically remove them from his feet to get them into a bin even when they have holes. Otherwise he just puts them in the wash again!

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Bringonthepjs · 30/10/2021 23:21

37 pairs of socks? Wtaf?

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bonkersbirdie · 30/10/2021 23:24

@meltingappointment we share out jobs. He does bins, cooks, school runs, dirty dishes. I do washing. If I'm honest he probably does more round the house than I do.

@YoungGiftedPlump the wasp isn't a guilty secret it just freaked me out as a result of my laziness when it comes to pairing socks. Yes he has a personality but most of his hobbies can't be wrapped up and put under a tree. It's become a running joke and it would be disappointing if there were not socks for Christmas.

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PlanDeRaccordement · 30/10/2021 23:26

I see your wasp and raise you a moon rock?

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bonkersbirdie · 30/10/2021 23:27

What is a moon rock and why were you touching it? From the actual moon?

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PlanDeRaccordement · 30/10/2021 23:36

Yes a rock from the moon, perk of being involved in space program.
As a child had wanted to be first person (and woman) on Mars. But happy to have at least touched a rock not from Earth. Maybe in my next life.

HerRoyalNotness · 30/10/2021 23:44

We also have touched moon rock. It was very…rock like

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bonkersbirdie · 30/10/2021 23:46

Now moon rock is a Christmas present that DH would like more than socks. I bet it's astronomically expensive though.

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Cloudandsunshine · 30/10/2021 23:51

Same here, oh won't throw out socks so they just keep accumulating. One of the many things that drive me mad to be honest

RumJerrySailorRum · 30/10/2021 23:52

I buy one of my brothers socks every Xmas.

They are very fucking expensive apparently much looked forward to.

He's neither sad or boring.

Misses point of thread.

Anoisagusaris · 30/10/2021 23:55

I don’t this at all.

Are you saying you haven’t been near the socks in a while, hence the wasp? Or are you freaked by a dead wasp? Still loads of wasps here so I’m not really sure what you are on about.

PlanDeRaccordement · 30/10/2021 23:58

Were all the socks there OP? Could a pack of wasps carried an odd sock off and the dead wasp have been left behind?

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bonkersbirdie · 31/10/2021 00:05

@Anoisagusaris both - the socks were neglected and yes freaked out by the presence of dead wasp. There's not that many live wasps up here at this time of year they're pretty much all gone. But it was more the unexpected appearance of the wasp that freaked me out rather than it's existence. It was hiding and surprised me.

@PlanDeRaccordement I'll be honest - I was just moving the socks into the sock bag. I haven't actually paired them up yet. That may be how I choose to spend the extra hour gifted to us tomorrow. I know how to live. I might actually throw a party for the wasps if they did steal all the socks and leave me to start fresh. I have too many odd ones that I can't throw out in case it's pair turns up one day...

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InViewoftheFew · 31/10/2021 01:52

Last week a wasp had got into DH's trousers (which were in the wardrobe) and stung his leg when he put them on. No socks involved though.

Dishhh · 31/10/2021 06:00

A dead wasp? I saw something hanging off a bush, grasped it with my hand to pull it closer and investigate it further (I'm a bit short-sighted), and to my horror saw angry buzzing poisonous darts speed towards me. Almost instantly I felt one, two, three, four, five stings of what felt like hot acid deep into my arm and shoulder.

What I'd innocently tried to pick off the bush was a paper wasp nest - this has a Schmidt pain index scale of 3. Yep, it hurt, but I was stupid.Blush

Letsallscreamatthesistene · 31/10/2021 06:24

Touching a dead wasp is....fine?? Or is there some disease I should know about?

As for peeling your husbands threadbare socks from his feet....no.

overnightangel · 31/10/2021 06:30

@meltingappointment

Why can't he just put his own socks away Confused
Grown ups offer share out household tasks
Bimblybomeyelash · 31/10/2021 06:39

I don’t understand why unpaired socks in a drawer are any more at risk of wasps
Than paired socks in another drawer?

HomeSliceKnowsBest · 31/10/2021 06:48

I just don't get this at all.

longwayoff · 31/10/2021 07:17

Buy all socks in one colour. No need to pair them, just throw them in a bag or drawer. No wasps either.

Nutrigrainygoodness · 31/10/2021 07:22

I'll raise you one alive gross wasp story.

I was chatting to a mum from dds old primary school, I put my hand on dds shoulder and felt something gooey/soft, so I picked it up (I hadn't even looked at what it was at this point) and I was rolling it around my fingers while chatting. About 3 mins later I stopped and just had hold of this thing between my thumb and finger and I felt legs, I dropped it and looked down and there was a very disgruntled wasp on the floor.