Not sure if this counts or not but it’s on my mind because me and my DP (night workers) have just been in hysterics over it!
When I go on holiday mosquitoes and wasps are absolutely obsessed with me. I don’t know what it is but I definitely give out some signal that the average person doesn’t.
I was in Turkey last week with my best friend and had so many mosquito bites it looked like measles, then the wasps started…
I was on the beach and they swarmed round me, they weren’t bothering anyone else and occasionally flew round my friend and returned to me.
Every time the swarm approached I tried to move away but the beach was crowded and when people saw me approaching with my little gang of mates they were waving me away angrily.
After being shunned by half the beach I went and sat on a log by the sea, unfortunately my groupies followed and I had about 8 wasps in tow!
I wasn’t wearing perfume and had on insect repellent, they literally weren’t interested in anyone except me and I was trying to escape from them from fear of being stung.
As I sat on the log they descended on me and were surrounding me so I thought I’d run to the sea and hope they wouldn’t follow… they fucking did!
I ran into the sea with flip flops on and one got swallowed in the sand, I fell off balance and lost my flip flop.
I had my phone in my hand that I had to throw onto the beach to stop it dropping into the sea and drifting away, as I threw it I fell and lost my other flip flop.
A few people ran over to help but spotted my little wasp entourage and backed off, they decided to try to rescue my flip flops floating away instead. The beach was a bit pebbly and hurting my feet so I was struggling to stand upright or walk back to the beach.
In the end I got my flip flops back and it was all very undignified so I decided to go to the beach bar for a stiff drink to recover… of course my wasp friends tagged along.
I googled that vinegar was a deterrent so I asked for some at the beach bar, the staff didn’t speak English so I used google translate but couldn’t explain about the wasps.
The look on the bar staffs face when I applied vinegar to myself like perfume will haunt me forever 😂😂. They nodded like it was a perfectly reasonable thing to do but I spotted the side-eye looks and heard the sniggering.
The only thing that stopped the mortification was that the vodka and coke and the vinegar actually helped and my little stripey pals pissed off to pester someone else!
I thought it was a fluke but the next day I went to the pool bar for a drink and all the wasps that were merrily hanging around the sugary drinks and lager tap ambushed me and I had to beg for more vinegar and have another embarrassing situation with the staff staring as I “applied” it.
The only positive was that I didn’t get stung, now I’m a bit worried the wasps thought I was one of their gang and part of their flock 😂.