My Day As A Cyclops

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   So it turns out that bees can sting.

   Normally bees in migratory swarms are very docile. Normally under any conditions one would be safe three floors below bee activity. However, one of the bees today apparently didn't get the memo on that and dive bombed my face and stung me in the eyebrow.
   Normally stings to one's head actually less bad than other areas. I imagine its because one's body puts a very high priority on keeping things under control around one's head. Stings near one's eye can cause ridiculous swelling, but this one was pretty much in my eyebrow, so I figured I'd forget about it in ten minutes.
   In ten minutes I noticed it was getting unusually puffy. After this job we had an hour until our next job so we parked in a park and I took a nap.. when I woke up I could only open one eye!
   For two or three hours I had to make do without depth perception until the swelling started to subside again for my left eye to come back on line.

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   When I first started working at Bee Busters there was another assistant technician who got a similar sting. The next day he didn't show up for work and we never saw him again.


   Sometime while I wasn't around between last year and this they had an assistant technician named Raoul. Raoul made sure his uniform was always several sizes too large, and refused to ever wear a veil because he thought he was hardcore. No one liked him very much.
   One day he got one of these eye-swelling stings. When one of the technicians asked boss Dave what happened, Dave said "oh he mouthed off to me so I decked him." And knowing how things are, the technician believed this for a week until he was told otherwise (there's a hole in the wall of the garage from when Dave got mad about something - not one of us though)
   Shortly, Raoul got fired. He now works for our competitor, "the Bee Man."


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Comments

[basicallyasap.livejournal.com]

um I hate to break it to you, but it looks like your are squinting one eye. Sorry, from your voice message description I pictured a lot worse.

[emosnail.livejournal.com]

)= well it WAS much worse. I took this one when it was just beginning to swell.. later it was swelled closed for two to three hours. )= don't hate )=

[pavel-lishin.livejournal.com]

Damn, you should have taken the picture in full cyclops mode. :(

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[basicallyasap.livejournal.com]

No no no, I don't hate! I just was picturing people looking at this and being like, "is he trying to wink?" Haha, I'm sorry, I'm such a bad person. I was really worried though, I called you the minute I listened to your message after work in a panic of sorts.

[slosha.livejournal.com]

you look like you are unsuccessfully trying to seduce us from the screen.