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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 21:31:27 -0700
From: Elizabeth Garner <eliz@eskimo.com>
Subject: wasp in the beehive hairdo

On Jun 12, 11:54am, Bruce Tindall wrote on the

} Subject: Re: Mexico Institutes Death by Guillotine }
} The UL connection is the "spiders in the beehive hairdo" with its } implicit criticism (as "vain") of a currently-fashionable women's } hairstyle. Am I six degrees away from my original subject yet?

Well, here's where a vanity hairstyle got me one day:

My hair wasn't quite a beehive, but it was poofed (technical jargon) on top, pinned in a twist in the back, and held together with a couple cans of hairspray. Wearing this creation, I'm driving down the road, window down on a nice warm afternoon, when a wasp flies into the car, lands on my coiffure, breaks through the hairspray barrier and STARTS CRAWLING AROUND ON MY SCALP WITH ITS NASTY LITTLE WASPY FEET!!

(Damn! Gives me the creeps years later just thinking about it.)

Anyway, I didn't have any means to get the bug out without running a greater risk than the peril I was already in of getting stung, so I pulled over to the side of the road to await my fate, wondering about the side-effects of getting stung so close to my by then quite excited brain.

After only two or three months of sitting there like that, the bastard FINALLY flew off, and I went home to strong drink.

So, no, it wasn't spiders, but, yes, it really did happen to someone *you* know.