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Just Taking The Wind Right Out Of My Sails

August 23, 2006 By Jenny Ryan 4 Comments

Today, I was attacked by nature.

I was outside, doing my part to be a good neighbor and bring the trash can back down to the house, when suddenly I noticed an odd sensation in my right hand.

So I looked down and discovered that half of my right hand was entirely covered in fire ants, and the “odd sensation” was actually THE BURNING PAIN OF THEIR FLAMING, VENOMOUS BITES!

Not surprisingly (for someone with a severe anxiety disorder, I mean), I’ve spent this entire day manically flexing my hand to make sure I haven’t lost any mobility in my muscles, and wondering if there is any such thing as “Fire Ant Anti-Venom” and should I really be making more of an effort to find some, along with trying really hard not to freak out and envision their poison slowly yet relentlessly traveling up my arm in order to wreak its deadly havoc throughout my entire body.

So I just emailed this beautifully crafted story of my day to a friend of mine, and do you know his response was? “Be thankful, because when I get bitten by fire ants, I can die.”

Thanks, dude. Way to completely eliminate All Dramatic Impact Whatsoever from my story.

And don’t even get me started on the conversation I just had with another male friend who, when I gently suggested that women might possibly have had more of a role in the shaping of our history than would be suggested by the traditional, “accepted” textbooks, went off on a rant against “revisionist” history, where clearly “revisionist” was a code word for “fascist, communist, anti-American, mother-hating, puppy-killing, Nazi brainwashing propaganda.”

Geez! What does a girl have to do around here to get a friendly audience?

Filed Under: Grin And Bear It, Playing Well With Others, Wild Kingdom

Comments

  1. yoshi says

    August 24, 2006 at 12:08 am

    But i’m thinking you’re ok now though right? Hope you’re ok. 🙂

  2. CRSE says

    August 24, 2006 at 2:34 am

    See…now fireants are serious business. Nobody should be minimizing the fire-ant situation! I REALLY hope you are ok. Please keep us posted! And I dont know if something was in the air today but I also ended up in a stupid argument trying to explain to a man that there is a difference between the million man march and “white pride”. I knew it was a bad sign when i had to define the term “dominant paradigm”….

  3. Administrator says

    August 25, 2006 at 8:18 am

    Thanks for all your good thoughts. I am OK-itchy, but OK.

  4. Norma says

    August 26, 2006 at 5:14 pm

    My brother gave up golfing in FL because of fireants. They sent him to the ER.

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