Nature

[sasha_feather]

Me: Don't touch those, they're nettles.
Ogre_911: They're what?
Me: Nettles! They'll sting you!
Ogre_911: I've never heard of them before.
Me: Did you not go outside as a kid?
Ogre_911: Not really.

A few minutes later I am paid back for my teasing when I am stung twice by wasps after accidentally kicking a nest. Ugh, the pain is not diminishing. I think it will be an afternoon of movie watching.

Comments

[holyschist]

I actually would have grown up without encountering nettles as a kid if a) we hadn't gone to Denmark when I was six (I found out what they were the very very painful way) and b) I hadn't had grandparents in Wisconsin (this is also where I stepped in a wasp nest and miraculously did NOT get stung, unlike the time I stepped in one in Oregon). I'm not sure I ever saw nettles in Oregon.

I am not sure whether wasps or nettles are worse. :-(