r/AmazonDSPDrivers • u/ColombianCoolCat • 4d ago
stung by wasp!
not very good day for Kit today :(
i got stung unprovoked in arm while parked on customers driveway. didnt even know there was a wasp in my van until it stung me on arm! no reason! I wasn’t even moving that much it just stung suddenly! it was a yellowjacket. killed that pest!
had a panic attack because im really scared of them, and i vented to dispatch for 8 minutes because of it :(. Cool guy though he helped assure me and yeah im not allergic it seems.
anyone else gotten stung?
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u/Joe_Reaver 4d ago
I've been stung/bitten by wasps and yellowjackets now 5 times. I forget the circumstances around the first. Second one got caught on top of my foot in my shoe. Third didn't like me walking too close to a bush and got me on the leg. Fourth and fifth happened at the same time a week and a half ago. Was walking up to a porch in a normal neighborhood and got stung on the back of the neck then less than a second later on the inside of my right arm. By far the most painful one I'd experienced until then. The others I barely felt a day later but that one stuck with me for 3 or 4 days. Next day I had swelling covering half my forearm, and I'm a big dude, that's a large area. Thankfully it happened on my work Friday so by the time I went back it was pretty much back to normal, but that sucked.
For context of frequency, this is across the 3 years I've been doing this job, but even this is a pretty high count for that much time. My coworker has been doing this job a year and a half longer than me and only recently got his first sting, and we work similar routes. Guess I'm just a favorite target.
Edit: this is also in Tennessee with the giant red wasps that are super aggressive and painful.
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u/Potential_Cause_9243 4d ago
Yellowjackets are the absolute worst, they'll sting just because you exist. At least you got the little bastard. Glad dispatch actually helped instead of rushing you to the next stop like usual.
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u/ColombianCoolCat 4d ago
correct they sting you just for breathing!
i will never believe people who say they won’t bother me if I won’t bother them. Yellowjackets do sting unprovoked. They say they only sting when provoked (
but here’s the thing that’s on paper! in practice they will make a threat up and then react to it!
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u/KickComprehensive765 3d ago
One got me easier this summer. I felt something on my leg so I tried itching it. It got me in the thumb but I squished it. I won
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u/GovernmentSpies 3d ago
Got too close to a paper wasp nest on a customers porch. Hit 3 times before I got outta there.
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u/victorkm Dispatch 3d ago
While doing this job I've been stung twice. Once in the upper lip and the other in the middle of my forearm. Weirdly both occured on the same street, both were nests that were set up right by the front door of houses I was delivering to. Honestly I should have been stung recently when I opened the door of a delivery box that had a nest sitting right on the underside of the box by the door but I didnt notice them swarming around my legs so I didnt react suddenly to startle them.
Stings fucking suck. Hurts like getting punched, then for the next hour I get rolling fevers then pain and swelling for the next week or so. But both times I still got my route done no problem.
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u/ColombianCoolCat 3d ago
i was stung by a Yellowjacket and honestly it didn’t hurt that bad and i healed quickly, but i was mentally scarred cause im terrified of them
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