When I was in thrid grade, a friend and I were playing on the railroad tracks behind my house, little knowing we were precariously close to a bee hive. We must have upset it, because there were tons of them from out of nowhere. My friend got stung once. Me? I got stung numerous times (at least twenty). By the time I got home, there were bees in my shoes.

I'm still terrified of them to this very day.