It happened after a wasp flew inside my bike helmet as I rode down the Lochside Trail from Sidney last Sunday. At first I hoped it was just a hit-and-run job, in one slit and out the other, and that I could keep pedalling.
Should you act as though she’s invisible? Make eye contact? Smile winningly? No, not the latter. I’m probably past the stage of appearing dangerous, though a solid argument could be made for creepy. Fortunately, I was able to regain my senses. “I’m Les Leyne! I’m Les Leyne!” I called after her as she sped away.
What if I went into anaphylactic shock, lurched into the path of a transport truck and was squished like a bug , leaving the world, or at least my insurance agent, to wonder why I would do such a thing. This thought choked me up — or was it the anaphylaxis? What we don’t complain about is other flying, biting insects, because there aren’t any. This is one of Victoria’s under-rated selling points: Thanks to the offshore breeze, we don’t have the clouds of mosquitoes, no-see-ums and blackflies that you find in the parts of Canada that God doesn’t love as much.
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