I Digress #9 - I'll take a big black Bee to go, please, and can you make that super-sized?

A few years back I was out shopping for several hours, which seriously (despite my being a girl) is my LEAST favorite thing to do! ewww, shopping!! I was exhausted and worn out and realized I was STARVING! I decided I was too tired to go home and make something for dinner, so I stopped at a place I frequented a LOT back then... Jack in the Box! mmmmmmm!! Their Tacos are disgustingly delicious!!


I pulled up to the drive thru Menu and even though I knew EXACTLY what I was going to order because I always got the same thing every single time, I still asked for a minute to look over the menu.. just in case I wanted to go out on a limb and order something DIFFERENT!!!!


I think the guy came on the speaker like 2 or 3 times to ask me if I was ready to order. I figured, eh.. there's no one behind me so I took my time. After 5 minutes of looking over the menu, I decided to get MY USUAL!! hahaha... I told the guy I was ready to order. He seemed relieved. Just when I went to talk... to my HORROR... A GIGANTIC BLACK BEE started buzzing around the menu and flew right up to my window!!!



Some of you already KNOW that I hate bugs, spiders, and INSECTS!!! ESPECIALLY the kinds that defy the laws of GRAVITY such as this huge black bee that was now staring me in the face!! - I IMMEDIATELY PANICKED and I screamed.. right into the speaker!!! The guy on the speaker, said.. "Ma'am? Are you alright?" I was frantically trying to roll up my window, but it was taking its sweet time rolling up!! I felt vulnerable! I was so frightened because the bee was so close that I could hear it buzzing and the sound seemed to be amplified by my present fear!!

He asked me again.. "Ma'am? Is everything all right?" The only response I could give the guy was a handful of unrecognizable syllables and some scattered squeaks and squeals. I could see him looking out his window up ahead but he was just far enough that the bee was not visible, so to HIM... it was as if I had just SNAPPED!! Lost it right there in the drive thru!! That poor guy, I'm sure he felt helpless as he watched me flailing inside my car. Meanwhile.. I had 4 more inches to go before my window was all the way up... I was still panicking... and still sputtering out unrecognizable sounds. I had goosebumps all over my body along with some shuttering! (I'm even cringing NOW as I recall this traumatic experience!) Just when I thought I'd get the window up in time, that dang buzzing black bee came and head butted my window near the top of the opening!! It was loud!! That of course created an involuntary scream into the microphone AGAIN! It landed on my window and it was crawling up towards the opening... It was like a race between IT and the mechanics of my car window!!

I heard the guys voice one more time in the fading distance as I literally peeled out and screamed all the way down the street, hoping that I hadn't trapped the bee INSIDE the car with me!!! My goosebumps were more like MOOSEbumps!!! The adrenaline was pumping furiously through my body. I kept patting my clothes and tussling my hair and itching my arms as my mind created sensations of that bee climbing all over me. It took me an HOUR to calm down.

I've never been back to that Jack in the Box because I've been too embarrassed to ever see that guy again! It's been a few years and I KNOW he doesn't work there any longer but STILL... *blush*