Rant number 66
Today on the way home from work, the subject of useless to human animals and insects came up. There are just hundreds of them - there really are, and today I have chosen these for my subject of annoyance.
Paramount among these then: the wasp.
Firstly, it is a doppelganger of the Bee, a noble honey producing creature, prone to violence only when threatened and in defense of its peers and Queen. For this - it must give up its poor little bee life.
Then there are its other traits: Yellow & black suited, it hangs around you at all the most inconvenient moments, flapping around you in order to create annoyance and instill fear (not to mention trying to get its greedy mitts on whatever sweet treats you are trying to enjoy). It is a perpetual thug, stinging at its leisure as many times as its angry little heart wishes - what a wanker.
They don't seem to do it for defense of their friends/colleagues/relations. I swear they do it for fun - they really do.
There nests are useless to us - made from paper (regurgitated from tree sap,) other than possibly as an inspiration to pretentious contemporary artists or architects.
Yes, to gardeners they are useful. They eat aphids and other small plant eating creatures - acting as a rudimentary pesticide that flies around doing its own thing. As a non gardener however - this is of little interest and, in these modern times - there are plenty of ways to kill bugs that don't fucking sting me!
I have been stung by a wasp and it hurt, and for that reason alone, I would happily commit all wasps to a parallel dimension - in which all creatures had a skin too thick to allow the entry of their stingers.
That will show the fuckers!
I hate bloody wasps. I wish they would go away and - as the warmer weather beckons, I feel that there annoying buzzing presence will soon be here again.
Bastards
Rant over.
I am with you all the way on this one. Can't stand the little buggers!
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