The first thing I thought of, was a summer campout my venturer crew went on a couple years ago. We went up to Lake Conasauga to fish, mountain bike, canoe, and swim. One day, we were all fishing. A buddy of mine and I put away our poles and started looking for tree branches for a game that I guess you can say it’s sort of like hockey and tag. We walked up a mountain side to look for some tree branches. After we found some, we were walking back to the hill. I saw the biggest frog ever get startled and roll down the hill. Then I had to climb over a fallen tree dragging a branch. My foot sank in to the ground and my ankle felt like I stepped into a briar bush. I felt about 6 sharp pricks and they were far apart. I hadn’t looked down until a second later and I saw my leg covered in yellowjackets. I had just stepped into their nest. At that moment, my leg was on fire. For me, this wasnt really funny. but everyone else started to laugh from what they heard and from what happened next. Everyone else was about twenty five feet down the hill fishing. They heard me yell out about the frog that jumped out below me and my friend. Then they me say, “ow. ow. ow.. ow.” The first five or so bites that were spaced out. They all thought the frog was biting me. then they saw me running down the hill jumping up and down trying to brush yellow jackets off my leg and running away from a swarm. I ran down to the dock where they were at about to jump into the water, and one of my leaders told me that doesnt work. So while my leaders and I were quikly discussing it, the rest of the swarm caught up. and tried to bite everyone else. They sent me running down the trail to get the bugs away from them and to get away from the bugs. When I got back to the campsite, my leg was so swollen that you couldn’t really tell the difference between my calf and my ankle. They were the same size. If you don’t really find thins funny, I guess it was a “you had to be there” kind of things.
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