There was a wasp in the Beetle this morning.<\/p>\n
I didn’t notice until I was half a mile from home. I was on Oak Road, minding my own business, when a wasp comes out of nowhere and begins beating furiously against the (closed) driver’s side window.<\/p>\n
Startled, I cracked open both windows in the hope that the wasp would fly out when I came to a stop at an intersection ahead.<\/p>\n
It did not. Instead, it stayed on the lining of the car’s interior, near the window but not moving, as if it were scared to death.<\/p>\n
I had to stop at Royal Farms for some gas, and there I used my car’s ice scraper (thrown in the back seat) to pry it lightly off the lining and set it free outside.<\/p>\n
I have no idea if the wasp will find its way home. It could fly; it’s only about three miles from my apartment complex. But it may well die, an interloper in another wasp colony’s territory.<\/p>\n
Whatever happens to the wasp, it’s no longer in the Beetle. That’s the important thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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