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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Many years ago when raking hay with an open tractor, I opened up a ground nest of either yellow jackets or some other hornet family. Even banging the tractor into high gear and screaming across the field in high gear at a stately 18 MPH wasn’t enough to stay ahead of them. I’m not sure what hurt more – getting stung or slapping myself in the head to kill them.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Many years ago when working around the house in shorts, a wasp flew up a pant leg and decided to start stinging. Again, I’m not sure what hurt more – slapping myself in the male anatomy area or getting stung. All I know is that I could have been a member of a freak show at a circus for several days. Alright, I can hear some of you guys laughing now!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D'>But, no joke. Getting hit with stingers when driving can be disastrous. Even getting a bug in an eye is serious. And for those who are seriously allergic to stings – no more needs to be said.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Alex Thomson<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Triumphs [mailto:triumphs-bounces@autox.team.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Andrew Uprichard<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, April 30, 2018 8:12 AM<br><b>To:</b> triumphs@autox.team.net<br><b>Subject:</b> [TR] Is this a first?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sunday afternoon, 5pm: after doing yard work all day, I decided to take my small-mouth TR3 out for a spin. Coming up a country road at around 80, I felt a sharp pain in my neck, followed shortly thereafter by an equally sharp pain in my chest. A wasp (or hornet, or whatever) had flown down my open-neck shirt and wasn’t happy. Neither was I !!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Trying to stop the car and extricate myself from my four-point harness while being stung must have been a hilarious picture!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Finally I pulled over and removed the little so-and-so from my abdominal wall.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I am allergic to all kinds of stings, so here I am with 4 enormous welts ranging from my neck to my navel.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>But don’t we love our little British cars <span style='font-family:Wingdings'>J</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Andrew Uprichard<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Jackson, Michigan<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>