Macro Monday: Red Wasp!

Why do folks call these red wasps?

They look orange to me!

So I spotted this guy or gal (how can you tell?) having a field day on a rotten banana peel the other day and thought how bizarre.

Then hubby comes home with the most insane story:

That morning, he put on his reeboks and felt a little lump in his shoe but didn't bother to see what it was and headed to his dental appointment. Can you guess where this story is headed?

At the dentist, he felt the lump in a different spot in the shoe...

Went to lunch and felt the lump in yet another spot...

Went to school for awhile and still felt the lump in the shoe...

Finally, after several hours of a lumpy shoe, hubby had enough and took off the shoe...

Guess what fell out???

Yep, a red wasp!!!

Can you imagine? A red wasp in a shoe for hours and no stings! No doubt the wasp was in a weakened state from the stench. ;o)

I asked hubby if he shrieked like a girl but he said he was too astounded but not too astounded to squash the wasp flat. That's gratitude for you. Poor wasp...

Do you check your shoes before putting them on? What is the weirdest thing you've found in a shoe? Do you walk around with a lumpy shoe or do you rid yourself of the offending lump immediately?

I can't stand a lump in my shoe so I get it out immediately. We have brown recluse spiders so I always check my shoes before putting them on. Really, I don't know what hubby was thinking.

(Tuesday edit: Actually, I've figured it out. Hubby was too lazy to see what was in the shoe and kept hoping it would just flatten-- he is a man, after all.) ;o)

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