Y'all have heard the expression, "...like he had a bee in his bonnet" before. Well, now I know what that saying really means!

I was riding along in town with my helmet visor up, when I heard a loud "thunk" against my helmet. I figured it was a big bug and thought nothing more of it. I turned onto the highway, put my visor down, and cranked the throttle. I'm zipping along around 80 when I hear a loud intermittent buzzing inside my helmet. I first thought my visor wasn't closed all the way, but about that time I notice a very large black object crawling along the INSIDE of my right eyeglass lens! It was a bumblebee. I quickly shut that eye, praying the bee wouldn't sting me, and tried to calmly slow down, pull off on the gravel shoulder, open my visor and ditch my glasses. I'm sure to an observer it looked like some guy on a motorcycle having a seizure, but to me it was an eternity. By the time I got pulled over, the bee was stuck between my eyeglass frame and my eyebrow, which was now sweating quite profusely, and his buzzing was now accompanied by his wings beating against my nose and my eye. I yanked my visor open and threw my glasses into the grass about 15 feet away, but the bee was now resting on my nose. I knew there was no way to remove my full-face helmet without annoying the bee even further, so I pulled out my billfold (still with one eye closed), grabbed a credit card, and VEEEEERY gently slid it under the bee and flicked him away. Fortunately, he flew off, and all I had to do was find my glasses and the credit card, while trying to calm down for the rest of the trip. Miraculously, I didn't get stung. So, y'all "bee" careful out there.

Craig