My mouth is shut!

[Phoenix Lincs]

I got stung by a wasp (I think as no actual sting was left in my face) when it got stuck in my glasses. Bl**dy hurt, and, as I've never knowingly been stung before, I spent half an hour concentrating on whether my face was swelling up.
I've also swallowed small flies recently. Gives me the heebie jeebies just thinking about it

 

[JonUK4]

i ride around a lot of fields. Think I'm averaging about 3 every hour swallowed, with another half dozen spat out. Hot weathers brought them out in swathes. Had one the other day got stuck in my throat and felt it wiggling their.

 

[Kookas]

i remember hearing or reading somewhere that on average we all eat 8 spiders in our sleep as they walk/fall in our mouths while we sleep lovely thing to remember lol

I think that was a myth.

 

[jarlrmai]

it's actually 800

 

[cd365]

I should have continued keeping my mouth shut, yesterday morning a nice big fly flew into my mouth and right down the back of my throat which I duly swallowed, spent the next couple of minutes trying not to throw up!

@CopperCyclist no I don't wear yellow. My avatar is a picture of the TDF caravane I took

 

[jefmcg]

I think that was a myth.

It's a myth.

So how did this claim arise? In a 1993 PC Professional article, columnist Lisa Holst wrote about the ubiquitous lists of "facts" that were circulating via e-mail and how readily they were accepted as truthful by gullible recipients. To demonstrate her point, Holst offered her own made-up list of equally ridiculous "facts," among which was the statistic cited above about the average person's swallowing eight spiders per year, which she took from a collection of common misbeliefs printed in a 1954 book on insect folklore. In a delicious irony, Holst's propagation of this false "fact" has spurred it into becoming one of the most widely-circulated bits of misinformation to be found on the Internet.

Read more at http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/spiders.asp#zGmkk26sZSIQXReS.99

 

[downfader]

it's actually 800

Yeah I sometimes sneak in and drop them in peoples mouths... it stops snoring.

 

[sheffgirl]

Got a fly in the eye today, and spent most of the ride trying to blow them away from my face.
I found a new peril of summer cycling whilst wearing a vest - flies in my cleavage, they're quite itchy!

 

[PlymSlimCyclist]

Having a fly in the eye is horrid, especially as you spend precious seconds navigating a roundabout, using one hand to clean out your eye and then replacing your glasses again. Bloody insects!

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Got a fly in the eye today, and spent most of the ride trying to blow them away from my face.
I found a new peril of summer cycling whilst wearing a vest - flies in my cleavage, they're quite itchy!

yep - and wait til you get the beetles that are flying around at the moment... baling them out again is erm interesting!

 

[cd365]

Cleavage, what a nightmare problem to have lol

 

[James Blackwell]

Half my trek through the country too. Mouth shut and glasses are a must. I am amazed at the mess some things make upon impact with glasses, makes me wonder what would happen if I took one of them in the eye, ouch!!
I swallowed a fly within yards of leaving work last week, 17 miles later I could still feel where I had swallowed it, yuk!!

James