When a wasp's nearby do you just stay still or flap about like a chimpanzee on acid?

Question

Also state whether you are male or female. I have a theory I want to test.

Answer 1

male, stay still. used to flap years ago till i realised they dont really hurt and i can easily kill them.

Answer 2

Female: Run like mad!

Answer 3

female: just leave it alone if you hit it it will just get pissed then have reason to sting you

Answer 4

If it is just nearby, I stand still.  If it lands on me, that is a different story.  Chimpanzee on acid is a mild description then.

Answer 5

I just carry on as normal, I don't freeze or flap!  (and I'm a girl, but I don't think there will be any correlation!)

Answer 6

I do and so does my Dad, i am badly allergic to them though and he has this bizarre skin condition which would suffer alot if he was stung.

Answer 7

I knock out some MC hammer sh*t and show the wasp moves its never seen before, then when it stops to watch, its mouth all agape in awe of my magnificent flow, i grab a cup and some item I can use as a lid and catch the stripey mo fo. Then when it realises whats happened and gets all mad, i show him the 18 wheeler and slide outta there!

Only joking. I tend to trap them under a glass and let them out without making them too mad. A lot of my friends and family do the flapping thing, but in their excitement, their aim gets all wonky and they somehow miss the wasp everytime they try to hit it. Crazy peeps!

Answer 8

female. and i tell people to stay still but if its near me a flap like a chimp :)

Answer 9

Male: Stand still, don't want to provoke it into stinging me so I wait for it to leave by itself.

Answer 10

I'm female and flap about like a chimp on acid.

By previous answers i take it the theory is that females flap around like a chimp,  

Answer 11

My secretary vanishes from the office to the next village.

Answer 12

Male: I'll capture it and study it.  Aren't they fascinating creatures??

Answer 13

female: I stay still.

I really hope you're not planning on proving women flap about like mad and men stay still. This theory is bogus. It clearly makes women out to be whimps and men more logical.

Answer 14

Well, when a white anglo saxon protestant comes around.... I flap like a Chimpanzee......because I feel like I have to fit in....

male....

Answer 15

I have a real dislike of them but I have no fear of them, I have never been stung and I will go to any lengths to swot them even chasing them down the garden.

I cleared out a friends conservatory a few weeks ago, picked up a cushion and found a nest in a chair. I found myself in an area less than 2 square metres with approx 30 of them. I have to admit that was a bit scary!  

Answer 16

female - staying cool with those jaspers.

My mother told me a story about  bees -they  never mean ot sting you and if you brush them away they die and you have to remove the sting with tweezers and it isnt easy as it goes in like a corkscrew - if you have the cool to not brush it off it can retract its sting and fly away. I like thinking about this scenario to wonder if I coudl ever do it -

Wasps seem wild and wacky creatures best just to let them get off wihtout adding to their excitement levels.

I was once stung inside the ear by a hornet in a tent at night when asleep  and it gave me a cauliflower ear as a result so if I could recognize a hornet I might be flapping about like a chimp on acid trying to bite its ratty ear.    

Answer 17

I bat them away.

Answer 18

Female

i stay still, they usually fly off after a while =)  If it's inside and buzzing against the window then i stick a glass over it, slide a postcard under the glass so it can't fly out, then throw it back outside.

Answer 19

Female. I stand still

Answer 20

I flap about, start screaming and run away, quite often leaving my children stood there looked confused!!

I am female

Answer 21

female - i just keep going. unless it buzzes by my ear. i can't stand things buzzing in my ear.  

Answer 22

I generally coax it into landing--remove my shoe, and smack it into the next life. I'm a male.

Answer 23

Neither, I swat it. After being stung several times by one as a child, then falling off my bike and breaking my hand as a result,  I have NO MERCY! Actually, this morning one casually flew in my bedroom window and did several circuits of the room. I let it out of the other window, so I must have got over my trauma, I do show some mercy occasionally. Oh, I'm female.

Answer 24

Neither..I just walk away from it.

I am a female...who is also allergic to wasps.  

Answer 25

I am female and I don't flap about, I generally ignore them, they usually go away on their own. If there is a fizzy drink on the table that they are obviously after...I move the drink!

I am not afraid of wasps and I think if you do flap and scream in front of your kids then that message is passed to your kids that the wasp is something to be feared.

I'm not afraid of spiders either.

Answer 26

Female - run away as fast as possible while flapping around at the same time i hate wasps.....YUCK

Answer 27

Just shoo it away from my food and carry on. Once it gets to more than about 20-30 of them I move inside. We have only had large numbers of wasps in the last couple of years - maybe due to our drought in some way?

Answer 28

I physically assault it.

Male.

Answer 29

I just act normal, my husband freaks out though and starts yelling kill it kill it.

Female

Answer 30

Stay still..or bat *** out of it with the nearest available object

Answer 31

female- stay still although if it lands on me then i flap around in panic.