The Bees Can Stay – If They Keep Away | Abigail Asher

Abigail Asher The Bees Can Stay—If They Keep Away

I don’t like bees. I’ve never liked bees. I know they’re important to the environment. I know we need to save them. But. I still don’t Like them. They terrify me. As a child, bees, the big fat kind, carpenter bees, lived in the wood frames of the porches of my childhood homes. My mom would tell me how harmless they are. As if that was supposed to make me feel better. They’re big and loud and would chase me. Once, in a Walmart there was a small little bee He terrorized everyone waiting in line. He stung me. On the neck. And I cried and cried. I have a vendetta—a grudge towards them! I don’t like bees. I’ll never like bees. no matter how well they pollinate my flowers.