Electrical Bees and I Gotta Get 817

On one of my geocaching jaunts I pulled into the driveway of an electric substation in Broken Arrow. I was trying to figure out how to get to the next cache. If you think talking on your cell phone is hazardous while driving try operating a GPS receiver.

My friend Baloney claims that she has 816 caches. I’m way behind. I think she is lying and my friend 666BOI told her so, but I can’t be sure. So I have to catch up.

Anyway, I pulled off the road to get my bearings. I got to looking at the substation trying to figure out what is going on. I’m a chemical engineer and electricity scares the crap out of me. I mean how can something you can’t see kill you so quickly? I looked at the caution sign and it didn’t say a thing about electricity. The sign was about bees, africanized bees. What’s up with that?

I thought substations were dangerous because of gazillions of kilovolts. I thought that is why those stations hummed. It’s a sham. They are generating electricity with bees. Hey who gets the honey? Anbody tell me that!

Oh well, gotta go, busy, busy, busy, going to number 817. Put a certain Queen B in her place! Second place.

Oh by the way, its my birthday today.

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29 thoughts on “Electrical Bees and I Gotta Get 817”

  1. boxcarokie.com

    Oh by the way ….. “Happy Birthday.”

    Bad news bee’s better stay away, another prime example of man messing with nature and screwing up the system.

    BCO

  4. Tink *~*~*

    Interesting Mellow Yellow! I’ll tell ya what scares me more than electricity and bees – geocaching! What if some freak decides to plant a bomb or anthrax or is waiting in the bushes for me? I can’t even think about doing it without getting hives! =8^0

    Tink *~*~*
    Cruising the Sassagoula River

  12. Babooshka

    Happy birthday. Geocaching is raltiveky new here, but I do know where a lot of my post are, the narure reserve that’s where they have been found.

  13. Martha

    Neat! Having lived next to a power plant (Hubby was a hydro-operator) for 15 years, electricity doesn’t scare me nearly as much as the bees.
    I always thought they squeezed the electrons out of the water, who knew?

  15. Janie

    Funny post. I wonder what’s with the bees. Are there a lot of Africanized bees in OK?
    Steve sometimes studies his GPS receiver while driving. The safety factor definitely goes downhill under those conditions.
    Happy birthday to you! Hope you found your geocache!

  26. NicoleB

    This is hilarious!
    Afric. bees…..I have my hands full with crazy Hungarian bees.
    They are flying around today like freshly shot of a bow string, mpf….

    Geocaching must be fun 😀

    And hey, belated happy birthday!!!

  27. Denise

    That is a little freaky Yogi, I keep hearing tales about those African bees and I guess I have watched one too many ‘B’ movies 🙂 I have been enjoying your other posts too. Thanks also for stopping by my blog and leaving such nice comments.

  29. Baloney

    Hope you found 817!! So… you do have a competitive streak. Too bad, I’ve been really busy and am now up to #973.
    Happy Birthday, Yogi.

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