maybe she should have said it was 60000 bees then?

That is a very young age to experience not being believed by parents. The poor kid, I hope she's not traumatised. It's surprising the things that can mark us.

They’re in the walls… oh god… they’re in the walls!

Maybe she should have said it was a $20,000 bill.

Well, children aren't very good at telling the difference between real and fantasy. At least I'm fairly sure my nephew isn't actually Iron Man. Believing everything they say would be gullible at best, stupid at worst. And seriously, this won't be traumatizing because adults didn't believe the kid.

Paying $20,000? I'll take my chances with the bees.

Every time I see something that says bees I immediately think of Arrested Development.

Beads.
Bees?
Beads!
Beads?!

I once bought a mousetrap with my pocket money and caught the mouse, my parents didn't believe was in my bedroom.

$3 per bee

$3 per bee

More like $1 per 3 bees.

yeah

Still quite expensive.

yeah inflation is rough man. I remember when you could get 8 or 9 bees per dollar

Neither of us can say that for sure because we don't have the necessary details. Internalisation is no myth, and it's very hard to work with when kids are pre-verbal or have low vocabulary. There are some good books on child (and adult) psychology that explain it better than I will here.

You can have an actual monster removed for that kind of money

There are some good books on child (and adult) psychology that explain it better than I will here.

But there's this other book that says to ignore them and beat them when they're too annoying to ignore. It's called the bibble or something. Jeezus wrote it.

there are always bees in the banana stand.

I used to hear scratching in my bedroom walls at night when I was a kid.

My dad said it was probably red squirrels but to me, it was demons trying to claw their way through a portal.

I dontnhave any VEOs living in my walls though

Wah? Who's this Jeezus person? Must've known my parents because... well I just want to smack 'em upside the head.

33¢ per bee is crazy.

The monsters are real, and they are us 60 kilobees

https://youtu.be/PYtXuBN1Hvc

Back then, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. "Gimme five bees for a quarter", you'd say.

How much could one bee removal cost, Michael?

I'm one of those kids. Either we're over explaining people pleasers or the trauma turned us into monsters.

I think I know what you mean. That inner flurry can have a silent persistence that pushes us one way or the other, but doesn’t let us rest. Have you found anything that helps?

I just had wasps burrow their way into the side of my house and chew down through the ceiling of my first floor bathroom. That very particular and unnerving scratching noise is fucking burned into my brain.

Not yet :(

Back in the day it used to only be 5¢ per bee

Forgive me for offering unsolicited advice, but one-to-one therapy with a psychodynamic trained (or other modality) therapist can really help.

In parallel, meditation can help to overcome a certain amount of the uncomfortable feelings. I can share an inspiring documentary with you on the latter.

It's crazy that insurance didn't pay for it because they deemed it "preventable".

I think kids usually start speaking earlier than that.

Not enough to diagnose their inner state with a standard therapist.

AND they let you keep the honey.

My god man! You need booze!

Why would you need to pay for bee removal? Local beekeepers will do it for free in my neighborhood.

I can tell this wasn't written by bees.

suckers living in the city.

Got to open up the walls, clean the honey residue, removing the hive, and rebuild the walls. Getting rid of the bees is the easiest part.

When I was a kid I told my mom about something scary out the window. The didn’t believe me either. Turned out someone was on the side of the house stealing parts off some kind of electrical box.

I don’t remember this. I was told about it later.

I DO remember being afraid of windows until I was an adult.

Yeah but that’s $20k? I guess 60k bees is a lot

GOB's not on board.

Walls and shit are expensive, yeah.

$20K to open up a single wall and put it back up is not reasonable, even in a high COL area

Well? Which was it??

The other option was a data centre next door.

Was this an experiment in remote parenting or how did they not notice the bees for months?