And then there was a time I spotted lots of wasps coming out of a small hole in the mortar of my brick house. The hole was near the top of the two stories so the only way to get to it was via my longest extension ladder. I bought wasp spray at the hardware store, set up the ladder and climbed up with the spray. At least I had on goggles. When I was up there I realized I was "trapped" if the spray didn't work quickly and the wasps decided they wanted me for lunch.

I called an exterminator which probably saved me a hospital bill. He gingerly went into the far corner of the attic and applied a commercial insecticide into their nest. A week later I removed the nest which contained hundreds of dead wasps......it was as large as a basketball!! Lucky for me I didn't attempt the John Wayne approach!!