When I was very young (say 3,4) I woke up one morning to an odd feeling, like someone was lightly pushing a scratchy qtip into my ear. Confused, I went to feel it, and immediately felt a sharp pain. A large mud dauber wasp had found its way into my ear, and didn't appreciate me pawing at it with my tiny hands. My ear swelled up to about three times its normal size, and my family called me Dumbo for about a month.