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I haven't personally been stung by a hornet, but I've heard stories and I do know people who have been. The only ones we have around where I live are Bald Faced Hornets (aka the Black and White Hornet), and they have to be removed from public spaces if they decide to house there, which is odd that they're even there in the first place because they tend to like really tall trees. There's also a specific type of hornet that we're supposed to kill on sight (and by that I mean call a professional immediately) because it's invasive to the US and will kill our honey bees (Asian Giant Hornet). This is usually only a problem at the coasts though.

I have however, been stung by a wasp. Luckily for me I did not inherit my mother's allergy to them.

I was like 7 or something, idk, but we were at this carnival fair thing and me and a bunch of other kids (I didn't know them they were just there too) were all climbing this little ladder and going down a slide. For some reason, every single one of us completely ignored the pair of wasps that seem to be treating that slide as their home. We were on that damn thing for like 10 minutes or so before one of them decided "that's it, come here you little shit" and stung yours truly.

Anyway my way of dealing with them was basically kill on sight for about a decade or so before I realized "why am I doing this, it's a living creature that isn't very dangerous and they're just minding their own business" and I just leave em be whenever they're around, unless where their nest is is a problem.