When I was younger and started being pestered by a wasp, I ran away from it as fast as I could. People very condescendingly told me “if you stay still, it won’t bother you 🤓”. Then I’d later hear these same people mention how they were recently stung by a wasp. I am now an adult and still avoid wasps. People still condescendingly tell me the same thing. I ask them if they have ever been stung and they quite proudly tell me they have. I’ve never been stung. I don’t see the logic of sitting still eating an ice cream while a wasp buzzes around you, and that somehow doesn’t agitate the wasp.

I can understand why swatting would aggravate them. But not running. Running has always worked for me