Stung, but not by a bee

Have you ever been stung by a human? I know that’s a weird question, but I’m pretty sure I was stung by a human once. By my step-sister.

Just a little background. She was 18 and I was 25 when my dad met her mom.  She alternated between flirting and acting as if we had grown up together as brother and sister. The latter was okay, the flirting was weird. I never reacted to it one way or the other. I just acted as if she had said nothing. My brothers blushed...that egged her on.

We're not friends, but we’re friendly when we’re in the same place—always as members of large gatherings. Except once. A few months after my dad passed away, my step-mother asked my wife and me to visit her in Florida to help sort his things. My wife helped her in the morning while I took care of some estate details.  Then the 3 of us worked on sorting in the afternoon. We took her and her daughter out to dinner that evening and then sat and talked for a while back at her condo.

When it was time for us to head to our hotel, we started exchanging half-hugs to say goodbye. When my step-sister got to me I could see that instead of the standard fake kiss on the cheek, she was zeroing for a kiss on the lips. My reflexes were good. I turned my head to the left so quickly and so hard she ended up planting a kiss just below my right ear. When she did that it felt like I had been stung by a bee.  Ouch!!! 

On the way to the car I told my wife about the sting and she laughed—thinking I was joking. We stopped at a convenience store on our way to the hotel and in the light my wife could see that my neck was red and splotchy just below my right ear—and it looked like there was a prick in the skin.  It burned.

I washed the spot as soon as we got to the hotel. Then I turned to my wife and said, “OMG, she bit me…now I’m going to live forever!!!” Well, I seem to be continuing to age and I didn’t develop a lust for blood, so there seems to be no long-term side-effect from the sting. =)

But does anyone know what she did to me—or how she did it? How does a human “sting” someone???  It was not a static electricity shock, that wouldn't have left my neck splotchy.  And while her lipstick/gloss could possibly have cause a reaction on my skin, it shouldn't have felt like a sting.  Very strange!


PS - This is another repeat post.  :)