It wasn’t a carnival, it was a candy themed amusement park, and one of the stands was “make your own lolipop”, and I wasn’t looking, and fuck - I got stung on my tongue by a wasp.
That’s probably the easiest connection for me to make if I had been part of that conversation.
It’s not a “hack” per se, but at least I got lots of free icecream following. Until my parents got to thinking that ice cubes are free…