Originally Posted by CPRich

Like a bee sting giving you a tiny taste of what it's like to be eaten by a lion.

A Yellowstone eruption would be a completely different scale and experience, by multiple orders of magnitude - 240 cubic miles of ejecta vs. about 1 cubic mile for their last eruptions. VEI 8 vs. 5.

Fortunately, it's not "due" for a large eruption for about 100,000 years (though extrapolations from previous periods between eruptions is pretty meaningless).