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July 01, 2008
This is a true story
A fly is loose in the kitchen. It is dive-bombing me noisily – bzzt! – while I'm trying to work on the computer. Okay, I’m not really working. I’m aimlessly reading blogs. But still.
I attempt to get him -- it, whatever -- with a rolled-up copy of New York (which is, by the way, a surprisingly terrific magazine). No luck. So I grab a bottle of the citrus spray we use to clean the counter. When my tormentor alights on the faucet, I spray. The fly hesitates, seemingly stunned, then takes off.
The next time the fly zooms past, I notice something: he is completely silent. The bzzt is gone. The fly has not been killed, only lubricated.
Posted by teb at July 1, 2008 03:55 PM