I just killed a wasp...
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 8:58 pm
...all by myself.
One just flew in through my window while I was replying to Lizards ash/stew comment. It's fucking twenty to one in a morning for fucks sake! What are wasps doing up at this hour?
I'm all on my own this week. Now, I've been in the services, I've had Thai boxing fights, and I've even got an Alsatian in a headlock once that had hold of my mates leg.....................but wasps.............I'm fucking petrified of the little bastards.
Anyway, it was in my bedroom. No girlfriend, mum or sister around so I had to stand up and be a man.
14 squirts of the flyspray and it finally died. It was fucking fast though! You'd think with em being cold blooded they'd be a little slow at night. It was one of those wasps that don't buzz as well. A 'stealth' fighter. I spayed it and it dived under the bed. I couldn't see or hear it even though my senses were on full alert.
With my heart thumping in my chest, hands shaking and sweat pouring into my eyes, I moved the covers.............nothing. Maybe it crawled to the window? I slowly edged forward, constantly checking my flanks......nothing. Turned around to go back towards the door and it dive bombed me!
I ducked and squirted at the same time, direct hit! While it was disorientated I jumped over a chair and got to the door. Mesmerised by the lightbulb, it was trying to shake off my counter attack, but my ringcraft kicked in. I wasn't going to let it clear it's head and recover. I moved in fast, spraying the little shit once, twice, three times before it flew away, straight into the window, and bounced onto the carpet. Struggling now, it flew at me again, but only as high as my knee.......it was weakining. I shuffled backwards in a fashion Mohammed Ali would have approved of and sprayed it twice on the retreat......
...it was all but over. Squirming on the carpet, and turning in circles, like a delusional dog suffering from rabies, and chasing it's tail. Can of flyspray at the ready, I brought my foot down and and made everything dark. It was done, and euphoria engulfed my very being.........I am a man.
One just flew in through my window while I was replying to Lizards ash/stew comment. It's fucking twenty to one in a morning for fucks sake! What are wasps doing up at this hour?
I'm all on my own this week. Now, I've been in the services, I've had Thai boxing fights, and I've even got an Alsatian in a headlock once that had hold of my mates leg.....................but wasps.............I'm fucking petrified of the little bastards.
Anyway, it was in my bedroom. No girlfriend, mum or sister around so I had to stand up and be a man.
14 squirts of the flyspray and it finally died. It was fucking fast though! You'd think with em being cold blooded they'd be a little slow at night. It was one of those wasps that don't buzz as well. A 'stealth' fighter. I spayed it and it dived under the bed. I couldn't see or hear it even though my senses were on full alert.
With my heart thumping in my chest, hands shaking and sweat pouring into my eyes, I moved the covers.............nothing. Maybe it crawled to the window? I slowly edged forward, constantly checking my flanks......nothing. Turned around to go back towards the door and it dive bombed me!
I ducked and squirted at the same time, direct hit! While it was disorientated I jumped over a chair and got to the door. Mesmerised by the lightbulb, it was trying to shake off my counter attack, but my ringcraft kicked in. I wasn't going to let it clear it's head and recover. I moved in fast, spraying the little shit once, twice, three times before it flew away, straight into the window, and bounced onto the carpet. Struggling now, it flew at me again, but only as high as my knee.......it was weakining. I shuffled backwards in a fashion Mohammed Ali would have approved of and sprayed it twice on the retreat......
...it was all but over. Squirming on the carpet, and turning in circles, like a delusional dog suffering from rabies, and chasing it's tail. Can of flyspray at the ready, I brought my foot down and and made everything dark. It was done, and euphoria engulfed my very being.........I am a man.