Friday, April 10, 2026

Another Attempt Thwarted?

I was at the kitchen table Thursday morning, on the phone with The Pony about our Errand Day, when I saw a WASP buzz past my face!

"I've gotta go! I need the flyswatter. A wasp is sitting on the window trim over my shoulder. I'm sure Dad let it in this morning to kill me! Talk to you later!"

That dang wasp was HUGE. At least two inches long. It clung to the window trim, probably rubbing its hands in glee, while I went to the cutting block to retrieve a flyswatter that hangs on a hook from its metal frame. I crept back and 

WHAP!

One quick, forceful swat, and that wasp fell to the flat top of a little container I have sitting under the window. I grabbed half a Puffs With Lotion (already torn in half, because I am miserly and don't use a whole tissue when a half works just fine) and scooped up the wasp, squishing as I did so. Then I took him to the toilet and flushed him.

CRUSHED and FLUSHED!

That's the only way to get rid of such an unwelcome guest! I don't trust them. Many a time (before I gained some sense) I have swatted a wasp, and put it in the wastebasket, only to see it later buzzing around the Mansion again! Or my $17,000 house. They don't stay dead! It's like you can crunch them, folded upon themselves like origami, and still they come back to life. 

I really hope this one doesn't miraculously reanimate, and swim up from the toilet at a time when I am... um... indisposed!

4 comments:

Hot Diggity Dog said...

I have experienced bugs having more than one life myself! It is annoying.

River said...

I am similarly miserly with dishwashing sponges. I found a sponge quickly becomes grubby only in the center and felt bad about throwing away an entire smelly sponge when the edges were still good. So now I take them out of the pack and cut them all in half.
I crush and flush too, but usually there is a little bleach in the water which helps things stay dead as I flush.

Hillbilly Mom said...

Kathy,
Bugs are as annoying as men! And you can't even use them to do manual labor.

Hillbilly Mom said...

River,
It's always good to double the use of something! And to have an additional plan in place to promote certain demise of insects.