I was talking with Friend #3, and told her that the best way to kill flies was to snap a dishtowel at them. She was dubious.
“No,” I said, “You don’ t even have to hit them, just snap the towel in their vicinity. The sonic boom created by the snapping of the towel stuns them, and they drop right out of the air.”
She continued in her dubiousness. She was consistent in her dubiosity. She developed a ‘tude of dube.
“Really,” I insisted, “I’ve seen Gary do it.”
“I don’t doubt he did it, I just doubt there was a sonic boom that stunned them.”
Well, I found backup for the sonic boom theory, but then I found no one else appears to kill flies this way. It occurred to me Gary may have just lucked out one time by snapping a towel just as an elderly fly reached the end of his days (day?), and now I’m spreading this lie. “No, really Ellen, the flies have coronary attacks brought on by the surprise. I learned it in Biology class!”
Has anyone else heard this theory?
4 responses to “No Flies on Gary”
Um…no.
Sue – well, then, Gary invented it. It does work though, and it doesn’t require great aim.
No, but I’ve heard a very satisfying way of killing mosquitoes is to let them go ahead and bite you, and then while they’re sucking on your arm, you stretch the skin taut around them so they CAN’T PULL OUT and they have to keep sucking until they explode. I’ve never done it.
TasterSpoon – I don’t know if I could resist the urge to squish first and look later, either.