Friday, March 21, 2008

How to kill a flying insect: Girly edition

Step 1. Wait for bug to kill self. Ask it nicely, if you must. If it refuses, ask someone else to do it, if possible.

If this fails, drastic measures must be taken.
Gather your supplies, but keep an eye on that bug! You don’t want it to disappear and dive bomb you in your sleep, again, do you?
You will need a cup. Preferably laced with poison of some kind, but a plastic one will do. Also, a piece of stiff cardboard or plastic to cover the cup (a CD case cover works well, so you can see what you’re doing). Make sure you have easy access to a sink and toilet. Toilets with that heavy duty industrial flush work best, but any flushing toilet will do in a pinch.

Step 2. Turn on light. Pray bug will fly into it at a high rate of speed.
Step 3. Wait for bug to land, or become stunned from its multiple flights and fall to the floor (this is ideal!)
Step 3a. If bug refuses to land, chase it around using your cup like a butterfly net.
Step 4. If it was a mid-flight catch, take that little asshole down to the floor. If he landed on the floor, just cover it with the cup. Flick the bottom of the cup to show that bug whose boss!
Step 5. Slide cardboard or plastic* under cup. DO NOT LET BUG OUT. *note Saran Wrap is not an effective for of plastic for this procedure. Use something stiff, you dimwit.
Step 6. Carefully pick the (now) covered cup up. Flip it over at a high rate of speed. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DON’T LET THE COVER SLIP!
Step 7. Shake it like a salt shaker
Step 8. Run around screaming with cup/cover combo in hand.
Step 9. Regain control, take cup/cover to sink. Give the cover a few good flicks to make sure the little bastard is good and stunned. Shake the cup again, for good measure.
Step 10. Turn the sink on full blast. Slide the cover off 1/4" and let the water run in. Fill the cup about 1/4 full.
Step 11. Cover cup again, and shake the cup side to side. Drown the fucker!
Step 12. Add more water. Repeat shaking.
Step 13. Shake more.
Step 14. If bug is sufficiently stunned, or possibly dead, proceed to the toilet.
Step 15. Speed is important! Flush the toilet, and as the last half of the water goes down, quickly yank off the cover, dump the bug water into the toilet.
Step 16. Cover toilet. Flush again.
Step 17. Throw away cup. You don’t want to drink bug shit, do you?
Step 18. Carefully lift toilet lid and check to make sure you don’t have a renegade bug.
Step 19. If bug returns from the land of Poo, you need to move out, ASAP.
Step 20. Wash hands a dozen times.
Step 21. Better yet, go shower. Twice.

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