I don’t know whether you have ever used a handheld, indoor bug zapper, but I think that they are marvelous. I?m talking about the handheld type that looks like a child’s plastic, toy tennis racquet. They come in two basic kinds. I prefer the rechargeable bug zapper, because batteries end up up costing more than the indoor bug zapper itself, although you could always buy rechargeable batteries, but then they are dear as well.
My wife and I like to pass time in the garden. We meet friends there, lunch there and generally loaf about outdoors, as do most folks around here, when they are not working. What’s more, it’s much cooler outdoors than indoors. A comfy chair, a few snacks, a cool drink and a book or a friend and life does not get much better. In fact, it?s heavenly.
That is until about six or seven o’clock when the first squadron of mosquitoes have judged that the sun’s rays have lost enough strength that they will not evaporate and they come out searching for blood. Some evenings are worse than others, of course. More often than not, the mosquitoes are pretty bearable, particularly given that I have discovered the indoor bug zapper. (I don’t know why it is referred to as an ‘indoor bug zapper’, it is just as useful outdoors as in)..
It’s not that I want to kill things, but I find it hard to have sympathy for mosquitoes. Nonetheless, I do get a certain amount of enjoyment from seeing and hearing mosquitoes and other bugs literally explode with a flash and a spark as they come into connection with the electric and earth wires of the indoor bug zapper. These electric bug zappers are capable of packing quite a charge, especially if the batteries are new or the pack is fully charged.
The other day, I found a new use for my handheld, indoor bug zapper. I’ll tell you how it came about. I was in the garden, as normal, and my bug zapper was close at hand as the first squadron of mosquitoes was expected. I had my book in one hand and the bug zapper on my knees, when my wife asked me to go to the store for her. No problem, therefore, I set off on the five minute walk.
I was half-way there when I noticed that I had the indoor bug zapper in my hand, but it was not worth taking it home and beginning the trip again. Anyway, on my return trip, I had my small bag of provisions in one hand and the indoor bug zapper in the other, when a local bully of a dog came running out of a garden straight for me. This has occurred often and, although he has never bitten me yet, it is somewhat menacing. He stood there glaring at me with teeth bared and his ‘pack’ of miscellaneous local pals came out to encircle me and join in.
I don’t actually know what the best course of action is in this situation. I have tried holding my ground, but the intimidation just continues and I have tried to continue walking, but he gets worryingly close sometimes. This time, I suddenly lashed out with the indoor bug zapper and just hit him on the snout. Well, I’m not sure whether it hurt him, it did not appear to too much, but it gave him a very nasty shock in more ways than one, I can tell you! He leapt about four feet into the air as if he were on a pogo stick and then fled for all he was worth with all his friends behind him. It was very gratifying after six months of persecution from this dog.
Anyway, I don’t take my indoor bug zapper everywhere with me, but I will in future, if any further local dogs bother me. I know it works a treat. I have seen that one since, but he stays far away from me and doesn’t utter a squeak. I think I would take my indoor bug zapper with me, if I were wandering in an strange part of town or the park nevertheless.
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