Jerry Zezima: No fly zone
Published in Lifestyles
Most people would say — especially in the winter, when insects are vacationing in Florida — that they wouldn’t hurt a fly. Not my wife.
Sue wouldn’t hurt anything else, including me, even though I’m the biggest pest in the house, but she doesn’t like flies.
Or ants. Or spiders. Or any other winged invaders or creepy crawlers that bug the heck out of us once the weather gets warm.
That’s why we have had not one, not two, but three visits from an exterminator.
The first one was Sam, which is short for Samantha.
“I’m the only woman exterminator in our company,” Sam told me. “I broke the glass ceiling.”
“Can’t bugs get in through the broken glass?” I wondered.
“Yes,” Sam answered. “That’s why I’m here.”
“My wife is the only woman exterminator in our family,” I said. “She’s always prowling the house with a flyswatter.”
“People don’t like bugs,” Sam stated. “The best way to get rid of them is by putting traps around the house. The bugs will get stuck in them and die. It also prevents them from laying eggs that produce more bugs.”
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