Hubby and I live in a pretty nice house in a pretty nice neighborhood. We don’t live in a barn, so the doors in our house should be closed after someone exits the house. Apparently Hubby never got that memo.
Hubby has a horrible habit of opening the slider off the kitchen, calling for Max and leaving said slider-door open until Max makes an appearance. If Hubby has to go outside with Max, odds are excellent Hubby is going to leave that slider open until they both return to the house.
Now, I’ve tried and tried to explain to Hubby the connection between open slider door and flying insects in the house. He just doesn’t seem to get it though.
A few weeks ago Hubby had once again let in another fly. But unlike most flies, this one was a wile sucker. We couldn’t seem to sneak up on it to squash it with a newspaper. So, the next morning – unbeknownst to me – Hubby went out and bought flypaper. And proceeded to hang that flypaper above the kitchen sink!!!
When I came downstairs and saw that piece of flypaper in the kitchen, near our food, I may have had a small (or extremely large) screaming hissy-fit.
To make matters worse, he actually caught the stupid fly with the flypaper:
While happy the fly was now gone, I nevertheless made Hubby immediately take down the flypaper and throw it away. And, when his back was turned I tossed out the other three flypaper rolls that were in the pack he bought so Hubby’d never be tempted to do something like this again.
Flypaper. In our kitchen. SMH
So, do you use flypaper in your kitchen?
Stephanie B says
Oh Hubby….
Debb F says
M E N>>>> that is all I am going to say. Ann all you have to do to catch any fly is spray any kind of aerosol ( I use hair spray or windex) and it makes their wings to heavy to fly and you can catch them in no time.
NO FLY PAPER HERE EVER! That is nasty! Perhaps you need to tell hubby if he can not close the sliding screen door, that you are going to have to call your contractor and have it replaced with a regular storm door and it will look stupid there, but look much smarter than leaving the dang door open and using fly paper.
Ann says
LOL I’ll definitely have to think of something, Debb. I doubt he’ll try the flypaper again, but you never know.
Ann
Renae says
Thank your hubby for the good laugh I just had! 🙂
Ann says
I shall tell him, Renae!
Ann
Shell says
I don’t use it in the house, but we do use them in the barn. They are gross because they are full of really sticky glue, but there are no nasty chemicals.
I just had a bad run in with a huge horse fly. I was at my sister’s camp in the bayou and we went to get snowballs. I got bite by a huge horse fly while waiting in line. This thing was all black and huge! The next day I broke out in hives and had them on and off for about a week.
KimH says
I did use them one year, quite a few years back.. but that was before I figured out that my Dyson makes a better fly/gnat sucker upper.. Into the trash they went.. They served a purpose.. but not very well.