Beware: You are About to Be Bugged
posted on 12 August 2011 | posted in
Home and Garden
Show me a travelling salesman, who in his career miles, has not come across the bugging issue of bugs. I will say ‘hats off’ to him. But in the corner of mind, I will say to myself, ‘hey this guy is lying to me’. Because it is an inevitable thing, if your career involves travelling, all the more, if that involves three times overnight journey in a week. Be it a train, bus or any public transport for that matter. No matter how much sensational (or sensible?) information you carry back to your head quarters, you will be ‘bug'ged’ at times. The framed window fly screens of trains and hotel apartments show the history of bug attacks - the marks of failed fly and mosquito attacks.
During the early days of my career, I had to rely on my old top portion of my soap box, which I fill with kerosene. With great patience (that, at time I don’t have with my subordinates on tour) I will go about extracting those bugs and put them in that. Quite time consuming I should say. Then came the magic contraption called spray, the one in which you have to mix the liquid with some kerosene in the pitcher provided, take a large kerchief and masquerade yourself like a dacoit, and go about as if it is holi. The result is that your room smells awful, for two days. Then came the “No- kerosene” spray. But still you have to pour it in the pitcher, and still it is holi. But as if by magic, they bugs are back after sometime not because of the inefficiency of the sprays, but I have toured again. Then came the aerosol spray cans, where the job is easy, the smell was also bearable. Then the perfumed ones, that too with a sleek attachable snout, that can drive out the ones that are hidden in the crevices. It is easy nowadays to get rid of the ‘bug’ging problem. Or nagging I should say?
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