With the latest weapon in hand, her whole body was poised for attack....gaze locked on to the airborne intruder...As the 6 legged devilish creature entered the weapons range, her grip tightened...and then.. swish!!...with a deft stroke, she struck...but the creature was still smarter and she missed...Without loosing a second, she struck again...bullseye!...the enemy plummeted to the ground and lay there motionless...but there was no time for a double check or a victory dance...the allies of the victims were still in tha air...she quickly chose her next target...within minutes, almost the entire fleet was brought to ground..half a dozen electrocuted bodies lay on the ground, all around her..she beamed contentedly..and at long last, the war was over and the day(more precisely, the night) was saved....
No, i am not narrating a scene from some crazy hollywood sci-fi movie. Its a household reality- my sister's battle which she puts up with the mosquitoes everyday, before she goes to bed! And u would have guessed, by now, what weapon she was using... Ya,u are right.. its the deadly, so called, "Mosquito racquet", the new terminator in town..
Mosqitoes- the word instantly brings out a frown on every face, particularly the keralites (i don't have any idea of the condition in the rest of the states). This blood sucker has kept abreast of the humans in regard to population explosion.The blame can be doubtlessly put on the people's 'pursuit of development', which have disrupted the eco system that once kept their numbers at bay and offered them newer habitats to breed in large numbers. My guess is that there is atleast 5 mosquitoes for 1 person in kerala now(In alleppey and eranakulam, the number will be slightly higher). The mosquitoes wouldn't have been this much annoying if they had just done their bussiness (blood-sucking) and then left us alone.But, no...they don't stop at that..They want to drink your precious blood, infect u with diseases and still want to sing their heart out near our ear drum, while we are desperately attempting to sleep! I am sure each and every one of us have lost atleat one night's sleep and cursed God for creating the little devil, owing to this afflictive opera.
The simple and obvious way of dealing with a mosquito is, ofcourse, clapping your hands and crushing it to pulp..But this can be pretty weary owing to our poor strike rate and its astounding acrobatics. Naturally, humans began developing ways to fight them in a more comprehensive scale. And so, was born the 'mosquito coil', which suffocated the mosquitoes (and some poor asthmatic humans too) and drew them(mosquitoes only) out of our homes. But soon, they evolved to be resistant to the toxic fumes. Then came the more cleaner, "All-out", to which too, they have gained tolerance upto some extend. But atleast they smell better than the coils. The latest weapon in the line, is our all new electric racquet, that uses a high voltage to electrocute them to death. So far its been absolutely fool proof and is capable of bringing down an entire gang in a short span of time. The only way of eluding this terminator, is to become electrically insulating. For our sake, lets hope our enemies don't evolve to it!!
P.S: I hope i dont get beaten up by my sister! :-D
Hihi nice :D
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