Determined to the end

Our apartment has no air conditioning. Now I have lived most of my life in the southern part of the US and our houses had air conditioning, our cars had air conditioning (except for my Chevy S-10 pickup that I got off my uncle but he was from Ohio - the windows still rolled down though), and some people even had portable cooling devices. Now truly, our life here does not really need air conditioning as its not real hot here like it is in North Carolina however we still like to have our windows open. That brings us to my next point - There are no screens on the windows here. Now that might not seem like much of a worry except that we keep our windows open all the time which means we have a lot of “flying” visitors.

This brings us to last night which I am sure some of you will be wondering at the end of this story why I told you this but I feel I must. Krista and I were getting ready for bed when we heard a fly buzzing around. We have learned that flys like to find your ears while you try and sleep and don’t leave you alone. So we were determined that this fly should not stay with us for a sleepover. That’s when Krista announced that she saw it. As I am about to ask her of its location, I feel this great big SMACK! on my shoulder. Yep, she missed. But the funniest thing was watching her face as she realized that she had just slapped her husband of almost 15 years. I then proceeded to ask her to get the fly swatter (while biting my lower lip).

Just as Krista was so determined to get the fly that she unwittingly reddened me, I too was so determined that when I finally got the fly swatter in hand and located the fly, I started swatting violently and repeatedly at it. However, I too missed as the fly was on my back. To give you a visual, think about medieval monks flogging themselves as pentence. That’s what I looked like.

After our outburst of laughter over this incident, we decided that the fly could live out its day in peace and we went to bed.

Boy, we sure were determined to get that fly. So determined that we didn’t realize what we were doing to each other or ourselves. Are you so determined about something that you are not seeing how it might hurt yourself or those around you? Just something to think about.