Home Alone: The Isabel EditionToday I came home with a bounce in my step because getting released early from school was akin to being granted a week's supply of Cheetos. AND Cheez Whiz. My mum wasn't working but she was out with my helper Lorena to the car repair shop, so I had the house to myself!
Which meant calling all my friends over and bringing out the bongo drums so that we can all do the macarena around a bonfire.Of course I kid.
WELL, you know how the friendly neighbourhood police always tell you to be vigilant especially when you're home alone? Danger lurks at every corner and a rapist can jump right out from under the bed.
I should have paid heed to all the warnings.I walked into my room, unsuspecting. Something caught my eye. I immediately retreated.
THERE WAS A MOTH ON MY AIR-CONDITIONER.Now moths definitely don't repulse me as much as cockroaches do. I just got quite scared of them after one landed on me when I was young and made me itch the whole night. In fact, I reared mealworms last time, but that's a completely different
and very embarrassing story.
Especially when they escaped.I tried chasing it away by knocking on the air conditioner but it just refused to budge! I was going to do QT and I didn't want the FLYING WORM (yes cos that's what moths are. WORMS WITH WINGS.) to suddenly come swooping down upon me. So I decided on a rather
cruel unconventional approach.
Recycled graph paper from Sec 3 (coordinate geometry ftw), double-sided tape, and alot of balance as I climbed on the window ledge so that the air con was within reach.
Now before the moth-lovers start hurling cockroaches at me, may I alert you to the PROTRUDING part of hte paper. That's where the butterfly was! I didn't want to hurt it!
I even made sure it had breathing holes!When Mummy and Lorena came home I got Lorena to remove the graph paper
cos I was scared of the Moth.But I had underestimated the adhesive properties of the double-sided tape.
It was practically taking the entire cover of the air-con along with it. Finally, after much tearing, the moth was set free!
And no, I didn't get a tan. Those are Lorena's hands HAHAH.I hope it doesn't appear in my dreams to choke me with its feelers for subjecting it to some time of captivity. D: On the bright side, maybe it shielded it from the cold of the air-con? Maybe I saved its life!
One can only guess.
And no, I didn't get a tan. Those are Lorena's hands HAHAH.