Australian Flies
20 Feb 2011 Leave a Comment
For once, I decided not to go anywhere on a Sunday, but to stay at home and rot.
Few days back, I started cycling to work. From my house to work place is about 30 minutes bike ride. 5 minutes spent in front of traffic light, 5 minutes spent on getting down from my bike and push it up a slope ( no stamina). Not too bad so far, not as tiring as I would have imagined apart from my overripe tomato face ( just too red) after that.
Cycling makes me realise one thing. Australian flies are similar to kangaroos that jumped onto the road out of no where middle of the night. Both of them can cause accidents. I heard stories about kangaroos causing car crash, and now I tell you, australian flies can potentially cause bike crash. There was one day when I was happily cycling down a slope, an australian fly attacked me out of no where. First it landed on my face, I ignored its presence as I was concentrating on the road. Then, it moved into my eyes.INTO MY LEFT EYE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I felt its legs touching my eyes. MAN! I just have to put my legs down immediately to stop my bike. Fortunate enough, it happened in a park, not on the road.
That is not the end of it…
The second time, an australian fly went to into my nostril for 0.5 seconds ( i think). My goodness, I just have to keep reminding myself, don’t take a deep breathe while cycling. I have to balance between supplying enough oxygen to my lung and to avoid inhaling a fly into my air pipe. I really have no idea what is wrong with these flies. I am certain that I don’t look like food to them.
Now, I am considering to apply flies repellent during summer if this happens again. How many layers of cream I need to put on my skin? Moisturiser, Sunscreen, now flies repellent…zzzZZZZZ
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