The following is an excerpt from an email written to me by my younger middle sister after viewing the comments on TOADAL RECALL. Aaron is her fiance'. It is as follows.
Battletoads. hee hee.
r.s. (random script) Aaron loves fly swatters. He gets excited when he sees one. "Aaahh, man. Y'all have a fly swatter." They are nostalgic to him, like a good game of WaHoo. He especially likes to see them hanging, not just placed haphazardly on top of the fridge. Is it strange for the flyswatter to be a nostalgic trigger? Fly swatters are still readily available at your neighborhood grocer or the Dollar store. In fact, if you pay attention, many people probably still have one at home. But I do think they are less common than they were 20 years ago. Maybe because people don't keep their windows and doors open so much? Maybe because technology has advanced more with screens, caulk, insulation, seals? People prefer air conditioning to fresh air? Trash cans seal better so flies don't congregate? I thought of that because I was thinking of frogs eating flies.
3 comments:
I had no idea. You see-- fly swatters were used in the corporal punishment process at the House of Rountree. Was the fly swatter hanging on the wall as art? Oh no-- it rode proudly on the dash of my mom's Suburban. So, I have to argue that the apparent extinction of fly swatters isn't because we don't leave our windows open anymore. (In fact-- most of us never opened our windows) The extinction stems from a left wing liberal movement attempting to banish corporal punishment and thus furthur the hoodlum movement capturing today's youth.
Are photo requests still accepted? If so, I'd like to see a picture of a shoe hanging from a doorknob. Why not?
I'd like to see you with a cherry in each nostril. If your nostrils are too small, olives would be acceptable. Nostrils is a strange word. Sounds more like a country than a part of the body.
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