The Warrior’s Code – Ten Ways To Deal With Mosquito Attacks

How To Deal With Mosquito

The warrior is always ready for battle when the summer months descend upon him. The warrior is strong. The warrior is brave. The warrior is noble. The warrior knows his enemy. And above all else the warrior lives by the code:

Ten Ways To Deal With Mosquito Attacks

1) The warrior will dedicate ten minutes of every night to standing on the bed in his underwear so he might hunt the enemy before he rests his head upon his pillow.

2) The warrior will smite the enemy wherever they are found; on the curtain, by the light fitting, on Mr Fluffykins the bear, on his own face.

3) The warrior is highly skilled with all weapons of combat; the rolled up news paper, the sock, the opened hand, the deodorant plus lighter.

4) The warrior will not raise his hand in anger against innocent bugs of the non-blood sucking kind. Especially the noble spider who is his ally against the true enemy (and technically an arachnid, not a bug).

5) The warrior will sleep lightly, with one ear opening, listening for the buzz of the enemy, ready to swat at the air.

6) The warrior will protect his woman by producing higher amounts of carbon dioxide, octenol and other compounds that attract the enemies’ bites.

7) The warrior will protect himself with the armor of battle; the pillow over the head.

8) The warrior will curse the name of the enemy with his every breath.

9) The warrior will treats his itchy red wounds of battle the next morning with soothing cream.

10) The warrior will wear his itchy red wounds of battle with pride and compare the amount and locations with other warriors when telling tales of heroism.

And above all else; The warrior will not scratch… He never scratches.

Stuart

Stuart is an accident prone Englishman who has been living in the Netherlands since 2001. Even his move to the country was an unintentional accident, the result of replying to a cryptic job advertisement he found one day in a local British magazine. Since then he has learned to love the Dutch (so much so that he married one of them) and now calls the country home. He started the blog Invading Holland in 2006 as a place to share his strange stories of language misunderstandings, cultural confusions and his own accident prone nature.

26 Responses

  1. Invader Stu says:

    Anita – I love garlic so I don’t mind trying it

    Breigh – I’m liking the sound of this more and more

    Dragonlady – He’s a friend of Alex :)

  2. Keith says:

    Any mossie that sucks my blood dies a horrible death, writhing in agony on the pillow while I watch with a smile on my face. You see, the poor little bastard didn’t know that there is a huge amount of rat poison (Warfarin)in my blood that my sadistic doctor prescribed for my dicky-ticker.

  3. Invader Stu says:

    Can I borrow some of your meds to make my attackers suffer the same fate

  4. Aledys Ver says:

    oh, dear! I hope that now with the temperatures going down those buggery bugs are gone?
    Anyway, should the war continue – how about trying to catch one and going “bbbbzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz” in its ear and see how it likes it!!

  5. Invader Stu says:

    I would need to find some way to inflict itchy bites on it too.

  6. Bart says:

    The modern warrior uses chemical weapons of mass mosquito destruction to get a good night’s sleep.
    Or he sleeps under a mosquito net. BTW, they come in two-person size too.

  7. Just a Plane Ride Away says:

    LOL! But oh, they *are* awful! Not as bad as in Texas, but definitely worse than the anemic ones in England. I am hoping that the storm killed them off last weekend, but I’m sure they will be back with a vengeance.

  8. kiks says:

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
    I missed this post! Oh, Stu, you crack me up.

  9. Invader Stu says:

    Bart – I had chemical weapons of mass mosquito destruction but EU mosquito inspectors came in and took them away.

    Kiks – thanks :)

  10. Jules says:

    #6–Are you and my boyfriend related somehow?

  11. Invader Stu says:

    I think this is just a misfortune that all men have

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