The price I paid for leaving the back door open too long today was that a fly zoomed in. But the reward I got later was worth it: An epic battle between the fly and a spider that had been making its home above the door.
What really made this classic was that I had taken a newspaper (yes, a physical newspaper) and made a swipe at the fly when I saw it on our backdoor window. The fly, in attempting to escape my vicious swing, flew directly into the spider web, and the spider took things from there.
(Very glad I didn’t have to swallow the spider to catch the fly, like that old lady in the song.)
Always in reporter mode, I taped my iPhone to the ceiling for some time-lapse photography. Okay, maybe a little twisted… like a fly in a spider web.
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Excellent entertainment-and I do enjoy a good pun!