Arse Jet!

Look, we are reasonably tidy people, ok?

Really. I mean, the lounge room (who am I kidding? It's our only room) does get a bit out of hand sometimes when neither of us can be bothered tidying up. And there are occasions when the dishes get left in the sink or some food on the shelf maybe goes a little off. But basically we're not slobs.

It is this last situation which lead to our apartment's infestation of fruit flies. We gradually noticed that there were more and more of the little buggers hanging around, and even after we located the root of the problem (a mouldy, mushy banana in the fruit bowl) and removed it, they still seemed to be hanging around. Still, nothing a bit of insect spray from the local pharmacy can't fix, right?

The name of this insect spray is Aasu Jetto. I'm guessing this is a katakanification of the phrase "Earth Jet", but unfortunately it comes out like Arse Jet. There are a stack of badly-katakanified words in Japan, but I think this is my favourite - is it insecticide or fart gas?

Whatever the can contains, it doesn't seem to do much. It seems to have approximately the same effect as spraying water on them. There are less of the bugs but three weeks later there are still some hanging around.

Perhaps I need to look for a spray at the pharmacy that's stronger than Arse Jet - maybe it's called something like "Butt Cannon"?