To the brainless lecher who followed me home today.

I jog. It’s clean, sweaty fun. It was a nice day - cool, not too humid and the sun was mercifully behind cloud cover. I was minding my own business. It was a nice day.

Then you showed up.

I ran faster to get away from your dirty clutches, but you made circles around me, taunting me and exploiting my weakness. The few times I took a swing at you, you deftly evaded my hand and went right on pestering me. What kind of robotic, merciless mindset controls your urges, going after this young boy with your dogged persistence? You, sir, are the primest example of the nadir of modern society’s decay.

I picked up the pace again, but you relentlessly kept behind me, matching my labored pace precisely. There was nothing I could do to escape you - you were faster than me and didn’t tire one bit, while I was wheezing from the effort. I was like Alice, running as fast as I can just to maintain the status quo. I slowed down, because I was on the verge of cardiac arrest, and you land a bite on my shoulder. You went too far that time, mister. You disgust me in ways I cannot articulately voice, at least in this forum, and at least without using words that I, being the innocent little bairn that I am, will not employ.

You could have asked me politely for a date - after all, I am an open-minded fellow. You don’t seem that much older than me, and I’m sure this sort of thing is legal, at least in this state. But no. You don’t want me for my witty banter. You don’t want to discuss Kafka over tea. You don’t want me for my personality. You just want my blood. Your singleminded drives pull you to my lean, unspoiled body in hopes that it would satisfy your animal urges, after which you drop me like your other victims. Sir, I would have killed you if I had the chance, but as I said, you dodged my slaps like a master samurai and then returned to your harrying me in your inhuman manner.

I hate you with passion only exceeded by the first instants of the Big Bang. If I find you, I will kill you. It won’t be a fair fight either - I’m bringing in all that I can to help me. Raid, blowguns, flyswatters - the works. You’re going down, Über-Horsefly. I’m kicking butts and taking names, and you’re gonna regret ever laying your dirty proboscis on me, you sick, sick freak.

Woosh…

You just about got me.

On the plus side people watching you from far away probably got a good laugh seeing you flail away at air. And we need all the laughter we can get these days. In fact I’m chuckling now.

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Stupid stinging insects!

When he said blood, I was thinking mosquito. :wink:

OMG, I thought you were talking about a human following you at first!

It could have been a mosquito - but how many mosquitoes are the size of quarters? Besides, mosquitoes don’t have that special persistence that horseflies seem to possess in spades. I heard horseflies have chased down cars and galloping horses. It’s easy to believe - that bugger followed me half a mile! Me, I don’t see the point of following anything half a mile, even potential food sources. Sure, I’ll give the thing some slack - his kind lacks the luxury of grocery stores and automobiles to take them there, but can’t he bother someone else, like my many idiot neighbors?

A mosquito does not anywhere near fly fast enough to keep up with a jogging human.

Unless, of course, they’re in Florida, in which case they’re supersonic and the size of small vultures.

Yah - that happens a lot… :smiley:

I can empathize with you - I got stug by a wasp while I was on vacation. Little bastard made me lose half my bag of Doritos.

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One correction: It is the female horsefly (and mosquito) that will suck blood – IIRC, they need the protein for egg development. Males feed on pollen and nectar.

Being invertebrates, I suppose the rant could be “the spineless bitch…”
[/didactic pedantry]

Didactice pedantry? I guess I was just asking for it…

Round our way, we call those big biting buggers “cleggs”. A clegg fly can fly fast enough to keep up with a jogging human.