Death by shoe

You are in your bedroom doing your stuff and, suddenly, out of the corner of your eye, you spot a tiny little crawly creature in your surroundings. You don’t think about it twice, you grab a shoe and… PAF! Death by shoe! Tiny little crawly creature is dead. RIP…

Were you to defend yourself in court about your acts, you might be able to say something on the lines of “it was having my clothes for breakfast” if it was a moth, “it was covering all my body with nasty bites” if it was a mosquito, “it was infesting my house” if it was a cockroach… However, what would happen if it was just a tiny little spider not doing you any harm whatsoever? What would you say? It was just annoying me?

I can imagine the prosecuting lawyer saying something like: “The poor little creature was just there minding its own business, not doing any harm to anybody, and was met by the cruel actions of a thoughtless, inconsiderate and aggressive human being who’d just decided that its death would not make any difference to the world, that after all it was just an ugly, disgusting and annoying little creature. The poor little thing was just there in the wrong place at the wrong time, and PAF! It met its death under a shoe… Very sad indeed… This human being, if he or she could ever be considered to be human, should be ashamed of his or her actions.”

Final verdict: GUILTY. Yes, I am guilty. I do now think about it twice before I use my shoes in this way.