Today we went to my parent's house for dinner. It was such a nice night that my mom suggested we all eat outside. Unfortunately the bees found us. I remembered that we had bug spray in the diaper bag. Both Darin and my mom were horrified at the thought of bug spray near food. That's when my mom brought out an almost full bottle of Scope mouthwash.
Overall, my family always prefers going the natural route when it comes to remedies and treatments. I don't know how 'natural' Scope is - but I would agree that it is less intense than bug spray. Anyway, this wasn't the first time I had heard my mom's theory that mouthwash keeps bugs away. In preparation for playing with the girls in our buggy backyard, she had brought the bottle of Scope over to our house a few weeks ago. Unfortunately we left the spray bottle- her only spray bottle- back there.
Its just hard to express into words that moment as we were all sitting around my parent's patio table on the deck, eating kopetka (like potato-y dumplingies), Polish-style prepared beef (nicknamed Ola's beef), and carrot, raisin, mango, orange salad while my mom literally was dumping Scope in the palm of her hand and then sprinkling it about the perimeter of the table and on our chairs. A couple more handfuls were dispersed onto the center of the table.
All in all, the bees did stay away, for periods of 10-15 minutes at a time, and then my mom would have to re-sprinkle.
Mom: I need to spray some more.
Me: Would you really call that spraying?
I really regret not having my camera with me, because the visual was just so rich. Though we all got a good laugh out of the whole thing, I'm sure one of these days someone will come on Oprah or The Today Show and announce that mouthwash is the new hottest, green, bug spray.
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