Bat Woes!

I was lost in the glorious plans for the upcoming weekend and I suddenly heard a piercing shriek followed by maniacal laughter! It took me not more than a moment to realize what had transpired out in the hall in my absence. Our infamous, unwanted, uninvited, undesirable guest was back to spoil another beautiful evening!
Before you become judgmental and wonder against whom I was harboring such strong feelings let me tell you about this "Visitor" that we have been receiving. Its a black, scaly, ugly & smelly BAT (the last adjective is a matter of fact and not my deduction by having smelt it. Yes, you read that right, a tiny but a punctual bat, swooping inside the house at around 6:30 pm every evening and has us running helter-skelter in whichever non-bat direction we can find.
All those Batman fans out there, dont get me wrong.Batman sure is hot but bats are soooo not! When the bat is around, its a very funny and crazy sight that an outsider gets to see. The three of us (me & my cousins) are crouching with hands over our heads on the sofa more like we are stuck on a battlefield or are watching a scary movie than actually trying to ward off the bat.
The entertaining part of this comes when the bat swoops low over our head and that sets off Shru like we set off a live bomb over her head, she shrieks loudly enough to cross the thresholds of human hearing and enter the ones of dogs and BATS!This is funny and terrifying at the same time, Shru's antics being the funny side of it.I and Amri wud laugh our head off at that till that caused the bat to swoop back again in the room.
As if all this wasnt enough, Amri came up with the stupid idea to run around the house screaming 'Bat' at the top of her voice and you guessed right! Cause Shru to yell again! But there's more to it as this caused another bat to come swooping in! Like one bat was not enough, we had two on our hands now! More precisely over our heads!! I had to use an umbrella one late night, as a shield to duck behind, when I had to go out alone to turn off the lights(in the hall and run quickly back to the room and shut the door close) as our visitor had decided to come in late that evening.
Things did not improve over 3 days and one evening we '3 cowards'decided to ask our maid to rid us of this peril! Up she came to our home(probably laughing silently at our cowardice) and armed herself to face the enemy! Her weapon of choice was of course the most favoured weapon of all Indian women! The jhadoo/broomstick. The poor bat stood no chance against that. One swipe and we thot she had it! But she had missed, and after some running around the house she chased one out. The other flew to the room upstairs(which we found had been their roosting spot as some one had forgotten to close the open window above) and she chased that out too.
The excitement now mellowed we resumed our work, I all the time wondering if we would see a second of that visit. Which we did and it was a repeat of all the shrieking and laughing till the visits finally stopped thanks to the closed window!