Or

Would it be better if I took out the "odd" bit so it sounded like...

"It was said that my grandfater could pick up a fly and pet it. "Why, oh why, must the fly die?" he'd say, before slowly squeezing the life out of it. He could spend a whole afternoon like that apparently, hot and lazy, squeezing the life out of flies."

Or, maybe without the hot and lazy part too...

"It was said that my grandfater could pick up a fly and pet it. "Why, oh why, must the fly die?" he'd say, before slowly squeezing the life out of it."

Then again the "why oh why bit" is a bit over the top so...

"It was said that my grandfater could pick up a fly and pet it."

Also, it occurs to me that likely nobody will believe the part about my grandfather petting flies, even though it is probably true, my uncle could do it too, I saw him, so maybe it could go more like....











































Is that better?