Battle of the Ants…

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If you feed them, they will come…

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I can be all the way in the back of the RV, enjoying a snack from the comfort of my bed, only to be approached by a cheeky ant out of nowhere… as if they just magically arrived! No… they are not harmful, nor aggressive, but I disdain them nonetheless!

Ants and I go back a long ways, if you remember the time I wrote about the midnight Kool-aid incident of 2007. Grabbing a glass to take a drink, while in darkness of night, I swallowed a mouthful of more ants than I care to remember. I never could get the red stain of spit Kool-aid from off my comforter. We have been sworn enemies ever since!

I will hunt them down like a bloodhound, indiscriminately squishing them with my fingers, all the while, giving out loud warnings to all their kin! It’s now heading toward warmer weatherish, so they are getting active! I have learned recently that the best way to eat anything safely, requires keeping all food out of the bedroom. Don’t laugh, but when my husband brings home a snack for me, I will eat it in front of the trash can, just to ensure that all incriminating evidence lands only in the bin.

Night before last when my husband had his container of cinnamon rolls on the counter for like 15 minutes, I swear, I went to steal a bite and nearly ate a family of ants! What is the lesson that I most recently learned… nothing is safe when there are ants nearby!

Here, have some cake…

20 thoughts on “Battle of the Ants…”

  1. I’ve heard that living in an RV invites the critters in. I lived in a parking lot during my RV life, so I didn’t have that problem. But I understand that if you have dirt under your wheels, the creepy crawlies will invite themselves in. Sorry you’re having difficulties.

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  5. I shared an office with a buddy and we were always playing pranks on each other. One afternoon while he was in a meeting, I shoved the remainder of my lunch in his bottom desk drawer and put some papers over it. A week goes by, I notice him sniffing. Soon a trail of ants appear outta nowhere and like a cartoon traipse straight for his bottom drawer. As he went to open it, I felt it an opportune time to stretch my legs 😂

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  6. The Ant horror show you shared here today will no doubt send me to therapy. You see as I read your story, a flashback occured.

    In an early morning attempt to not wake anyone, I once left the kitchen lights off while fixing a bowl of cereal.

    Few bites into it. All was going well but I didn’t add enough milk. So when I reopened the door to the fridge, I still held the spoon in my hand.

    The light from the fridge illuminated tiny moving things all over the spoon and my fingers, too.

    Yes, the cereal was more of an ant hive, but since they are protein…

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  10. When we went to Hawaii we had leftover pizza and no fridge to put it in. Knowing that pizza left out is a dorm room staple, I told my ten year old it would be fine the next day and he dreamed of pizza for breakfast.

    What we did not realize is Hawaii has micro ants. And they like pizza. Bleary eyed from travel, we didn’t see them on the leftover slices. But my kiddo sure noticed as he bit into them. The rest of the pizza started boiling with ants at that point in the meal..

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  11. This situation has parallels to the Hatfield vs McCoys feud. You started it by drinking a few dozen of their ancestors and they retaliate by touching your food so you won’t eat it. It sounds like they might be trying to starve you. You keep squishing them with your fingers, they try to carry your cinnamon rolls away. Have you considered peace talks?

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