Invasion Of The Ants

[calliopes_pen]

Yesterday evening, I saw and killed a couple of ants.

This morning, according to Mom, she got up and went into the kitchen--only to see dozens of ants. She didn't notice at first, since she was half asleep.

She rinsed out a cup, put ice and tea in it, and started to drink. She looked inside, and saw the ants crawling all over the ice...sort of using it as a life raft...

Yes, she drank some of them before looking! She then poured that out, rinsed all the cups out, and didn't tell me just how bad it was until a minute ago. Ick!

In the revised version, it wasn't dozens of ants--it was hundreds. Where they're coming from, I don't know.

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[moxie-fic.livejournal.com]

I remember an ant invasion when we lived in the States and a loopy neighbour told us that to get rid of ants you have to invite them to leave. So there was me putting out food for them in the yard and explaining to them that we'd all be happier if they lived outside. Well, it actually worked...or something did, but it was funny the way they all dutifully disappeared. My husband probably put down ant killer when I wasn't looking, but I'm clinging to the illusion that I'm an "ant whisperer" lol. You could try it and see what happens.

[calliopes_pen]

I can just picture that. Me standing in front of the sink, screaming for the ants to leave. *laughs*

(I won't do that, since everyone would think I was nuts.)

Well, there was a few months when the bathroom was infested by ants a couple years ago. Nothing killed them. Finally, Dad looked through the cupboards in there, and found a few chemicals (Old dishwashing liquid? Nobody knows...it was over 20 years old, whatever it used to be.) that had disolved the package they were in, since they were so old. Dad carefully disposed of that, and the ants left.

Now, what could be in the kitchen, I have no idea.