Trail of Tears
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- kingjulien
About a week ago I started to notice an ant or two every time I entered the bathroom. I never thought much of it though because there were only a few visible, and it didn't seem to impede my daily habits. My mother, who I consult with about such matters, recommended that I purchase some ant killer immediately, as she claimed there was an entire colony infested in the walls. She got me worried, so I purchased this special syrup at the hardwore store, a clear sticky substance that contains Borax. I placed the stuff on two small pieces of cardboard next to the toilet and then went to bed.
The next day there were thousands of ants surrounding the strips, the majority in this circular pattern around the periphery. It was amazing. There were big ants and little ants, all feverishly coming and going--some drinking the syrup, some just floating in the center, a tiny little cessful of death. Occasionally one ant would jockey for position, or begin to dryhump another, and for 5-10 minutes every day I've been consumed with their every movement.
Today, a week later, I awoke and the pack has thinned out dramatically. There are a couple left--lurkers getting their last few drops-- but for the most part the ants have scattered. I guess they're supposed to return to the colony, spread the poison, and then die somewhere else. That's the thing though. Some of them haven't gone away, they've just keeled over in the sink or on the floor. Better yet, I've seen a few on their final legs, including two that died while walking (they just stopped and that was it). I've seen ten seizures and at least that many strokes. I feel guilty but it's kind of cool watching them flop, one tiny little antennae shaking in fits, and then finally, nothing, the life sucked out of them. Now as I scan the horizon I notice a sea of corpses, and I realize I have a calamity here bigger than anybody could have imagined. It's like a warzone, a floor of carnage, and I guess there's nothing left for me to do but scoop them up and toss them away.
- Rand0
their dying agony will haunt you every night for the rest of your life
- todelete__20
remind me never to use your toilet or pass out in your tub
- emokid0
i like stories about pain, agony and death.
- kingjulien0
you should have known that a long time before the ants, kona...
- yawn0
what a sad tale
- grayhood0
i wonder how many ant ghosts it takes to equal one reaqlly scary human sized ghost... you better hope ants are less organized in the afterlife then there are in this life.
- mg330
I had to sleep in this guy's closet in junior high because there were ants on the floor by his bed where my sleeping bag was, and would you know it, I awoke to find pizza underneath me in the morning, in the closet.
- kingjulien0
I don't know why, but when I was getting my brain scanned earlier, I kept hearing that song, Pour Your Misery Down on Me.
- Rand0
all the best to ya, kj
- todelete__20
my house was infested with carpenter ants once.
built me a really fine deck they did.
- grayhood0
...their unions are the worst
- todelete__20
we make a good team
- JazX0
You're not referring to the Seminole are you?
*cues 'Cherokee by Europe'
- Point50
I blame your mom for that genocide.
- Jaline0
I know what you mean. It's so wrong, yet so amazingly enticing.
Once I kept a fly in a glass jar full of water, just to see how long it would take before it died.
- Jaline0
I had to sleep in this guy's closet in junior high because there were ants on the floor by his bed where my sleeping bag was, and would you know it, I awoke to find pizza underneath me in the morning, in the closet.
mg33
(Nov 11 05, 14:14)awww...grroooss...
- mayo0
when they turn your books into movies, I wonder if they can get ANTonio banderas to play the lead ant in this :D
Soundtrack by adam ANT :D
sorry :(
- Visia0
ick. That's gross.