Attacks of the Ants
First it was The Phantom Menace Mosquitoes, and now it’s the Attacks of the Clones Ants! What’s next? Revenge of the Sith Roaches, that I killed many many years ago? And then world domination? Are they in cahoots or what? Insect kingdom replacing mankind?
Life’s hard. And it’s especially true when you can’t even have a place to call your own. Ever since the mosquitoes episode has ended, I thought peace will prevail and in one way or another I will have the ownership of this house back. Thoughts came true! But not for long.
As much as I can never comprehend why there were so many much mosquitoes in my abode, I don’t understand why there are so many ants now, especially the kitchen. Though I am not in control of the kitchen, I can safely say that my mother has been ensuring that the hygience and cleanliness of the kitchen are in a better shape than my room. So why are ants still appearing?
Interestingly enough, they seem to be exploring very weird places. I saw them queueing up at the kitchen sink and one end of the queue stopped at the container of dish-washing detergent. I mean, what can they find there? Are these mutated ants looking for new sources of nutrition? Yes, I meant DETERGENT.
And usually I don’t stop or kill these ants, because I believe in karma and that I would be in the wrong if I kill these ants that I had sub-consciously attracted through bad management of litters. But this time at the sink, I was so furious and there was no reason they should end up at the detergent anyway, so I flushed them down into the sink knowing that somehow they wouldn’t all die, just at least be somewhere out of my sight. Man, it sends shivers down my spine whenever I see them gathered in such massive amounts.
Truth is, I can’t kill ants. I mean I can’t annihilate them; there are more ants than the total population of mankind in this globe, and they existed long before we did. The most I could do this time is to find the nest where these ants from my house came from, and then destroy it. Now this is tough; I have always seen queues of ants, and one of these ends would always be extended into some deep corners of cupboards, or some dark areas unreachable to human. How would I know where all these places lead to? I can’t be pouring boiled water into every single dark, deep corners in the hope that it would somehow kill the Queen eh? Or can I?
And to make things worse, the insecticide I am using didn’t really help alot. And you should look at the way my Mom was utilising those cans of insectides! She could easily finish up one 600ml can a day I think, but I never asked. I won’t mention what brand we use, in case I get sued for slander (that it is of little use, if at all). Oh and a little discovery that the vapours from Shieldtox give out a fragant smell. Maybe one day if they can’t do insecticide anymore because of complaints that it can’t kill ants, they could easily change to perfume or deodorant business! Stroke of a genius.
But till I come up with any feasible solutions, I’ll be living with the ants. Who knows one day before I could destroy them, I might get used to living with them. At least they are not as irritating as the mosquitoes who would suck my blood and make me itch. Well, they just crawl around and sometimes give me the creeps, but beyond that, maybe we can really co-exist. Afterall, they survived extinction unlike the dinosaurs. ;) And more likely than not, they can probably survive me too.