Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Breaking News: I hate ants.

It’s a fight to the death between us humans and the pharaoh ants. It’s a patient fight -- and I’m totally losing. I have to wait until they take the liver-boric acid bait back to their stupid wall-void home and feed it to all of their stupid wall-void family. But I can't. I must smear every single one that I see.

Conventional sprays and dusts don’t work because they scatter; and not because they sense your presence. It’s because their bodies are so light that the force by which the spray is delivered is enough to pick them up off the ground and give them flight like that the Dumbo ride at Disney World. Or like that time when we tried to kill a spider at the What Manor, but instead of killing it, we birthed a billion of its babies all over the foyer baseboards. Raid simply scattered them like a can of air from Office Depot. Dear god, the ambush still haunts my dreams.

I’ve been reading up on these squatters who think live in our bathrooms. They’re well-known pests worldwide, but most notably in hospitals. They’ve been seen on a baby’s face stealing its precious saliva for moisture, infiltrating sealed sterile bags, contaminating IV bags, and living inside of wounds, spreading infection. I just threw up in my mouth, hold on. Ugh, so gross. I hate these ants. These ants must die.

You can ess a bee of dees, pharaoh ants -- we are so over.

2 comments:

  1. there is this blue liquid stuff, comes in a smallish bottle and you can get it at publix. if you put it where the ants are, they will DIVE on it to eat it, many, many more will come to take it back to the nest... and soon you'll start seeing the corpses of the ants ringing where the blue liquid was. it kills them all. seriously. try it.

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