A familiar sight after many years once again: moving black dots covering a neglected coke can as soon as I’m done, the white sink covered in moving black dots in the morning drawn by the sweet, peppermint mouthwash from last night, dead, winged insect on the white floor suddenly moving away held up by moving black dots. Oh black ants, you bring back childhood memories.
14 responses to “Sudden Status”
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thank,s
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like, verry nice
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i like
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Good Article
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The ants… cute animals…
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[…] ants this morning. They are not the ticklish, harmless, black ants climbing all over the tabletop I wrote about earlier (from coke can to mouthwash) but a line of red ants on the concrete walkway that were crossing my […]
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Indeed yes
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My ants memory: a parade of tiny ants in the shower when we lived in the Philippines. If I splashed them, they released a subtle smell and the other marching ants changed the route of their march just enough to avoid the spot of my attack.
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Yes. I’ve distracted ants traveling in a line too by rubbing the smell off.
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