Mondays can be brutal. Today was no exception for me. The day started out pretty normal. I was moving through my list of tasks, actually pretty quickly for my procrastinating self. By late afternoon, I had paid some bills, balanced the checkbook, worked out, and now the laundry was washing and drying.
I was folding a load of blues, which consisted of pajamas, underwear, and workout clothes. After a few minutes, the whole basket was folded into piles of like items spread out on my bed. I had a small pile of underwear in my right hand and a short stack of t-shirts in the other. I put the underwear in my upper right dresser drawer, then bent down to put the t-shirts in the lower left dresser drawer. As I pulled the handle and the drawer came out, I was shocked by what was inside!
I found ants, thousands of stupid ants‼! They were scurrying around as if I had just disrupted their ant bed, you know outside, in the ground, where they’re supposed to be! The only thing I could think was to get them out of my house. I rolled the empty hamper over and filled it full of the ant-infested clothes from my drawer. I quickly pushed the hamper outside onto the back porch. I could deal with that later. I had to hurry and get rid of the ants still in the house.
I didn’t want to spray the ant killer from the can into my drawer so it could seep into the wood and ruin it forever! So, I got a wet paper towel and started killing by hand. I swiped them up in the towel while mashing down, then ran to the sink to drown them. I know it sounds inhumane, but they were ants infesting my t-shirt drawer‼
Eventually the mass majority had bit the dust. I decided to check the other drawers and sure enough the drawer above was infested as well. I got an empty basket, filled it with the infested clothes, and ran it outside with the now-infested hamper. I proceeded to kill the ants in the shorts drawer, and luckily that’s where it stopped. I didn’t hesitate to use the ant killer spray along the edge of the carpet behind the dresser and on the lower edge of the dresser.
I took a moment to breathe. Now, it was time for me to handle the ant-infested mess outside. I had put all of the clothes into the hamper and used the basket for the clothes that were now pest-free. I must have gone through 25 articles of clothing outside where it was like 100 degrees. I had to shake out each piece of clothing, sometimes beat it against the railing, flip it inside-out, and do it again…not a fun way to spend my afternoon.
Of course the wind was blowing profusely, which meant that as I shook out the clothes, the ants flew back on me and stung the poop out of me with their vicious venom. These were fire ants by the way, not little baby carpenter ants. After a couple hours overall, my superwoman abilities brought peace to the world again. Well, I still have to refold the clothes, but that can wait until tomorrow!
The positive thing is that I found some clothes shoved back behind the drawers that I haven’t seen in a long time, so they’re like new…
I was folding a load of blues, which consisted of pajamas, underwear, and workout clothes. After a few minutes, the whole basket was folded into piles of like items spread out on my bed. I had a small pile of underwear in my right hand and a short stack of t-shirts in the other. I put the underwear in my upper right dresser drawer, then bent down to put the t-shirts in the lower left dresser drawer. As I pulled the handle and the drawer came out, I was shocked by what was inside!
I found ants, thousands of stupid ants‼! They were scurrying around as if I had just disrupted their ant bed, you know outside, in the ground, where they’re supposed to be! The only thing I could think was to get them out of my house. I rolled the empty hamper over and filled it full of the ant-infested clothes from my drawer. I quickly pushed the hamper outside onto the back porch. I could deal with that later. I had to hurry and get rid of the ants still in the house.
I didn’t want to spray the ant killer from the can into my drawer so it could seep into the wood and ruin it forever! So, I got a wet paper towel and started killing by hand. I swiped them up in the towel while mashing down, then ran to the sink to drown them. I know it sounds inhumane, but they were ants infesting my t-shirt drawer‼
Eventually the mass majority had bit the dust. I decided to check the other drawers and sure enough the drawer above was infested as well. I got an empty basket, filled it with the infested clothes, and ran it outside with the now-infested hamper. I proceeded to kill the ants in the shorts drawer, and luckily that’s where it stopped. I didn’t hesitate to use the ant killer spray along the edge of the carpet behind the dresser and on the lower edge of the dresser.
I took a moment to breathe. Now, it was time for me to handle the ant-infested mess outside. I had put all of the clothes into the hamper and used the basket for the clothes that were now pest-free. I must have gone through 25 articles of clothing outside where it was like 100 degrees. I had to shake out each piece of clothing, sometimes beat it against the railing, flip it inside-out, and do it again…not a fun way to spend my afternoon.
Of course the wind was blowing profusely, which meant that as I shook out the clothes, the ants flew back on me and stung the poop out of me with their vicious venom. These were fire ants by the way, not little baby carpenter ants. After a couple hours overall, my superwoman abilities brought peace to the world again. Well, I still have to refold the clothes, but that can wait until tomorrow!
The positive thing is that I found some clothes shoved back behind the drawers that I haven’t seen in a long time, so they’re like new…
The Bottom of the Hamper
I HATE ants. We have been getting them lately and can't wait for the pest control people to arrive on Friday!
ReplyDeleteTerrible of course, but funny!
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