Saturday, November 25, 2006

Lil' Six-Legged Bastards

If ants in America were as fast, cunning, and effective as the ants here in Thailand, they would hold a majority of Congress right now, as well as The Stanley Cup.

10 minutes.

That's how much time passes between setting something down on a table, and coming back and finding a dozen ants having a fiesta. That number doubles about every 10 minutes after that.

I'm going to have to spray.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

You can buy special little "double" cup things for table legs. There is an inner and outer cup - the table leg sits in the inner one, and you then fill the gap between the outer and inner cups with water. The ants cant get up the table leg cos they have to cross the water to reach it,

Jil Wrinkle said...

I've actually seen Thai people just set the table legs inside of saucers, and pour water in them as well.

Doesn't work too well when it comes to the kitchen counter, unfortunately.