the ants go marching

[nolly]

OK, everyone around here has ant problems. Really. It's not simply a matter of housekeeping. THey aren't even in the kitchen, and I took out the bathroom trash yesterday, or maybe the day before, but recently. It's not even half full, and it's a small can.

But the ants I get seem to have a favorite food: blood. Specifically, bloody bathroom trash of the sort generated on a roughly monthly basis. I really wanted a nice warm bath tonight. Instead, I found a swarm of now-mostly-dead (because I squirted them with lysol soap scum prevention spray, because it was handy, and because it worked) streaming from the control knob for the shower, which is where they seem to be coming in, down the side of the tub, around the ant bait, across the toilet, and all over the trash can. There's no way I can take a bath tonight. Not in that tub, with all the dead ants and some live ones, because they keep coming out of the bloody wall and the spray I've used on them. I can get rid of the dead ants, and I will, but the live ones just. keep. coming. I hate it. It happens every time the weather gets hot. Maybe I'll just shower at work tomorrow. I really wanted a bath.

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[nolly.livejournal.com]

Somehow, I doubt it. There's this grey crumbly stuff out in the meter closet for us to use, and he'd probably just tell me to use that. I don't want it in my bath, and I'm pretty sure they're in the walls, so I don't think putting it outside would help. This happens a few times a year, and has for the three years I've lived here. The landlord is a jerk anyway.

But it does help to hear that it's not an uncommon problem.

One more reason to move soon. But probably not til 2004.