ANTS!!!!

If you live in Southern California, and especially if you live in a desert climate, you are probably familiar with Argentine Ants.   These ants were brought to California from Brazil in the late 1800's and have made themselves quite at home here.  They killed off many native species of ants and when they get in your house and walls, they are a pain to get rid of.  So, why am I telling you this?  And what does this have to do with any story about my ex??   Well, that's the background some of you may need to understand the ludicrousness of this story.

In the year my ex filed for divorce, but was still living in the house and not paying ANY bills, and eating all our food, and other shit,  we had a very dry winter.  This means by June everything is DRY!  Bone Dry!  And the ants come out looking for food and water.  These ants are insidious(or industrious?) and get into the cracks in the stucco and into the walls of your house.  This time these ants happened to find their way into our pantry.  This was a walk-in pantry with lots of shelf space. Now mind you I had 3 kids under the age of 10 at the time.  So, you know, things get put back on the shelf and not secured, and there are an abundance of sugared cereals on the shelves.   I had to use ziplock bags for any items that the ants could(and would) get into.  I spent one ENTIRE evening(after working a 10+ hour day) cleaning up the pantry,  spraying the amonia around to kill the ant trails, and putting out some borax and sugar water bait for the ants to lovingly take back to their nests to kill all their friends, neighbors and relatives!

Next day after coming home from work, THIS IS WHAT I CAME HOME TO:  

SUGAR!!  Dumped all over the pantry for those tiny ants to FEAST on!!


Now that you are over the shock of it,  seems that his evil trick backfired in some respects.  The ants didn't want the dry sugar, they just wanted my "bait" that I set up.  But this did cause me several hours of clean up to get all the sugar out of all the cracks between the shelves and the walls of the pantry.  Sigh....