Exterminate, Exterminate
Friday, January 10, 2025
The Ant Exterminator has just been (and left) after squiring all primary corners and skirting boards of our apartment with some toxic chemical and the advice, “…don’t breathe this in, it’s harmful to humans and pets.”
What? wtf
When the OH said they had informed the Front Desk we had a few ants, here and there, I thought they’d send someone from maintenance to take a look first, and see if anything drastic was warrented. Because, to be honest, as someone who’s live half her life in sub tropical countries and knows what an ant invasion looks like - and this ain’t it. This was not a problem (yet) and didn’t necessitate a full on NBC attack on what amounted to, 4-5 ants through out the apartment, every other hour.
Now, if it were long lines stretching across half the apartment of hundreds of ants at a time on a route march to find food, then, that’s a different matter altogether. In that case I’d be advising we move to another building or apartment block far far away as, once you have ants, you have ants for life.
There are several billion ants per human on this planet, squirting a toxic chemical at them is tantamount to an act of war. One that will have repercussions let me tell you, I know from experience. Yet, trying to tell the OH this fact was like talking to your cat asking it to understand molecular physics.
Ants do not mess around. Humans will lose this battle every time.