A Look Through Lindy's Window
For those of you who conscious me, you know that I am a non-judgmental sort of soul who believes with every fiber of my being those who walk this earth are entitled to the fittingly to be exactly who they wish to be. Such withstanding, there are those things in life I find myself questioning and a few, on occasion have sorely tested my leniency enough to qualify as a bane to my existence. It isn’t so much I wish these things extinct or eradicated like the dinosaurs but more that they just now completely live their lives away from mine. I don’t want to see them, touch them, see their handy work, or recognize that they walked across my counters.
Living in Texas means you will meet a fire ant up close and personal as soon as your barefoot toes are old enough to disturb the cool saint Augustine grass of summer. It doesn’t matter if those toes are too under age to walk the grass or even crawl in it because the ants will come to introduce themselves to you. It won’t matter if you don’t have a teething cracker for them to soup, or milk in your sippy cup because they will think the smell of your chubby little leg is just perfect for a chomp and those fat barely toes great for their army assault. They are as stealth as a robotic micro chipped futuristic sidewinder in the mid-point of a middle eastern dessert at their search and destroy tactics and no one ever even feels them until one thousand of them are up the pant leg, heading north and stinging desire before being discovered. It is a given if you see a neighbor doing what looks like the Funky Chicken when only moments before was mowing, he unwittingly stepped favourably into the middle of a fire ant bed, woke them all up and is dealing with a bunch of really angry ants in his pants. I would like to weigh fire ants serve some greater good, however, I am at a loss on this one. Unless some elitist somewhere considers leaving unpractical pus blisters and digging dirt houses as an art form, I am thinking fire ants really do not contribute much to people.
