Friday, October 3, 2008

Flashback (Ants in the Syrup)

We've been having an ant issue at our house lately... Seriously I try to keep the house clean. I'm always doing the dishes and vaccuuming up crumbs but they just don't want to go away. So, I've been spraying for ants constantly. It's becoming a part of my daily routine. This whole ant thing has totally been bringing flashbacks of the early days of our marriage. I realize that many of you have heard this story before, but for the purpose of documenting it on my blog, I'll share it again:
One day about a year after we got married, Bryan woke up and decided to make waffles. When they were finished, he called me in to eat. I was very hungry, and so I ate my waffle REALLY fast. I happened to glance at his plate because he was not yet through, and I noticed that there were tiny dead black ants all around the edges of his plate. In awe, I asked him what was going on, and he told me that there were ants in the syrup bottle. He had picked all of his ants out! He said that he hadn't told me because he knew that if he had, I wouldn't have eaten mine, and that he didn't want to waste any syrup. I was furious especially since we had a brand new unopened bottle of syrup sitting right there.

I've since forgiven him. It's taken about 6 1/2 years (ha,ha), lots of apologies and explanations from him on how he had learned this "Waste Not/Want Not" stuff on his mission to Guatamala, etc. But, to this day, I NEVER pour syrup on my waffles without first holding the bottle up to the light to check for ants. I'm so paranoid!

Hopefully I can get this ant problem fixed soon...

1 comment:

  1. Oh MY! That is nasty! lol. Oh, man. The strangest place we have ever had ants was in our CAR in Florida! Not just a few ants... an entire colony had taken up residence in our car! horrible.

    Try ant motels... they really work!
    (My mom says the black ones from Home Depot worked best for her ant problem)

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