Wandering ants can really get themselves in trouble if they aren't careful. A horde of them wandered into my car once, they shorted out the radio. Until they started dying, shriveling up and falling off. It took a few weeks, but the radio started working again. Except for when I drove over the railroad tracks right outside work. Then, whatever poor little ant carcass was still in the radio would short it out and the signal would crackle in and out until I was back on smooth pavement. That lasted about a year before the dead ant either blew away or something else in the radio ate it.
That's disturbing. You're emotionally scarred and will end up badly.
Anya ,'Bring On The Night'
Spike's Bitches 22: You've got Angel breath
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
SailAweigh - Mar 02, 2005 7:48:34 am PST #4025 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Calli - Mar 02, 2005 7:52:01 am PST #4026 of 10001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Goodness, SailAweigh. I'm picturing such a wee steampunk existence for the ants in your car. All hot and noisy, with death one wire away.
I want someone to make an animated film about this.
SailAweigh - Mar 02, 2005 7:54:32 am PST #4027 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
I know! I'd never had ants get in a car before. It was the strangest thing. And I had no idea how to get rid of them, but they seemed to find their own method of mass destruction so I just left them to it.
brenda m - Mar 02, 2005 7:55:47 am PST #4028 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I've never had ants in my car. Once I had just started to drive to work and a cat popped up from inside the hatchback.
Ginger - Mar 02, 2005 7:58:11 am PST #4029 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I know a car radio that nuked an ant, then crackled and popped 'til service was scant
I don't know why it nuked the ant
Perhaps I can't.
(I know. I probably need drugs.)
Steph L. - Mar 02, 2005 7:59:22 am PST #4030 of 10001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I have a headache and I think hotmail ate all my saved e-mail (which goes back about 4 or 5 years).
I would really like to go back to bed.
Cashmere - Mar 02, 2005 8:00:25 am PST #4031 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
That happened to me, teppy. The fuckers.
Steph L. - Mar 02, 2005 8:01:54 am PST #4032 of 10001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
That happened to me, teppy. The fuckers.
Recently?
Cashmere - Mar 02, 2005 8:07:56 am PST #4033 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
a couple of months back. After I switched to gmail, I didn't realize if I didn't log onto Hotmail every 30 days, they'd wipe out my inbox. They wiped it out completely.
Steph L. - Mar 02, 2005 8:10:24 am PST #4034 of 10001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
a couple of months back. After I switched to gmail, I didn't realize if I didn't log onto Hotmail every 30 days, they'd wipe out my inbox. They wiped it out completely.
Hmm. Hotmail is my primary e-mail. I check it, like, 100 times a day.
My inbox still has messages, as does Trash and Sent Messages -- those are the default Hotmail folders. The ones I seem to have lost are messages in custom folders I made to organize my messages -- one for freelancing, one for the tiara exchange, one for my writing class, etc.
The folders are still there, but all the messages in them are gone.