Last night i had to put the Chinese Food back in the fridge, because MiliCal had taken it out and forgot to put it back after she put the ants in the refrigerator.
She put the ants in the refrigerator to slow them down. They were Uncle Milton’s California Harvester Ants, which she just got in the mail for her Ant Farm.
Actually, it’s not just an Ant Farm. It’s an extreme Any Farm, with bunjee jumping, rock-climbing walls, a Skateboard Park, and a Road:
The ants aren’t really using any of these features, except the bungee jump – they climb down to the end of the “bungee cord” and deliberately drop off. To my surprise, the ants can’t climb the climbing wall, for some reason. This was upsetting MilliCal, along with the apparent fact that some ants were trapped in part of the farm. So she cooled the ants down in the fridge so that she could open the Farm without them getting away. (Clever, that kid) Only it didn’t work, and she was getting a little hyper. Dad rescued the Ant That Got Out, broke off a bamboo skewer and stuck it in the Rock Climbing Well so the ants could have an alternate route to that unclimable rock wall, and convinced her that the ants, being ants, would tunnel through to get to the food.
I used to pull things like this on my parents all the time – experiments in the fridge, random explosions in the basement. The Gods are getting even with me.
It’s not as if I or anyone has ever disbelieved a single pixel of your posts, but I would like to say that if authenticity has ever existed, it lies here:
Seven words that could be typed by noone but the father of a young girl scientist.
Best regards to you and MiliCal and each and every Ant Whether It Got Out Or Not, and I hope your Chinese food had lots of black pepper in it to start with.
Oh dear.
I have “snake food” (dead rats) in my freezer…
and no children to blame it on.
People who have pet tortoises sometimes put them in the fridge to hibernate over the winter. Apparently the crisper drawer can maintain the correct humidity, if your tortoises are wrapped in newspaper.
This begs for a “weirdest thing in your fridge” topic, doesn’t it?
Does she host a tank of tadpoles in the spring? That’s fun too. Mine lived on the kitchen table until they turned into wood frogs. http://flickr.com/photos/kimhotep/13738248
But that was when I was 29…there’s no way mom would have let me do that as a kid!
This made me laugh so hard, mainly because it sounds like something I would do, but forget to tell anyone else using the fridge…
Dad: Stef, where’s the …OH MY GOD TURTLE!!
Stef: It’s a tortoise. Leave 'im alone.
Dad: Well, what the hell is it doing in the crisper drawer? I think it ate the lettuce I bought.
Stef: Lettuce is in the other drawer.
And yes, the curse is true; when regaled with people’s young science experiments, particularly my godfather almost blowing up the house after mixing ammonium nitrate, pool chlorine and glycerin in a plastic cup, I know it’s true; he doesn’t have kids of his own but when he and my brother get together, it’s absolute mayhem.
I put ants in the fridge when I was around 9 or 10 for a school science project. When I took the ants to school someone loosened the cover I had on the goldfish bowl they were in and I never saw the ants again.
When I got older and had button quail for pets and raised a lot of baby birds I used to keep mealworms in the fridge, otherwise they’d turn into beetles. My family wasn’t too happy about it so I made sure to put their clear plastic bag inside a brown paper bag. A couple years ago I raised a duck and once again had mealworms in my fridge. She loved them, ate them like they were candy.
Not a couple of them. We woke up in the morning and the ants were ALL dead, all over their intricate little enclosure. It was like the ant version of Jonestown, only without little tubs of grape Flav-R-Aid.
What caused this? Why all at once? The refrigerator thing was days ago, and was temporary, and the ants easily could’ve passed through worse on their mail run here from Uncle Milton’s.
we’re gonna write to Unc. Milton and find out what the story is. Then we’ll probably get more ants. Joy.
I’m sorry, but I just refuse to believe that an ant could snap a bamboo skewer in the way you describe, let alone argue persuasively as you also claim.
Yeah, they’ll do that. That’s what ant farms are, little tiny insect Auschwitzes. I don’t know anyone who ever had one that lasted more than a week or two.
I have to say I never had any luck with ant farms with anything other than ants I caught myself. I mean ultimately they die unless you get a queen, which is very easy in the summer and very difficult the rest of the year.
I figured the mail order ants would be cool but they all up and died and then the replacements they sent me up and died too. I needed me some hardy ants, lol.
Dude, these were Xtreme Antz. They like realized that this whole farm thing was like bullshit and life is like meaningless and there was like no point in going on. Specially if they didn’t have no video games to chill with.
