# the ant on the head goes round and round

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 21, 2013, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ant-on-the-head-goes-round-and-round/656312 "2013-04-21T15:43:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2013, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ant-on-the-head-goes-round-and-round/656312/1 "2013-04-21T15:43:06Z")

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Can’t get more mundane and pointless

Last night I ran a hot bath and as I settled back to soak I see a little bit of movement out of the corner of my eye.

There’s a little black ant on the shower head.  
He (or she) is running counter clockwise around the edge.  
Over and over and over.  
He disappears, now he’s back, running clockwise this time. Round and round and round.

He turns around and goes back around counter clockwise. Disappears again and he’s back, clockwise again

I wonder how many times he will run around this shower head before he figures out he is running in circles. What is he hoping to find? How long before his little legs get tired and he loses his grip and falls into the tub with me :eek: Will he run himself to death? Starve? Drop dead from exhaustion?

Twenty minutes later he’s still running around the shower head.

For all I know he could still be running around the shower head.  
Except I flicked him into the water and let him go down the drain.

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**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2013, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ant-on-the-head-goes-round-and-round/656312/2 "2013-04-21T15:46:17Z")

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I’ve said it before, but I so love reading your posts.

They’re like free-verse poetry.

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**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2013, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ant-on-the-head-goes-round-and-round/656312/3 "2013-04-21T16:22:49Z")

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Thank you

You make me :😊: