Ants in my Pants

Sept 29, 2010 – Joyce has oft commented that if she finds a ant crawling on her, that she feels that they are crawling all over her.  Phantom ants.  She said this morning that she even felt that way as she plucked one of the little crawlers off me.

I know the feeling she’s talking about.  I feel the phantom ants too.

Really bad this morning. 

I had some clothes washed on Monday.  Forgot to retrieve from the clothesline until this morning.  I should say that we do get ants on our drying clothes most of the time.  We try to shake them out when we put them away, but that is not always successful.  It seems they disappear soon if you just put the clothes away.  At least I haven’t noticed any ants on clothes I pull off the hanger or out of the drawer.

So this morning (Wednesday) I go to retrieve the clothes so I can wear some of them.  And of course there are a few ants i spot.  I shake and pick off the ones I see as I take the clothes down.  I take the clothes in and lay them down for a while, just to see of any more ants appear.  A few do and I go over the clothes I want to wear, inside and out, picking and crushing the ants I find.  Got them I think.

Well, got the ones I saw.  I started finding more within minutes.  Picking and crushing.  Joyce and I both got a number as we walked up to CGA and sat in the bible study.  That’s when you comment about feeling them even though they were on me.

But I was feeling them crawling on my skin two.  But when I looked I saw only phantom ants.  Yeah of course. 

Well not really all phantom ants.  I under my shirt to scratch another phantom and came up with a live one that I promptly crushed.  Guess I didn’t get them all out of my clothes and I’m not imagining the ants crawling around on me, at least not totally.

Just hoping that it is phantom ants I’m feeling crawling under my baseball cap.

Signing out,

Paul