It was a usual hot evening of May'09. We felt it hotter as it was a first summer after spending two winters of negative temperatures in Switzerland.
I was having a sip of hot coffee in my balcony when I heard a scream for help. that was my wife asking for something. Upon reaching to the kitchen, I observed a mass of red ants spread in the kitchen. Wow..... That used to be a usual siting in Malegaon, but was first in many years after leaving my HOMETOWN. I asked her to ignore it as it was a sort of natural stuff.
However, after a few days, we realized that it was not that simple, the Ants starting roaming in entire house searching for food. Here, I started feeling a bit uncomfortable and then decided to use poison to kill them all. I bought the poision but could not use it on to those innocent tiny creatures. I felt pitty on them....
Once while reading Urdu Digest Huma, I saw a little Ant trying to drag a big piece of bread but unable to. I tgought that a little help be appreciated so I lifted the food partilcle and placed it near the gate of their town Centre. At the time I realized that they are just trying to gather food for themselves and have no intentions to disturb us. So I made a habbit of putting some pieces of bread for them after dinner. And yes, the stopped roaming in my house.
To my horror, a week later, they started conquering the neighbourhood again.... Being sad of a failed experiment, I spend a few moments, to realize that its not just food, they need water also... ;-) So I started putting few drops of water near the entrance of their town Centre and they all surely used to enjoy it.
Next week, the party was with Red Bul and not the Coke.... Well, OMG !!! I thought of serving little Ants with Red Bull, but I was a bit scared aif they reject my proposal....!!! Then I thought that that success comes with ladder of failures, I decided to give it a try.
The first drop went on, within seconds, the smell spread everywhere around the Town Centre... Then I saw a big ant, kind of a wise man, coming slowly near it..... doing something....; I still wish I would have bought a microscope to observe and record their expressions; then running back to town Centre. I thought the wise man has carried some news to the army, errr what news, I was not sure. Then there was a group of some 10 to 15 ants along with the wise man to enquire about the sea of something new they found.
The wise man first dared to have a sip; I was observing closely; it ran towards town center like never before. I laughed as I thought that it has got extra energy, and would be a good idea to feed them everyday to make their task easy... But Alas, after a few inches, it stopped like when somebody pulls chain of speeding train; stopped, stopped... and moved not.
I was scared that the wise man is no more and I am the one to poison him. I looked closely, he was certainly dead. I wated to touch him then thought my finger weight would be far enough to crush his body so decided to touch him with a ball pen nib.
And then there came a height of happiness...! He was alive, but kind of a kinda drunk man. !!!!!
Initially I was not sure if he was sort of drunk or got sick of Red Bul, and was searching on internet the cure for Ants if they drink Red Bull!!!!
But later on, I realized that the Wise Man enjoyed it and the other ants followed the same.....
then I used to have a bottle of Red Bull kept in my kitchen for partying with the Ants....
Alas, I left the house three months back and have no idea how are my friends now.....
