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I feel like I'm living in the movie Idiocracy.

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Submitted by PrincessCupcake on Fri, 08/14/2015 - 3:04am

SS13 keeps a plastic tray on his bed to set his cups on. He's got a nightstand, but whatever.

We've been having issues with sugar ants this year. I walk past his bed, and he's got an ant trap on his tray, with a ring of dead ants all around it.

Me: Why do you have an ant trap on your tray?

SS: I had some soda and spilled a little bit and all these ants came, so I put the trap there and it's working.

Me: *eyes rolling* Why didn't you just wipe the tray off?

SS: Oh yeah, that's a good idea.

Is it possible to face palm harder than Captain Picard?

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Submitted by PrincessCupcake on Fri, 08/14/2015 - 8:31am

For the moment his bedroom is an alcove in our living room, because BM surprised us by turning a summer visit into him living here permanently. Looking for a larger place as we speak, and as soon as he has a room, no food or drinks allowed in it. It's just hard to say that about the living room when we ourselves have drinks it it.

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Submitted by fakemommy on Fri, 08/14/2015 - 9:15am

Well not really considering he's a child and you guys are adults and you guys pay for your home and pest control and he doesn't. A child does not have the right to the same freedoms as adults.

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Submitted by robin333 on Fri, 08/14/2015 - 9:15am

I swear my house was built on an ant hill. Any time I see one inside, I go crazy with the bleach. I think your SS is acting like a boy, fascinated by how the ants respond to the trap, it's like ant crack. Those buggers can't help themselves to the point of drowning themselves in it. I too have been mesmerized watching them but outside of course! I think it's a teenager thought process that doesn't equate no sugar in room equals no ants on my tray. Lol.

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Submitted by robin333 on Fri, 08/14/2015 - 9:45am

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll have to try that. I pay for a service that treats outside quarterly (more frequently when needed). Every house on my street has this problem, I think it's the climate.

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Submitted by PrincessCupcake on Fri, 08/14/2015 - 8:07pm

Borax is such a beautiful thing. And I totally forgot to get some at the store the other day.

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