Little Black Ants

Although my usual policy is live and let live, there are exceptions to that rule. One I have just had to implement. When we moved into this place a few months back, we did notice that there were a lot of little black ants outside. Now as long as they stayed outside, we didn’t bother them. Only when they tried to come inside did we try and prevent that, but otherwise basically left them alone outside, under the theory derived from my Mum during my childhood that little ants did not bite, only the big ones did!

Well that seemed to be true too of our Little Black ants here. Well at least until recently when we discovered that they do indeed bite and are quite painful too.

Well that was the end of trying to live and let live with our little black ants, and so a regime of total eradication has begun. Whether total eradication is really possible remains to be seen, but serious attempts are being made and currently being followed up, to totally eradicate them as a present and possible future threat.

Had they not started biting, then the peace would have continued, but not so now! And I couldn’t help wondering if many of our social relationships are a bit like that? You know, everything is going along fine and people getting along even if not totally connected to one another, and then suddenly one side starts intruding on the other and one side starts fighting back, only to have the bigger (and not necessarily the party in the right) starting a total eradication programme to get rid of the one who started the fight, although often not the original problem.

What is the answer to this situation? I don’t know! I was hoping you could tell me. But something will need doing unless one side is to be completely destroyed or removed! What say you? Catch you later: Walter