This morning, when I went to get my three little buns to eat for breakfast, I found them crawling with little ants. They had obviously been working at eating my breakfast for several hours, judging from the holes they had already chewed in my bread.
Findings like this are not unusual here in Thailand, but our response to them has changed somewhat over the past year and a half. As I was bemoaning the fact that my breakfast was already being consumed by uninvited guests, Roy grabbed my buns and started throwing them on the floor, picking them up and inspecting them carefully, then throwing them on the floor some more.
I watched him serenely, but then it struck me that he was now throwing my breakfast on the floor so that I could eat it! I am still giggling. At least we haven’t started ADDING bugs to our food! When that happens, then I will know that it is time for me head to that Missionary retreat and rehab center in Oklahoma that my brother keeps telling me that I need to attend. (his house)
You will be happy to know that the ants won the battle, and I will go hungry this morning… but I wasn’t that hungry anyway.
I laughed. 🙂 At least we’re all in good company. Can’t quite believe it anymore, but I remember finding some small bug or other in some greens back in the States and being so grossed out that even after the bug was eliminated I wouldn’t touch any of the rest of it – the funny thing is that I still remember that.