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I was thinking about an experience I had that was kind of freaky and wonder if any of you had anything like it happen to you?

Ants are evil. Not as evil as spiders but evil. I will tell you how I know this. A few years ago I had a sore on my foot that was taking awhile to heal mostly because it itched and I couldn't resist scratching it which reopened it. (turned out I had a skin condition that had to be treated but anyway...)

One night I got up in the middle of the night and went into the bathroom and fell back asleep on the toilet. I woke up because my foot was hurting. I looked down and that wounded area was solid black. I was thinking "hmm..did I scratch it in my sleep and it scabbed over?" Then the black moved and I noticed ants crawling down the side of my foot. Basically, for some reason, they'd decided to harvest whatever was in that wound. The sound I made was the epitome of a girly scream.

Thanks for sharing!

Lol, it came up because I was on another forum where somebody related having an irrational fear of ants. This was my reply to tell them it wasn't irrational at all. Ironically, I didn't even know 1) that ants would do that and 2) that that house had any ants until that night.

Obviously, your foot was producing ant eggs and they hatched while you were on the throne. You're a mutant!

I find the more amazing part of that story is that you were able to fall asleep while on the john.

So the ants were evil for removing and carrying away dead/infected tissue or foriegn material that was in your body?

Oh, it's not that hard. I did it once after a long night of sushi and way too much sake. Not the most pleasant way to wake up in the morning, though.

Actually they'll tear apart the good flesh as well. Maggots avoid living tissue. And seriously wtf kinda story is this for 6am? GAH!

I agree that it's not that hard for some. Friend of mine passed out for about 2+ hours at a local restaurant after a good night of drinking. Even though it was obvious he was part of our table, it was still weird having to say "yes, he's with us" when confronted. Luckily, we were regulars at that time and it was over with after a few moments of awkward silence between us and the staff.

This was while my sleep apnea was still untreated. I was getting bad enough that I could fall asleep anywhere anytime, including while driving. Which is what led me to finally getting a sleep study done. Seriously, if you don't have severe sleep apnea, it's the closest to understanding narcolepsy I've come in my life.

Sounds more likely to be a situation where he passed out, not fell asleep. 

If you put a garden snail on your hand with its head over your fingernail, it'll eat your ragged cuticles. First step to a natural manicure! Ants, on the other hand, are a delicious snack. I wouldn't eat any inside the city because they're likely to be metabolizing somebody's insecticide in, but out in the woods if you come across a line of the larger ones, they're like candy: Crunchy, sweet and a little spicy. Make sure to squish them first or they'll bite your tongue.

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Yah, that wasn't creepy sounding at all.  Not one bit.

Better method for dead skin removal IMO:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_fish

Spoken like someone who's never had an ant in their drink.  That formic acid is BITTER.

Might depend on the ant species.  The Ohlone used to make miner's lettuce salad by putting the leaves on an anthill and letting the ants leave a dressing of formic acid on it before shaking them off and eating.  Supposedly it tastes like vinegar.

Well sure, if you let it steep. I wouldn't leave ketchup in my drink either.

When I was at a festival once in Texas I slept on a wooden state up from the ground on 4 stilts I had a sandwitch in my bag, wrapped up in all my clothes and my head on it as I was using it as a pillow.

When I woke up in the morning the sandwich was covered in Ants. Who had crawled up to the stage, across the floor, into my bag and through my clothes and chewed through a plastic bag to get to it.  :uhrr:

Ants are evil...

Sort of like the way my newborn leaves a dressing feces on his diaper?

Anyway, those fish are nice but good luck finding them if you don't know someone who already has them and breeds them. Most of the ones openly for sale are actually baby tilapia being sold by the scourge of all things moral, the fucking chinese. Also, they're illegal in a bunch of states on the basis that there's no way to sterilize them. Can't have fish nibbling on one person and then nibbling on a different person. I'm sure that's every bit as dangerous as needle sharing and whatnot.

My dog, when I was growing up, wandered into my brother's room and proceeded to dig at a box full of old toys. A box behind other boxes, in his closet. We shooed her out a few times, before finally saying 'screw it' and ignoring her in favor of RC Pro Am II (this dates me, yes). She gets to the box, knocks it down, roots through it, and retrieves a single ball that we used to use a chew toy. A ball that had been sitting in that box for at least two or three years. She walks off, chewing with all the happy satisifaction of a dog that apparently knew where that ball was the entire time, and had finally cleared out a few hours from her schedule to eat it.

It was surreal. Animals are weird.