#100 Blogfest - Guest Post by author Martin King
Kids can be cruel sometimes, to anything.
So it is regret I recall my childhood fetish for killing ants. No I didn’t
murder them, I loved those little six-legged critters, they provided me with so
much fascination and entertainment.
Have you ever watched that film called A Fistful of Dollars?
A stranger arrives at the little Mexican
border town of San Miguel. It’s that film where a bitter feud exists between
two families vying to gain control of the town. In rides a stranger (Clint Eastwood)
and ends up being a gun for hire and watches as both sides wipe each other out.
Well one particular holiday (more than
likely Wales because that is where we always went, but I can’t exactly
remember), we travelled to a small town. We stopped in a caravan which was
highly unusual for us as we always stopped in tents.
I remember so clearly hearing this loud
rumble coming from the heavens and as I stepped out of the caravan seeing what
I could only describe as an alien spaceship. It was immense and filled half the
sky – later I found out it was what was known as a V-Bomber. But that is a
different story, but why not Google it and see what they looked like, pretty
impressive.
So like I say, I played the role of the
stranger, on the one side of the camp site were the Rojo brothers (red ants)
and on the other the sheriff and family (black ants). Well I learnt that if you
got a few red ants and a few black ants, such was their hate for each other,
they would fight until all that was left was a writhing tangle of disembodied
limbs.
Now I thought this was amazing. What self
respecting young boy wouldn’t? But a few casualties in one go wasn’t enough, I
had smelt blood and I wanted more. So I discovered that by taking a few of the
red ants to the black colony, helping them take out a few of the guards and
helping them escape back to their nest, they were able to get all their
brothers and uncles and cousins and army mates and bring the war back to the
colony.
The ending was just like the film and I was
the only one left standing!
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I don't think you can be sent to goal for committing insecticide.
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