Sayid who?

We’ve been having some ant problems lately, probably because we’ve left some food out. Some PineSol or similar cleaner usually does the trick to erase their scent trail and keeps them from coming back, but sometimes a few stray ants still make their way onto the kitchen counter. I resort to squashing them with my hand, or—if they’re close enough to the sink—washing them down the drain. Turns out I’m quite the unimaginative killer compared to my wife:

Exhibit A: one night, after cleaning up the kitchen counter

C: Did you know that if you want to drown an ant, you don’t have to immerse them totally in water?

Me: Huh?

C: Yeah, you just leave them in a pool of water. They’ll slowly suck up the water and die slow and painful deaths. I learned that in Davis.

Yikes. They teach you to be more than just a lawyer over there. Look out, Henry Gale.

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