Aug 13, 2006 16:50
On my way back to my house from the Spanish house I saw a path of red ants crossing the sidewalk that leads up to the Russian house. There must have been hundreds or maybe even thousands of them in total, because the line (it wasn't a single file line, more just a mob of them all going the same direction maybe three inches across, but I can't think of a word for that) just kept coming and it continued a fair way into the grass on either side. I couldn't tell either where they were coming from or going to, but as I followed them backwards through the grass to try and find their originiation point, I noticed that there were a few black ants there too, but they were not getting along. It reminded me a lot of SimAnt, which I haven't played in a long time. I saw one black ant and one red one fighting each other, and surprisingly the black one won and then carried around the balled up remains of the red one somewhere. I expected the red one to win, if for no other reason than because he had the masses to back him up (and the fact that I always lost in SimAnt and you played as the black ones, so the red ones were always killing me). It was pretty amazing.