That Was Frackin' Weird

from JoeUser Forums

I'm staying in a reasonably decent motel, a Days Inn. It looks clean and reasonably well maintained. Not a five star place of course, but not a flea bag joint either. I hopped into the shower and was enjoying a nice, hot shower when I looked up at the shower head and it was covered with tiny little ants! I could see them crawling out of the seam in the plastic shower head, by the thousands. Holy shit!

That was a new one on me. I can honestly say I have never in my life seen a shower head infested with ants.

Naturally I hopped out, toweled off, and called the front desk. I told the guy there he needed to double time it up to my room, and told him why. He sounded like he thought I must be imagining things or something, but agreed to come up. I escorted him into the bathroom and showed him the ants crawling all over the shower head. He said he had never seen such a thing before and helped me move my things to another room well down from that one. He also said he would let the manager know they needed to get the extermination company in to spray.

I doubt spraying will help. If the little buggers are coming out of the shower head they are inside the walls. Simply spraying isn't likely to help much.

Ah well, it's always something new isn't?

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

I had a swarm of ants come up through my shower drain one time.  Freaked me out too.  But at least I saw them before I got in the shower.  I washed them down and never saw them again but it was literally like an ant hill in the bottom of my shower. 

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Hey Mason, where was this?  What State? 

Creepy. 

 

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

LOL  It would have triple freaked me out.  I would have been naked and screaming in the hallway.

But my 5-year-old would have loved it!!!  LOL  you got to think like a 5-year-old boy in these situations!  All those "ant friends"!!!!!

Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top

Quoting Boudica, reply 1
I had a swarm of ants come up through my shower drain one time.  Freaked me out too.  But at least I saw them before I got in the shower.  I washed them down and never saw them again but it was literally like an ant hill in the bottom of my shower. 
End of Boudica's quote

Then drain I could understand, but the shower head????

Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top

Quoting KFC, reply 2
Hey Mason, where was this?  What State? 

Creepy. 

 
End of KFC's quote

'Twas in Florida.

Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top

Quoting trish, reply 3
LOL  It would have triple freaked me out.  I would have been naked and screaming in the hallway.

But my 5-year-old would have loved it!!!  LOL  you got to think like a 5-year-old boy in these situations!  All those "ant friends"!!!!!
End of trish's quote

:LOL: The only thing that sort of freaked me out was the fact they were in the shower head, which, needless to say, is a damned odd place for ants to be.

Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top

Well Mason seems to be MIA again.  That boy just doesn't keep in touch much these days.  I know he will turn up but where and when?   X|  

Reply #8 from JoeUser Forums Top

Quoting notronaj, reply 7
Well Mason seems to be MIA again.  That boy just doesn't keep in touch much these days.  I know he will turn up but where and when?    
End of notronaj's quote

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