Them.....part ll

 

           "THEM"

"Yep, the early 50's,". Andy Ant continued, "the nest was in the desert of New Mexico, had been forever, we tend to stay in one place, when the humans came into our area and started building towns. Now from an ant pov humans can be annoying, no offense, Bob" said Andy with a wiggle of his antennae. "None taken," said Bob raising his cup to Andy, "we kinda feel the same way toward ants."
"Fair enough", replied Andy. "Any way the good thing about humans is that they always and I mean always have sugar and leave some around where a hard working ant can find some.
So when we saw that the humans were building a town, the Queen sent the scouts out who soon returned to the nest with the good news of sugar in abundance. So out went the collection crews. Well, for a long time life was good. All the sugar the nest could want  and TV.

“TV ?"  Asked Grrr.” 

"Well, we, ah sorta, found a TV and projector that the humans left behind and a  generator.   One of the fellas figured out how to attach it to a treadmill for power and we disguised the antenna as a cactus plant.

Now, you kids have no idea what TV was like back in the 50's .."Father Knows Best..The Gail Storm Show.."26 Men" and the "Million Dollar Movie"....good clean stuff that the whole nest could enjoy.  
That is where I got my love for the movies".
"Anyway, one day there was this big bang and a very bright flash.
Well, now it did not hurt the nest none as we tend to go out at night, cooler in the desert, and we were deep in our home. First thing we noticed was that that nice town and all the sugar was gone. blown to bits. That did make the nest sad for a spell But the queen said that we had to put it behind us and get on with being ants.
Well , you know the strangest thing was the the nest seemed to shrink and we had to do a powerful lot of work re sizing it."  

“SO, ASKED BOB, “YOU GUYS DID NOT REALIZE THAT YOU WERE GETTING BIGGER?”

“Nope", replied Andy Ant,“I guess that that may seem strange, but all we saw were other ants from our nest; we  don’t get along too kindly with strangers, so don’t live near them, and we were all getting big.

 You lived in the desert Bob?” Andy asked. 
“25 Years.” replied Bob.

 “So, you know that there is not much to measure yourself against. Any way we just grew , enjoyed some sugar on the Queen’s Birthday and did our ant thing.  Except for TV of course.” 

   To be continued.