(08-20-2020, 06:21 PM)jagibelieve Wrote: This annoyance really isn't "trivial" to me since I am allergic.  FIRE ANTS!!!  I went to get something out of my truck.  I stood there for all of 5-10 seconds and walked back into the house.  All of the sudden I'm covered with fire ants and getting bitten.  After shedding my clothes and going out to check, sure enough there was a huge nest next to my truck that I never saw (I really need to cut my grass).

When my oldest daughter was just a diaper clad toddler, she sat or fell directly on a fire ant hill. I heard her screaming and saw them crawling all over her legs. I snatched her up and ran in the house and as I was pulling her diapers off while headed down the hallway to the bathroom they were crawling up my arms and biting the hell out of me. After rinsing them off in the bathtub the rash of bites around the diaper line of her upper legs was concerning. We gave her antihistamines and she slept it off while we kept an eye on her. She suffered well over a hundred bites. In hindsight it probably would have been best to take her to the ER, but I figured they would just knock her out with antihistamines too. 

Allergies are scary. An older guy in good health and physique who worked out at my old gym died after picking up a board that was covered in ants. The guy looked like he would live forever. It was a shock for everyone.

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