Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for March 27, 2012

Heh, my brother’s car has ants in it.

Ants in the pants…and elsewhere.

We don’t have ants in our car, but we get them unseasonably in that wretched period between November and February where the ants don’t seem to understand that they’re not supposed to come out in wintertime. Spring will only make that worse.

Ants? How about scorpions?I once found a tarantula too.

I lived w/ my Dad the last few months of his life and we always had ants. He detested the critters. After he died, I never saw another ant in that house. I swear he got to heaven and proceeded to stamp out every ant in the area!

Snort! Forget bugs, I had a mouse once. Friggin’ scared me. I lived at the time surrounded by grapevine and orange fields, and couldn’t park by the house due to my parents taking those spots.

My sister has a car like that, and she doesn’t even have kids.

Mice are much more common in cars than you can imagine. They like to hang out under the hood, make nests in odd places and chew insulation of wiring.

Better Ants Than Aunts !!!

Well that just made my skin crawl…C’mon, someone out there has that little insect that crawls around your post. :-)

Never had ants in the car, but do get a spider every now and then—have made my parents almost drive off the road a couple times… :P

I was thinking this strip was a bit unrealistic today, even when my kids were small & leaving McD’s fries in the car I never had ants, but reading the posts makes me think I got off lucky LOL. I have however gotten flies, bees, wasps & mosquitoes in my car if I’ve left the window open in the heat of summer.

Ewwww. I’ve never had ants in my car. Only the occasional flying insect has gotten in. My car gets cluttered, but, not stained.

My grown family all think my car is clean, and I suppose it is, compared to theirs! I never allowed any of the things in my car that they do, and now all I ever have to do is dust, vacuum and clean the windows inside. As for the outside, I take it to a car wash where they do it all for me.

We had an episode of a bumblebee in our car when our oldest was a year old. It buzzed around awhile and then flew out the window. Whew!

Ew! Where’s the bug spray?

Lol! Don’t blame you… “…you’re putting condensation on everything!!” heehee