21. Ants in my computer

In writing this blog post, I am joined by a number of tiny ants. Let me try to explain how this happened.

Yesterday, I was going to my room before lunch, and I realised I didn't have the key to my room. I usually have my key tucked into my trousers when I don't have any pockets in my trousers, and the key wasn't there. It hadn't fallen down into my trousers either, so I was sure it must have slipped out when I ran after the donkeys (who had run around like mad earlier). I tried to look for it in the places I knew I had been running, but finding a key in grass taller than three centimetres is nearly impossible without a metal detector. I gave up and went to tell Stina about it, for my room was locked. She referred me to someone who had spare keys, but the spare key for my room couldn't be found. I was getting desperate and I was beating myself up about losing the key. After lunch, I was told to try all the spare keys in my door, but none of them fit. Then, miraculously, the spare key to my room was found! I don't know where it was found, but my room was open, and I had the key that fit! I was told to return it in the morning again so that they could make a copy of it.

So I did, leaving my room open the whole day. I didn't want to leave my valuables (computer, camera etc.) in my room, so I left it in Kristina's room, which she locked. I left my computer sitting on her bed, and this was where the big mistake was made. Apparently, there were attractive things in that bed for ants, and, of course, they discovered my computer. So they literally infiltrated the computer, and I didn't see them until I turned my computer on. The ants were running to and fro across my keyboard (and screen). Needless to say, I didn't like this one bit. I took my computer out in the hall, shook it and blew on it till I nearly fainted. Then I went inside and started writing this blog post, but all along I've been squishing ants and flicking them away. It makes for some interesting spellings, with 56 in the middle of a  word because an an6t (see there, an ant on the key for 6, just as I was writing the word 'ant') had just walked over those two keys.

Now I think most of them are either dead from the heat from my computer, or killed by me. I hope I don't get an infestation like this again. Who knows what this might do to my computer... Let's hope it pulls through.

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