Observation (true story)

She came home from work and immediately headed for the bathroom. A habit left over from her school days, holding it in, waiting for her own private sanctuary.

Today her sanctuary had a guest. A piece of minty green dental floss was inching its way very slowly across the floor.

Her attention piqued, she inspected it further. One lonely, very determined ant, had staked claim to her discard. She watched his labor for a while, took note of his progress, and headed to bed.

After an hour or two she awakened and remembered her guest. Checking on his progress she found he had moved only an inch and had most surely tired himself greatly because he was only a tiny sleeping speck. She tickled him with the floss and he latched back on in his highly determined manner and immediately made a good half-inch of progress. She wondered where his friends were. Ants usually work in groups, she thought to herself. She would help if she could but he wasn't telling her where he was headed.

She busied herself around the house and decided to check on him a few hours later. Again he was curled into a tiny sleeping speck. When she tickled him with the floss he no longer responded

If only his friends had known.
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