The ants go marching seven by seven

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When you stumble into the kitchen at 6:15am still blearily rubbing sleep from your eyes, that's NOT what you want to see skittering across the floor.

*shivers*

And these were BIG ants.  After conducting extensive Google research, I'm 95% certain they're carpenter ants.  Carpenter ants are BAD.  BIG BAD.  Have I mentioned that we live on the top floor of our building?  Yeah.  The little big suckers were all congregated along the baseboard where the sink is, which is on the wall shared with the building's hallway (as in, these suckers didn't crawl up four stories, prance across our balcony, traverse the carpet in the living room, before trekking across the lino in the kitchen: they're likely in said shared wall.  Which means bugs.  In the walls.  Ew.  We had also seen two similar ants in the elevator last weekend, so they're not *just* in our unit (nor are they in any other room of our unit - y'know, where there are windows for ingress)).

I squished the first two with my slipper, but when more and more kept appearing (I think they were preparing to avenge their brothers' deaths), I grabbed the Raid and drowned the little fuckers.

*shivers again*

I called Chebbar later this morning to see if he had seen any ants.  Ants, you say?  Well, I'll take that as a no.  But, hark!  What's this he finds?  THREE MORE.  How the HELL am I supposed to sleep tonight?!?

*shivers harder*

I told him that I guessed I'd better call the strata management company; he suggested I ask if anyone else has been complaining about ants.

(Oh, and for the record?  We're not Grossy McHoardersons who have garbage and food all over, SWEAR TO BABY JEEBUS.)

So, I called.  I explained.  I completely forgot to ask if anyone else has been having a problem (THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS! I SHOULDN'T MAKE IMPORTANT PHONE CALLS!).  Strata Dude *immediately* said he'd call pest control, and fairly tripped over himself in stating that as far as he was concerned, this was a strata issue (that right there seems to say to me that other people probably have complained).  He said that the pest control company generally makes a visit on the same day.

We still haven't heard from them.  Chebbar has killed three MORE big, fat, black, icky, creepy ants.

*shivers even harder. again.*