Ants in my pants

Looking back it is very funny. Then, it was very frightening.

I was in the yard with my friend (Ronney H. I think) playing near with some small ant hills. I had my knees bent for quite a long time as I poked a stick at their hole in the ground and herded them around. I stood up to move on to other things when suddenly my legs began to tingle. Since I had just left-off irritating the ants I quickly assumed that they were attacking me.

I screamed as was my style and several adults came to my aid. As I complained about hundreds of ants crawling around in my pant's legs Mom took me to the bathroom to check. Of course, there were none to be found. I had just had my first encounter with that feeling one gets when the legs wake up from being "asleep". I did not realize this was the case for many years but I always remember the revenge of the ants.