Watch Yer Step!

by Stovohobo

Crunch.

“Oh dear.”

“That’s it? ‘Oh dear’? You just stepped on me, lady.”

“Oh, well, I’m so sorry, I didn’t notice you there!”

“Oh, of course you didn’t. Nobody notices ants anymore. Because that’s all I am in this world now, isn’t it? Just a friggin’ ant.”

“Well, you see, I didn’t mean to and—”

“Does it matter? Lady, do you realize that you just put all 200 pounds of you into that one step? And that that one step just happened to land on less than an ounce of ant, when there was about a million other square inches in this friggin’ parkin’ lot you coulda friggin’ stepped on?!?!”

“For your information, I weigh 170 pounds.”

“Coulda fooled me.”

“Why you liddle—”

“Whaaat? What more can you do? You already stepped on this poor, broken, weak shell of an ant. The world has thrown all it can at me! Look, lady, I gotta family to feed, rotten food to eat, you just had to take it all away, didn’t you?”

“I—”

“Oh, just shut up. And don’t ever step on me again.”

Comments

Average Reader Rating: 5.0 stars out of 5

  1. Watch Yer Step!

    Nouvelle Bardot's Buddy Icon Nouvelle Bardot

    Posted about 1 year ago

    5.0 out of 5 stars

    hilarious!

  2. Watch Yer Step!

    Batak Beatrix's Buddy Icon Batak Beatrix

    Posted about 1 year ago

    5.0 out of 5 stars

    Ah, the poor ants! I love the different perspective.

  3. Watch Yer Step!

    Stovohobo's Buddy Icon Stovohobo

    Posted about 1 year ago

    Thank you! It’s always fun mixing things up.

  4. Watch Yer Step!

    SKermitgorf's Buddy Icon SKermitgorf

    Posted about 1 year ago

    5.0 out of 5 stars

    what a complaining miserable ant.. i think I like your funniest stuff best.

  5. Watch Yer Step!

    Alexa ♥'s Buddy Icon Alexa ♥

    Posted about 1 year ago

    5.0 out of 5 stars

    Very funny to try it from the ant’s perspective, and I love that instantly the woman was insulted at being told she seemed thirty pounds heavier than she actually is. Too true.

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