TIFU & spat in mother natures face after she gave me a chance at a nomadic life of freedom
So I left my bike out over the winter. Today I decided to go out and get it cleaned up & back into riding shape. When I opened the one of the saddle bags I saw a hundreds of ants inside, scurrying around with ant eggs.
Here’s where I fucked up: In a moment of shock I ripped the saddle bag off the bike and DUMPED THEM OUT ONTO THE PAVEMENT.
I still can’t believe it. This wasnt just free protein, this could’ve been my new life
Imagine what could’ve been - the open road, the wind blowing through my hair as I lived biking from campsite to campsite sustained by infinite free protein. At night, I could crack the saddlebag so that the ants could come out and collect food to replenish their numbers, then in the morning I could move on to the next campsite.
A chance like this comes along once in a lifetime and I blew it
Thanks for reading. I will now return to lying under a tree perfectly motionless with my mouth open in the hope that a bird poops in it
Edit: about an hour after I made this post, I was walking out to my bike (same place where the ants colonized it) and a bird shit on me. I am not joking, this is not a bit for /r/frugal_jerk, this actually happened