Subay.
It’s the Hiligaynon word for ants. Actually, it’s the Hiligaynon word for one ant — if you have more than one ant or a group of ants — it’s mga subay.
Mga Subay.
In our apartment, my son calls me Ant Killer.
“When ants will see you Mommy they will shout to each other … ANT KILLER!” he tells me this every time I thump up and down the stairs holding a 30%-extra-for-the-same-price can of Baygon.
Truly, I don’t like killing ants (or anything for that matter) but ants in my bed, ants in my undies, ants in the kitchen, on the floor, in my lunch/coffee/dinner, stairs, couch, kitchen table, office desk, laundry clothes, shoes. It gets a bit much.
So when my 11-year-old shoved past my MacBook Pro a few weeks back to grab at a mango smoothie and spilled the sticky liquid down over the keyboard and deep into that long horizontal space between the main body of the computer and the screen. I was not at all pleased.
And like Nostradamus, I was spot on — only my prediction was confirmed within a few short hours rather than half a millennia — ANTS.
Subay.
MGA SUBAY.
Little black ants that sting. Living in my laptop.
Do I need to write more?
