“1808! Ant! Aaaaant!”

I’ve been two days screaming and shouting like a fool, looking the ants come and go. It’s time to leave.

“Hey, Big Shoes! Where are you going? Don’t leave,” I heard someone told me from the floor.

 “Hey, is that you? What a great surprise! I’ve been two days looking for you.”

“Yes, I know, I’ve passed by a lot of times, but there was a telltale near me who is always squealing and, you know, if that happened I would go to Central Services or to the Central Warehouse and that would be…,” 1808 blurt out.

“Have you been punished then?”

“Yes… According to your way of thinking, I’ve been punished. It’s a way of saying it. But tell me, Big Shoes, how does autumn ahead look like? You know that ants shut ourselves up at the end of it and don’t go back outside until spring.”

“I don’t know what to say. I had never talked to an ant before.”

“Let’s see, let’s see… Now you won’t tell me you’re shy, will you? Tell me about daily life. Is unemployment still so high? Will there finally be a referendum in Catalonia? Do you expect a very cold winter?”

“What is that to you? All those things don’t have to do with you at all.”

“Don’t they? They have to do with me more than you think. You still don’t understand you live in a globalised world and everything has its influence on the rest of the world. Oh, human beings!”

“Don’t tell me that or else I will believe it.”

“If unemployment continues to be high, there will be more people who will sit on benches to eat sunflower seeds and, as you may know, that is one of the main foodstuffs in our diet. On the other hand, human walk more and cause more vibrations in our homes. Do you get it?”

“And what about the Catalonian issue,” I dared to ask.

“The Catalonian issue, as you call it, is something serious. If things are carried to their ultimate consequences, let’s say it smoothly, our communities could suffer serious transformations and disasters. Don’t forget that the ground is our home. As for the cold, I’ll tell you that it’s very important to us, because it has an influence on the quantity of food we should collect and the fuel we’ll need to use and… well, a lot of other things that you don’t really get to unders…”

 “1808! 1808!”

“Yuck, there comes the telltale. Off I go! Goodbye, see you soon!”