The monkeys!

"¡1808!, ¡1808! Where are you? 1808! Where are youuuuu?? Hey, 1808!! Hey!! Ant!”

"What's the matter? Why are you making all that noise? A respectable ant like me can't have a proper siesta with all that noise. For God's sake! What a world we live in!"

"Siesta? You... were you having a siesta?  Who's the lazybones now?"

"It's OK, it's ok, Javier. Following the conversation we had the other day I proposed siesta in the Ant's Nest Committee on Productivity and, after trying it out for some days, siesta has proven to increase productivity, so it has become mandatory in all out ant's nests."

"And... Is there anything you'd like to say about that, 1808?"

"Yes. Yes, OK. I am really sorry, Javier. I apologise for calling you a lazybones.  Thank you for your idea."

"We are so silly and so primitive, aren't we?"

"Sometimes you just have to be right, it's pure statistics."

"Hahahaha.  1808 having a siesta! It's incredible. The non-stop-working ant sleeps!"

"It's enough, Javier. And now, tell me, why were you calling me so persistently?"

"I just wanted to tell you that I've heard on the news that some scientists have discovered that dogs recognise some words and can identify the human tones of voice."

"Hahaha. Now I'm the one who laughs. It's been a little hard for you, don't you think?"

"What do you mean?"

"Oh, nothing, nothing."

"C'mon, tell me!"

"Well, Javier, You are the most developmentally delayed and boastful species on Earth.  You never stop looking at yourselves and you are the only species on Earth that endangers its own environment. Do you think it's a minor thing?"

"Of course not, 1808. You are completely right, both as an ant and as a human"

"Do you know something, Javier? The last ones to develop an alphabet and a communication system were the primates."

"The primates?"

 "Yes, the monkeys! The monkeys! You, the monkeys!"

"Oh, my, 1808!"

"Take it and lump it! Next time you'd better not spoil my siesta."

*Note: this conversation is the second part of the conversation that started in the previous post.

Traductora: Virginia Ruiz