It’s not just Paris. There’s a "global resurgence" of bedbugs.

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It’s not just Paris. There’s a "global resurgence" of bedbugs.
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It’s a bedbug’s world now. We’re just sleeping in it.

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I was driving through Maryland, it was getting late, and I saw a hotel that was $45 per night. I literally thought to myself, "WTF, I just need a bed, how much could really go wrong if I stay here."

The room opened straight to the parking lot, and there were cats everywhere outside crying. I said hello to one of them, he was clearly in bad shape and so I went and got some cat food and invited him in and gave him some food. He bit me so I put him back outside and went to sleep.

I was most of the way on the drive home when I noticed I had red welts in a little line down my arm. You fucker, you have to be kidding me.

I basically stripped in the parking lot of my place, went in and took a long shower first thing, and put into the garbage all the clothes I'd had with me, suitcase, shoes, my backpack after taking the computer and notebook out. I put them all in a trash bag in the parking lot and then threw it in a dumpster that wasn't near any residence. Then I vacuumed my car and took a long shower again.

Fuckin bedbugs. I had no bedbugs carried back to my place after that and that's how I like it. $45 for the hotel cost me maybe $300 worth of stuff that I decided to get rid of.

The one time I encountered bedbugs was also a cheap ass motel. Wtf was I thinking? Never again.

At least I don't ever have to worry if there is an infestation. I'll know. Some people apparently don't get the red welts?

Fucking bed bugs, indeed. I wouldn't wish them on my worst enemy except maybe Putin.

They literally cost our entire Spring in tearing our house apart to address them. So much shit moved, tossed out, cleaned, then cleaned again... No idea where they even came from.

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