bingie
Well-Known Member
A fun story...
:brick:
:zipit:
When I was on the international program, i found bed bugs in my apartment.
I was seeing someone at the time, and she would wake up in the morning will red bumps all over her, and they were itchy. My roomate and I however, didn't have any bumps.
So one day, in the afternoon i'm sitting on my bed (with a brown comforter) and i see a little bug next to me... i squish it and blood comes out.
So i did some research and it suggested bed bugs. I took my sheets off the bed, and lifted the mattresses up....
.... And there were hundreads of bed bugs along the mattress frame, in the box spring, under my mattress pad, along the baseboards, beind the posters and pictures on the walls, on my clothing in the closed and along the molding by the ceiling. Same was true for my roomates bed. But out of the three bedrooms in the apartment, only mine was infected.
So, i called the front desk - exterminators showed up. We washed all the bed sheets, they threw out the beds and sprayed the walls. Replaced the beds and we moved on.
Two weeks later the bugs were back. If i was to go into the room at 3am (during their feeding time) and haul back the covers with a flashlight, i would see them in the sheets. They would also be on the walls. One day on the bus to Epcot, one crawled out from the crotch of my costume... :hurl:
So, eventually i had to move. I was never bitten, but i didn't like being one of the guys with bed bugs.
When I moved, it took me a week to move all my stuff just 2 houses down. Why? Because i laundered every article of clothing and nearly burnt them to a crisp in the dryer, i clean and checked every book, dvd, poster that i had. I purchased all new bedding. I lived in my next single bedroom apartment for a year with no bugs.
My roomate who also moved out simply moved. He brought the bugs with him. He didn't move with me.
The apartment is obvisously still infected. It will always be. They would need to fumigate (or use those big heaters) the whole building at once, and throw out all the couches, carpet and beds. That might work, but they need the space.
So, i got to learn alot about bed bugs. Some of them hide. Some don't. You squish them and blood comes out. They don't care if they are sprayed with bug spray. They only bite some people. They can jump on your clothes and travel with you.
I thankfully didn't take them anywhere.
But it has absolutly nothing to do with how clean you are. Just how stupid you are when you move apartments
.
:brick:
:zipit:
When I was on the international program, i found bed bugs in my apartment.
I was seeing someone at the time, and she would wake up in the morning will red bumps all over her, and they were itchy. My roomate and I however, didn't have any bumps.
So one day, in the afternoon i'm sitting on my bed (with a brown comforter) and i see a little bug next to me... i squish it and blood comes out.
So i did some research and it suggested bed bugs. I took my sheets off the bed, and lifted the mattresses up....
.... And there were hundreads of bed bugs along the mattress frame, in the box spring, under my mattress pad, along the baseboards, beind the posters and pictures on the walls, on my clothing in the closed and along the molding by the ceiling. Same was true for my roomates bed. But out of the three bedrooms in the apartment, only mine was infected.
So, i called the front desk - exterminators showed up. We washed all the bed sheets, they threw out the beds and sprayed the walls. Replaced the beds and we moved on.
Two weeks later the bugs were back. If i was to go into the room at 3am (during their feeding time) and haul back the covers with a flashlight, i would see them in the sheets. They would also be on the walls. One day on the bus to Epcot, one crawled out from the crotch of my costume... :hurl:
So, eventually i had to move. I was never bitten, but i didn't like being one of the guys with bed bugs.
When I moved, it took me a week to move all my stuff just 2 houses down. Why? Because i laundered every article of clothing and nearly burnt them to a crisp in the dryer, i clean and checked every book, dvd, poster that i had. I purchased all new bedding. I lived in my next single bedroom apartment for a year with no bugs.
My roomate who also moved out simply moved. He brought the bugs with him. He didn't move with me.
The apartment is obvisously still infected. It will always be. They would need to fumigate (or use those big heaters) the whole building at once, and throw out all the couches, carpet and beds. That might work, but they need the space.
So, i got to learn alot about bed bugs. Some of them hide. Some don't. You squish them and blood comes out. They don't care if they are sprayed with bug spray. They only bite some people. They can jump on your clothes and travel with you.
I thankfully didn't take them anywhere.
But it has absolutly nothing to do with how clean you are. Just how stupid you are when you move apartments
.
Also, the money we save will go right into the kids college funds.
