Today, while working the graveyard shift at my hotel, it felt a little chilly, so I grabbed a blanket out of the box we usually store old blankets in. Twenty minutes later, the live-in maintenance man casually remarked that those blankets are all infected with bed-bugs. FML
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Today, one of my employees called in after his 8-hour shift, explaining that he had bed bugs at home, found one on his shirt, and thinks they are in the store. I own a mattress shop. They'd spread. FML
Today, after being moved to three different employer-provided apartments because they all had mold and electrical problems, I requested a bigger bed. The bed they delivered had bedbugs. FML
Today, three days after finally having a bed to sleep on, I woke up with multiple bedbug bites. I can't use my blankets, wear any of my clothes and it's back to sleeping on the floor for me. FML
Today, I was training a new volunteer at a clothing donation center. While explaining how to sort donations, I reached into a garbage bag full of clothes and something on my hand caught my eye. It was a bed bug. The bag was full of them and they sought refuge up my arm. FML
Today, I discovered that my bed has a flea infestation. I discovered it after sleeping naked in it for about an hour. FML
Today, the weird receptionist at the hotel I'm staying at asked me if I needed an extra blanket because I "looked cold in my sleep last night". FML
Today, I woke up to something crawling on my leg. Thinking it might be a spider, I jumped out frantically to check. The good news: it's not a spider. The bad news: it's a bedbug. My apartment was just treated for them. FML
Today, after three visits from exterminators and another from a steam cleaner, I still have bedbugs. FML
Today, I discovered I have bed bugs. I have nowhere else to sleep and I won't be able to afford a new mattress for at least a year. I'd better get used to these giant welts. FML
Today, while visiting my grandparents, I used one of their blankets to keep warm. Later, I saw their dog getting busy with said blanket. When my grandparents saw my look of horror, they explained that he has "sexual relations" with the blanket every night. Thanks for telling me, guys. FML
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softrally 15
They should've marked the box! You should definitely go take a shower and wash your clothes in hot water before it gets any worse.
Bakarra 22
You'd think your hotel would throw those out, sentimental I guess?
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Comments (64)
Druu 53
Work is a bITCH
Pleonasm 35
It really bites. If it felt a little nippy in your workplace before, one can only how you must be ticked off now. I guess now you have to chill, and try not to think of all all those little buggers lest it make your skin crawl, OP.
BauerMegan 31
Pleo proof read!
1217jonathan 15
Haha that has to suck
LeFrogDog 27
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RockySnakes 10
that would of really bugged me ;)
softrally 15
would've*
hienzburgess 9
would have***
softrally 15
They should've marked the box! You should definitely go take a shower and wash your clothes in hot water before it gets any worse.
KiddoKS 19
I'm pretty sure the whole place is infested anyway. Bedbugs have been known to crawl in and out of spaces as tiny as light switches. Having the blanket directly on is definitely gross, but who thought putting them in a box would do the trick?
BntyHntrSeattle 30
Burn everything you own. Everything. o_O
tjv3 10
I want to know the name of the place do I don't stay there
OliveCx 10
Someone really should have put a sign on that box with a warning or put them in a separate box :L sorry OP, that really sucks.
MrsPegg 45
Or had them bagged and cleaned properly in the first place. Gross!
Bakarra 22
You'd think your hotel would throw those out, sentimental I guess?
Bakarra 22
Or maybe they were under attack by PETA... "You can't throw out those bed bugs! They're animals too! They have feeeeelings!"
nicolemadden 11
Or simply saving money not to buy new ones..
Bakarra 22
How are they saving money? It says he got it out a box for old blankets, if they're in a seperate box than the other blankets then they're probably not being used
Nysha 17
But they can probably be disinfected, cleaned, and then put back into use. They may just be saving them up because it's cheaper to disinfect them in batches.
bamagrl410 31
27 Letting blankets that bed bugs are in sit around a hotel is stupid, period. It's not like they'll stay in the box with those blankets. They could end up migrating somewhere in the hotel, and then it is not just a few blankets to disinfect, it's an entire hotel to exterminate. Letting them accrue and cleaning them in batches would only lead to the possibility of much larger expenses later on.
tariqqq 9
Im before " bugging"puns
Bakarra 22
Man that didn't make any sense...you should probably just bug out now...
hooligyn123 18
come on #9, don't let #7's comment crawl under your skin, just ignore it if it bugs you.
Bakarra 22
I just thought he was being a bugger is all
Zeke10 12
Did that bug you out?
Cazz91 21
"Good night, sleep tight. Don't let the bed bugs bite!"
SasaCeceGogo 18
Good night, sleep tight, I hope the bed bugs don't bite! I'm really sorry OP. They should've labelled the thing.
MissWhitneyB 17
Who keeps sheets covered in bed bugs? Smh. :( I feel sorry for you Op
byron17 26
..ones that are in a box to be sent off to decontamination?? **Facepalm**
firechicky 12
You can decontaminate them by putting them through the dryer. Why not do that immediately?
amDes 11
obviously no one understands how hard it is to get rid of bed bugs... its not just the sheets, its EVERYWHERE!