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
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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
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, my wife’s unending cheapness and need for a “deal” has bitten us in the ass. Literally. She accepted a bag of clothes from a coworker and yup, you guessed it, it was infested with fucking bedbugs. Now our whole house has them, and all she said was, “At least the clothes can be washed.” FML
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, I discovered that my bed has a flea infestation. I discovered it after sleeping naked in it for about an hour. FML
Today, while bringing boxes up from the basement, I noticed a few spider egg sacs had stuck to my shirt. As I desperately tried to remove them, they hatched. FML
Today, I woke up and saw a piece of black fuzz on my shirt. I tried to pick it off but it crawled into my hand and stabbed my skin with its sharp legs. I screamed like a little girl because I had a centipede on me. FML
Today, after finally going to therapy for anxiety like everyone wanted, I discovered the itching feeling that kept me awake at night was actually caused by a bedbug infestation. FML
Today, I was sleeping in my bed when I felt an itch on my arm. Then another. Then another. I finally looked to see what was going on, only to find a bunch of ants crawling in my bed. They were somehow getting in through the closed window. Guess I’m done sleeping tonight. 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
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Top comments
cacheson 42
Do not go into your own home again until you’ve thoroughly cleaned up somewhere else. And the clothes you’re wearing are dead now, they’re never coming back.
MissMizery 19
Burn the bag.
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MissMizery 19
Burn the bag.
interesting33 37
and the arm
StagGT 13
and the donation center
cacheson 42
Do not go into your own home again until you’ve thoroughly cleaned up somewhere else. And the clothes you’re wearing are dead now, they’re never coming back.
RichardPencil 32
Can customers buy the bedbugs at the standard 25 cents per pound, or are they marked separately? Thrift store shoppers need to know!
bluhbluhbluh 14
I'm free in about 2 hours if you'd like me to remove the offensive arm.
Lobby_Bee 18
All they want is just a bed to sleep.
PenguinPal3017 19
Bed bugs are one of my worst fears.
WHSKitty 7
This is precisely why I absolutely refuse to shop or even step into ANY thrift store anymore.I am absolutely petrified of bugs, especially...
thatslifeiguess7 16
Neem oil 12 drops rubbing alcohol 1 bottle Downey 1 cup mix in a spray bottle and spray your car, your house and furniture. wash any clothes in hot water and neem oil. it smells awful but works take neem oil and shampoo and bathe with it good luck I use to clean hotels
WHSKitty 7
You’re crazy, if you think that works. To permanently obliterate these terrors, USEA PRO SERVICE THAT USES HEAT.
WHSKitty 7
Otherwise you can also throw all items that that you’rewearing - shoes, too - in the dryer, high heat.e
GMSP 18
At least you didn't lose your job because of your boss' son... Wait, you aren't that guy too are you?
FishyFishy 12
What ever you do DO NOT let the bed bugs bite!!!
Donut_Wizard 23
Could have been worse. It could have been Nickleback.