Things that frustrate us all
- Thread starter rhubarbodendron
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I've read that you can get bed bugs from articles (of clothing) that you buy online. Since these articles come from who knows where there are countless ways that these could get infected. Then once you open the package these bugs get to all your clothing including your bed sheets and I don't need to tell you how hard it is then to get rid of them.
When we moved from are old house to get away from the bed bugs we ended up leaving over half of are stuff behind and tossed are clothes. We even tossed the very clothes on our backs and took a shower the moment we moved in and had someone take the old clothes out to the trash while in the shower. This is hard to do when you are also poor and don't have tons of money to replace things.
Jason
It was. It was literally one of the worst moments in my life along with everyone else who lived their like my mom and sister and her kids. It even got to a point where I would sit on tarp covered couch because they couldn't crawl up it. No matter how much we would spray they would never all die. I still kind of freak out anytime I even see a black spot or some other bug because I fear having to live like that again. I don't know if you can get PSD from bugs but I feel like we have it.
Jason
Do you mean post-traumatic stress syndrome?
I get that from lawyers. I had a very bad experience and each time I see one now I get flashbacks!
Some time ago, a cricket was keeping me awake at night. I went outside, traced the sound to a spot at the base of the property fence, and applied a good shpritz of bug spray. "Chirp! . . . Chirp . . . ch-i-i-i-r-r-p . . ." Then blessed silence.
It's supposed to be bad luck to kill a cricket. Well, it was bad luck for that goddamn noisy cricket!
As for bed bugs, I had them a couple of years ago. Bed bugs are external parasites -- they suck blood, and are attracted to any warm-blooded creature. They can hitch a ride on anything that comes into the house -- secondhand furniture, rugs, pets and people. The little suckers are so tiny that you usually won't notice them until they've made themselves at home and started breeding.
When you've got bed bugs, don't fool around with amateur remedies. Call the professionals. Eliminate as much clutter as you can and launder all your bed and bath linen in hot water.
Fortunately, a reputable exterminator was able to eliminate the bed bugs and I haven't seen them since. (I still believe the apartment next door had them first and gave them to me, but that's moot. It's like trying to trace who gave whom a sexually transmitted disease.)
Years ago, my company used UNIX workstations due to the requirements of the CAD system. One function that the stress analysts used often was to log into other less-used computers to run batch jobs. I had set up a script that would briefly log into someone else's computer and play a cricket sound. Since the CPU was usually set up under people's desks, I could drive people crazy trying to find the cricket, especially if I sent it to different computers! Most of the older engineers weren't too UNIX-savvy, so I could get away with it easily.
Really wish I could do that now, but it's just not possible with the current Windows machines (at least not easily), plus most people have headphones plugged in or the sound turned off anyway.
Yeah, I truly hate that!
I apologize for my insensitivity Jason, I did not stop to consider that someone may actually have suffered through what I was writing as a joke.
I was attempting to express how the information Discofan presented made me feel suddenly very icky. Probably two thirds of the clothes I currently own were purchased online, so it sent a shiver down my spine to think of it as being a transmitter of bed bugs. I am very sorry you had this experience and can only hope that nothing like it has ever happened, nor will ever happen to you again.
It's okay. I never get offended with humor unless someone is doing it with a mean heart. Heck I made the joke about fly genocide. Partly because I just wanted to get a Husnok reference in.
Jason
I am glad you were not offended. I found your Husnock reference very funny. I felt ultimately that you might end up regretting it almost as much as Kevin Uxbridge.
One of my first jobs was as an assistant for an insurance adjuster. We would go through properties from fire loss and inventory all the items that would need to be considered for the claim. It was so very sad to see how people have suddenly lost everything. I was not able to stay at that job for very long. I suddenly feel very ashamed for letting myself take my possessions for granted like that.
One of my first jobs was as an assistant for an insurance adjuster. We would go through properties from fire loss and inventory all the items that would need to be considered for the claim. It was so very sad to see how people have suddenly lost everything. I was not able to stay at that job for very long. I suddenly feel very ashamed for letting myself take my possessions for granted like that.
What sort of shoes? Beeswax would waterproof a lot of materials.
Ordinary Leather shoes, conventional ones.
I'll try the beeswax thing, next chance I get.
I've worked in a leather shoe shop before; ordinary means nothing, haha.
Laces, if so how many holes, slip-ons? What color leather? Do you know the kind of leather it is?