If I hear another fucking bed bug story I'm going to run down the street screaming like a banshee.

[live love laugh]

For the few moments that I watch teevee in the morning I heard nothing but stories on the major networks about bed bugs. I stop at my mom's on the way home and she has Brian Wms. on and what is he talking about? I turn on the radio and what do I hear? Apparently there's a BED BUG problem and there are all kinds of steamers and plastic bags that you can buy to thwart them off. There's a fucking bed bug convention going on now did you know that? :eyes: The economy might recover based on the burgeoning bed bug industry alone if things keep going in this direction.

I'm giving it one more chance but if I wake up tomorrow morning and hear this shit again, I'm out the door...

[Blue Owl]

1. It's the Tom Ridge/Duct Tape effect

Fearmongering for profit!

[DevonRex]

2. Did I ever tell you about the time that bed bugs infested a hotel in...

:evilgrin:

Now you have to run down the street screaming like a banshee.

[live love laugh]

3. Bwahaaahaaaaa....LMAO. DEVIL!!!! nt

[TexasObserver]

4. You're not itching to hear another one?!

[Booster]

5. I think you're just looking for an excuse to run down the street

screaming like a banshee (probably naked too), Ooooh, that sounds like fun.

[live love laugh]

7. Believe me, I'll do anything to avoid unnecessary exercise. LOL nt

[tuckessee]

6. Well, they do suck..... n/t

[Skink]

8. just now this huge bed bug flew up hit the ceiling and crashed to the floor.

it was cool.

[Systematic Chaos]

10. Yeah right.

They don't fly, except maybe to try and crawl up your wall and land on you from up on the ceiling, but they usually prefer the most direct route.

The biggest ones are just under a quarter inch long.

So much for THAT story.

[hfojvt]

9. kindergarten

Must resist urge to google bed bugs and post a link here

Must resist.

http://www.kansascity.com/2010/09/21/2241889/hundreds-gather-near-chicago-for.html


Damn. Another failure.

Must resist urge to search youtube for videos about bed bugs


Must.

Resist.


Wait for it.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6UXcjblmHU


Suddenly there is a knock at the door.

My shipment of fail has just arrived.



Charlie Brown: Sally is really freaked out about starting kindergarten. I bet if somebody said 'kindergarten' to her, she would jump twenty feet in the air.

Lucy (walks over to Sally): Kindergarten.

Sally; aaaaaaaaaaauuuuugggghhhh.

Lucy: I knew you were exxagerating. That's only 15 feet.

[Bryn]

11. I apologize having to do this:

[rabs]

12. It's the Tea Party

:-)

(edit -- typo)

[Bryn]

14. LOL

This is funny! Ha! :D

[Jamastiene]

13. It is such a bullshit "news" story.

Bedbugs have been around forever. They act like this is something new. Damn, turn the A/C off and let the house get to a good 120 degrees for a few hours, and they are gone. How fucking hard is that?

It certainly does not merit all this much attention.

K and R to infinity.

[Bitwit1234]

15. All you have to do to kill them and keep them away is

steam steam steam. Just run steam around the edge of the mattress and pillows. I never find anything but it cleans and refreshes the mattress anyway.

[Bitwit1234]

16. PS If you don't have a steam cleaner use your iron.

I saw someone on TV using the steam iron with the steam coming out going around the mattress.

[joshcryer]

17. Don't worry, you'll have a story to tell all on your own.

I expect you have them already.

[live love laugh]

22. I'd much rather hear your first-hand account. Do tell. nt

[smalll]

18. I blame the hipsters, and their "couch-surfing" --

They'd rather spend their trust funds on PBRs at the right bars, and on heirloom locally-sourced sustanable organic arugula than on, ahem NEW MATTRESSES and/or APARTMENTS that aren't permanent welcome mats for the latest Josh and/or Megan who comes out to Billyburg from Ohio?

Sayin'! :shrug:

[stray cat]

19. Maybe you can experience it for yourself - first hand experience beats hearing about it anyday

[LWolf]

20. I was thinking the same thing a few weeks ago, and

then it seemed to die down. Except when your OP appeared on the front page of GD, lol.

[seabeyond]

21. remember when the killer bees were coming for us. maybe a decade ago. ah

the scary

[live love laugh]

23. I forgot about the bees--I was too traumatized by the sharks. nt

[seabeyond]

27. bah haha. i think the same thing about the virus's that are going to take us all down. nt

[madokie]

24. I hope you don't trip and fall down and skin a knee or an elbow

Just had to say that, sorry ;-)

You know why they have those stories on so much don't you, well I'll tell you. Those stories like that take up time, time they could, if they wanted to be telling us, the real news or whats really happening in the world or neighborhood whichever applies.

[live love laugh]

25. I know the real reason for the bed bug stories and that's why it drives me so crazy. nt

[madokie]

26. Okie Dokie

Then I'll admit It drives me up a wall too. :hi: