The condition of this motel bed in Maryland is quite surprising.

All i can think: thank god it wasn’t bed bugs.

Even bed bugs have standards

So all I have to do is soak my mattress with various bodily fluids and I’ll be bedbug free forever? Be right back!

They tried to live there but couldn’t survive in the STD soaked mattress

That’s what I was thinking. The whole time I expected them to uncover a sheet and see a whole sheet of bed bugs or something. When you expect that, the rest of it is a lot more relieving to see lol

Yep, someone was definitely relieving themselves on it.

My thoughts exactly. A bed bug infestation is so much worse than stains and yuck. Bed bugs will give you ptsd, least that’s what happened to me,

I never knew bed bugs were a real thing until I moved to the east coast, but man, watching some of my friends who have gone through it is rough. It’s legitimately traumatic. Plus all our friends have to basically shun whoever has them.

Bed bugs are absolute hell. I once had to live in a literal flea and bedbug infested room and mattress (fleas were from a literal hellbeast of a cat named Nightmare who refused to come out of the box spring for days and would literally try to kill you if you tried), and I woke up every morning in absolute agony for the rest of the day. So many itchy bite marks covering me from chest down, it was absolutely monstrous, damn near drove me mad after weeks of dealing with this. I still shudder to even remember it, and to this day I am haunted by those weeks, and so now I regularly check mattresses at least as thoroughly as the fellas in the video. Lesson learned: Don’t do drugs, kids. You’ll give up all standards for yourself in search of just another high, until you find yourself nodding off, high on pills, in a bedbug and flea infested shithole–and you’ll be in there nodding off with a smile and feeling *good* about it, because hey at least I got my fix and was high. Who needs anything else? Ugh, the shame I feel at my younger years is larger than the pacific ocean garbage island. Never Again. 7 years clean, 2/16/2018.

sir, here is to the next 7 years, and then times 10. may temptation never find fruitful ground.

10 years clean here. Kind of. Still take methadone. I’m reaching the point of my life that I’m scared if I don’t do something drastic I’ll still be stuck in this hole I’ve dug for myself.

Excellent work! 15 months here.

I had them, it cost me $4k to kill them.

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I bought the heaters and did it myself. They never came back but just in case I’m ready for another attack.

Jesus fucking christ. Living in New York is absolutely terrifying with those things hanging over our heads. Worst part is, there’s nothing you can do to 100% prevent them.

Get a mattress cover designed for them that zips all the way around. Stops them from getting into the mattress and eventually suffocates any that might be in there. Best thing you can do for peace of mind, especially in an apartment building.

Tell me you’ve never had bed bugs without telling me you’ve never had bed bugs.

I was watching this on mute just waiting for them to peel back the sheets and reveal the mattress to be more bug than bed

As weird as it sounds, As long as they washed the sheets and what not, I’m not overly concerned about the mattress. That said you can have the most lilywhite room in the world if there’s a bedbug in there, I’m incinerating it all. There’s a clear tradeoff here.

> I’m not overly concerned about the mattress. I mean, you do you fam, but that bed was SOAKED in piss.

It could just as well have been a spilled glass of water. If it was piss, they would’ve smelled it.

>they would’ve smelled it. Not always, especially when it’s still soaked. (I have kids) Still, I don’t care if it’s water, piss, or Crystal Pepsi. I’m not paying to sleep in it.

I’ll let *you* test it out.

Rather not, but thanks for the offer

Unless they were really hydrated, which would also explain the massive volume of piss.

Spilled glasses of water don’t leave pee rings.

No but spilled water can cause what look like piss rings because it lifts the years of dirt buildup to resettle in a similar way.

If I’m traveling and exhausted, fuck it, I’ll sleep in piss. It’s just piss. Protect your bits, eyes, and mouth, take a shower in the morning, flee into the sunrise and try to forget. If you’re roadtripping on a budget, or going through developing countries, you learn to lower your expectations. Bedbugs don’t rinse off in the shower, they’re coming with you.

Funny, I used to have to stay at motels once a month for my old job. I was paranoid about bedbugs to the point I switched all my bed linens to “lily white” just to make it easier to see the signs if I ever brought home a “hitchhiker”………..excuse me while I go into the fetal position for a while….