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Subrosa

Subrosa

San Francisco, CA
July 2004

MAY 06, 2007 07:08 PM



Are you sure you want to go on? Are you sure? OK, then. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

OK, I’ll admit. I don’t like bugs. It’s not that I have a problem with them in general. I’ll squish a spider in the corner or clean up an ant trial without a problem. But, for whatever reason, I can’t stand the thought of bugs crawling on me when I sleep. For example, I practically tore my mattress apart after reading this article a few weeks back about the bedbug comeback across the country.

Bedbugs have been found in moving vans, public transit seat cushions, airplanes, college dorms and even a Bay Area meditation retreat. They spread by hitching a ride on your clothes or in your luggage and crawling off to infest your home or apartment building.

Nearly 300 bedbug infestations were reported to San Francisco health officials in 2006, more than double the number in 2004. Most of the cases involved travelers discovering bedbugs in upscale hotels.

The size and shape of a lentil, bedbugs lay eggs during the day and hide in your bed, clothing and light sockets. At night, they suck your blood, leaving itchy bumps on your skin and little bloody excretions on your sheets. They don't pass diseases, but they are incredibly difficult to exterminate, even following their blood hosts who move to new apartments trying to get away.


Gah. It makes my skin crawl just thinking about little bugs feeding on me while I sleep at night. Plus, I’m kind of neurotic so for the next week every little zit or ingrown hair was a bedbug infestation. Eventually I calmed down, but it took a great deal of booze and a shot of NyQuil or two to get me to sleep for that first couple of days. Hey, I never said I didn't have issues.

Which is why I fucking hate the fact that I just read this article. Good fucking lord.

What began as a faint popping in a 9-year-old boy's ear — "like Rice Krispies" — ended up as an earache, and the doctor's diagnosis was that a pair of spiders made a home in the ear.

"They were walking on my eardrums," Jesse Courtney said.

One of the spiders was still alive after the doctor flushed the fourth-grader's left ear canal. His mother, Diane Courtney, said her son insisted he kept hearing a faint popping in his ear — "like Rice Krispies."

Dr. David Irvine said it looked like the boy had something in his ear when he examined him.

When he irrigated the ear, the first spider came out, dead. The other spider took a second dousing before it emerged, still alive. Both were about the size of a pencil eraser.


Fucking spiders. In his fucking ear. Two of them! Great. It’s like the news is trying to make sure I have a nervous breakdown before the month is over.

One thing’s for sure, little Jesse Courtney handled the situation a lot better than I would have. I’m pretty sure I would have just gone ahead and shot myself in the face.

Jesse was given the spiders — now both dead — as a souvenir. He has taken them to school and his mother has taken them to work.

Valeyard

Valeyard

Shreveport, LA
January 2005

MAY 06, 2007 07:15 PM

...that's fucking disgusting! puke

Girthy

Girthy

Canoga Park, CA
July 2005

MAY 06, 2007 07:22 PM

I had a bug in my ear once.

It fuckin' sucked.

catdad

catdad

Portland, OR
August 2002

MAY 06, 2007 07:22 PM

It's still better than a vampire or zombie infestation. Count your blessings.

skanthony

skanthony

USA
September 2006

MAY 06, 2007 07:29 PM

Im in bed right now. I think im going to go sleep in the bathtub....with the shower running....and ear and nose plugs in....oh god.

StarBelliedBoy

StarBelliedBoy

Philadelphia, PA
December 2003

MAY 06, 2007 07:30 PM

OH MY GOD. I'm freaking out!

Oz_the_Vamp

Oz_the_Vamp

Lorain, OH
June 2005

MAY 06, 2007 07:30 PM

The average person eats 3 to 4 spiders every year...

SPOILERS! (Click to view)

... in their sleep!

KorbenDallas

KorbenDallas

Qatar
January 2005

MAY 06, 2007 07:31 PM

Oh there ain't no bugs on me There ain't no bugs on me There may be bugs on some of you mugs But there ain't no bugs on me.

Subrosa

Subrosa

San Francisco, CA
July 2004

MAY 06, 2007 07:32 PM

vampozman said:
The average person eats 3 to 4 spiders every year...

SPOILERS! (Click to view)

... in their sleep!



Untrue!

Nice try, though.

JekyllAndHyde

JekyllAndHyde

Austin, TX
April 2005

MAY 06, 2007 07:33 PM

Damn it, one of these days I really will learn to heed warning titles like this one....

But that kid fucking rules.

cupcakeOdoom

cupcakeOdoom

USA
March 2006

MAY 06, 2007 07:38 PM

agenda for tonight:

a) wash sheets. 7 times.
b) rid the house of rice krispies.
c) invest in some spider-proof earmuffs.

Naville

Naville

SUICIDEGIRL

New York, USA

MAY 06, 2007 07:38 PM

ew. ive already had experience with bedbugs but this is just ewww. puke

soft_shoulder

soft_shoulder

Madison, WI
May 2006

MAY 06, 2007 07:39 PM

Rice Crispy Spiders. I hate bugs, reading about this doesn't bother me at all. Now if you had included photos of any bug or spider Id be sick. Now I feel itchy all over. YUCK!

Subrosa

Subrosa

San Francisco, CA
July 2004

MAY 06, 2007 07:40 PM

soft_shoulder said:
Rice Crispy Spiders. I hate bugs, reading about this doesn't bother me at all. Now if you had included photos of any bug or spider Id be sick. Now I feel itchy all over. YUCK!



I warned you people!

I warned you!

Alecks

Alecks

Visalia, CA
October 2004

MAY 06, 2007 07:47 PM

took unwanted hosts for show and tell? where the hell are these people from?!?

i did wake up the other day with what looked like a cricket with no legs on my lower lip the other night

rest assured i was awake for 2 days

this article however does not dispell me from wanting to see Spiderman 3

=-> Alecks

starbuck42

starbuck42

I'm lost
February 2007

MAY 06, 2007 07:49 PM

Subrosa said:
I warned you people!

I warned you!


If only I had listened. Dammit!

BrightRedScream

BrightRedScream

Stoney Creek, ON
April 2005

MAY 06, 2007 07:49 PM

*cries*

Necia

Necia

San Francisco, CA
August 2005

MAY 06, 2007 07:51 PM

"It was real interesting, 'cause, two spiders in my ear _ what next?" Jesse said.



Ah-hahaha! I really like that kid.

But omgz, that's disgusting. The fact that he heard them moving is by far the worst part. *shudders*

be_elzebe

be_elzebe

China
May 2006

MAY 06, 2007 08:03 PM

Oh man, that's just awful.

Did you hear about the kid in Britan who had a hornet lodged in his inner ear?


"All of a sudden he started screaming hysterically and saying 'it's eating me, it's eating me'.



Poor kid started bashing his head onto the dashboard of his mom's car. The doctors did get it out, but the boy's "inner ear and eardrum were riddled with bites and stings from the insect."

terrifying.

Tea

Tea

SUICIDEGIRL

Ontario, Canada

MAY 06, 2007 08:07 PM

like a month ago i had this weird constant ringing in my ear and i came across a few articles like that so i convinced myself it was a spider. it turned out to be hearing loss.

d_day

d_day

San Bernardino, CA
July 2002

MAY 06, 2007 08:10 PM

oyaji said:
Did anyone else think of this scene from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan:



?



I thought of this...

Valeyard

Valeyard

Shreveport, LA
January 2005

MAY 06, 2007 08:11 PM

So creepy....it reminds me of those weird space spiders from the Lost in Space movie eeek

GlassHeart

GlassHeart

USA
January 2004

MAY 06, 2007 08:15 PM

You are such a pussy, Subrosa!

SPOILERS! (Click to view)

Just imagine what else is out to get you....







SPOILERS! (Click to view)
I'll be stealing some from lab for my next visit to your apartment!

Kristie

Kristie

Chicago, IL
December 2004

MAY 06, 2007 08:17 PM

Ok, I stopped reading when I got to the bedbugs. I have a feeling I made the right decision.

Subrosa

Subrosa

San Francisco, CA
July 2004

MAY 06, 2007 08:20 PM

GlassHeart said:
You are such a pussy, Subrosa!

SPOILERS! (Click to view)

Just imagine what else is out to get you....







SPOILERS! (Click to view)
I'll be stealing some from lab for my next visit to your apartment!



I can totally handle those things, so long as they don't crawl on me while I sleep.

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